GOAL LINE GIVING DRIVE
HELP US PUNCH IT INTO THE ENDZONE
Gryphon Football is on a quest to provide our Gryphons with the best student-athlete experience possible. A world-class education coupled with an elite athletic experience will allow them to develop into the leaders our country needs.
To recruit and retain these young men, we need to build a support system that allows them to grow, prosper, and reach their full potential.
Through the generosity of our alumni, parents and supporters, we continue to invest in our program. From building the finest facilities in the country to making certain our student-athletes
have the necessary support services around them; we ensure that their mental health, strength and conditioning and academic needs are met. You, our alumni, parents, and supporters, have made us leaders in giving our student-athletes the tools they need to succeed.
As we look to the future, we know we need to continue investing in our program. With the rising costs of living and increased expectations of our student-athletes, scholarships are our program’s greatest need.
Scholarships allow us to attract these young men to our campus and give them financial stability and the world’s most precious resource: time. Lightening their financial burden allows them to focus on their athletics, academics, and community involvement.
This is why we are launching the Goal Line Giving Drive.
The University of Guelph will be the leader in full football scholarships in Ontario and will support Gryphon Football Student-Athletes for generations to come.
Our goal is to grow our football endowment so that we can award $200,000 in scholarships annually and support over 40 Gryphon student-athletes each year through endowed funds.
To do this, we need to raise an additional $2 million.
We Have Great Teammates
To help us achieve this goal, Stu and Kim Lang have generously agreed to match new gifts (up to $1 million) to any existing or new endowed football scholarships.
As we launch The Drive, we are excited to share that we are quickly approaching mid-field as we have raised nearly $500,000 of our target, which has been matched to be nearly a million.
How You Can Support
Create a new endowed scholarship
The minimum gift to create a new scholarship is $30,000, which will support a $1,000 annual scholarship (which becomes $2,000 with the match) in perpetuity. A gift of $75,000 is required to create a new full scholarship (with the match), and will support our maximum individual scholarship of $5,000.
Create an endowed scholarship as a group.
Work together as a group or team to raise the $30,000 and establish a new scholarship in honour of a team, teammate or coach. For example, during the Triple Victory project, the 1984 Vanier Cup Championship team created a scholarship to honour their late teammate, Rick Kohler.
Make a gift to an existing endowed scholarship.
Currently, we have 19 endowed football scholarships, including the newly established Friends of Gryphon Football Scholarship, that you can support.
If you are interested in helping us cross the goal line and score, please contact:
Chris Moulton
Senior Development Manager
226-821-3394
Sam Kosakowski
Alumni Advancement Manager
519-835-2164