Forever Badgers
Endowments
Forever Badgers is the University of Wisconsin Athletics
endowment program. Endowments are invested funds that
annually support student-athlete scholarships.
The Cost of Excellence
• For the 2012-13 athletic season,
66 percent of Badger studentathletes on scholarship came
from out of state
• Wisconsin Athletics annually
funds $10.5 million in studentathlete scholarships
• As of September 2012, the Wisconsin Athletic endowment was
valued at $40 million; generating more than $1 million annually in spendable income
• Annual fund gifts are combined
with the spendable income from
endowed funds to meet the
scholarship needs of the department
Four new endowments
In addition to the 161 established endowed funds, Wisconsin Athletics is proud to
announce the establishment of
four new endowed scholarship
funds in 2012.
• David and Joy Amundson
Scholarship Fund
• Capital Times Scholarship Fund
• Curt and Sue Culver Golf
Scholarship
• Robert J. and Vera K. Wilson
Fund for Student Athletics
Women's rower Kendall Schmidt, with
Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez,
was a speaker at the 2012 Endowment
Donor Appreciation luncheon.
