Northern Colorado Blue & Gold Club
"Putting Scholarships in First Place"
2008 Blue & Gold Club Brochure 
What is the Blue & Gold Club?
Since 1982, the Blue & Gold Club has allowed alumni and friends of the University of Northern Colorado to partner with UNC Athletics.
Your participation will directly affect the lives of 500 young men and women who wear the Blue & Gold.
In 2008, NC successfully completed the transition of all 19 programs to full Division I membership. The core mission of the Blue & Gold
Club is to provide the student-athletes with scholarship assistance. Since 2002 (see chart below), scholarship funding has dramatically
increased through the transition. Your support is essential to fielding successful teams.
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The 2007 seniors on the soccer team
helped lead the Bears to the Big Sky
Conference Championship title game. |
Sponsor 19 NCAA Division I Varsity Sport Programs-
Baseball and Wrestling only Division I state-funded programs in the State of Colorado.
Big Sky Membership for 14 Sports (Football, Basketball (M&W), Volleyball, Women's Soccer, Women's Golf, Tennis (M&W), Indoor
& Outdoor Track and Cross Country (M&W).
Wrestling--Western Wrestling Conference
Men's Golf--America Sky Golf Conference
Women's Swimming--Pacific Collegiate Swimming and Diving Conference
Baseball and Softball--NCAA Division I Independent
Blue & Gold Club Benefits
By joining the Blue & Gold Club, you get involved in NC Athletics. You will meet coaches, student-athletes and fans and have an opportunity to work with Club members to promote NC Athletics. The Blue & Gold Board is committed to providing opportunities to deserving student-athletes and has structured the benefit package to maximize grant-in-aid funds available to student-athletes.
How does athletic grant-in-aid benefit a top athletic program?
Grant-in-aid funds provided by the Blue & Gold Club allow UNC student-athletes to pursue a quality education at one of the region's top universities.
The Blue & Gold Club helps UNC student-athletes maintain a level of athletic and academic excellence that makes the university, its
alumni and fans proud. The tradition of excellence in academics and athletics will continue as UNC plays on a national level in NCAA Division I.
Recent achievements by UNC student-athletes include:
Four teams--Women's Volleyball, Women's Soccer, Women's Basketball, Women's Tennis--qualified for Big Sky postseason tournaments.
50 All-Conference Performers
50 All-Conference Academic Performers
16 Athletes recognized as players/performers of the week.
35 Student-Athletes with a 4.00 GPA--Fall 2007
44% (155) of Student-Athletes with 3.2 GPA or higher--Fall 2007
57% (201) of Student-Athletes with 3.0 or higher--Fall 2007
43 Academic All-Americans, including 27 since 1990
NC Students' GPA: 2.84--Fall 2007 ~ UNC Student-Athletes' GPA: 3.07--Fall 2007
Two NCAA Division II Football Championships (1996 & 1997)
18 Individual National Champions, including eight since 1990
For more information, contact
Jack Maughan
Director of Development
(970) 351-1815
E-Mail
or call the University of Northern Colorado Athletic Department at (970) 351-2534.
