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Thank you for your support of Viking Athletics. Your investment in our success through the Viking Athletic Club (VAC) will ensure our student-athletes are supported in the classroom and in uniform and give our coaches the resources they need to keep their programs at the top.
Your Impact
We are pleased to recognize gifts of $100 or more to any Viking athletic team or scholarship with membership in the Viking Athletic Club. your gift makes a difference in the lives of more than 300 WWU student-athletes and enables our coaches to do what they do best-coach. Your gift transforms the student-athlete experience and makes their dreams possible. Through hard work, determination and donor support, Viking student-athletes do not let anything stand in their way on the road to victory.
Why we need your support
The University and the Athletic Department rely on gifts from generous donors like you to support life-changing scholarships, provide teams with essential training tools and equipment and give student-athletes the opportunity to compete at the highest levels. Your gift creates the margin of excellence needed to make the Viking experience complete.
Areas to Support
Your donation, whether it be to your favorite team or to general athletics as a whole, impacts every aspect of the student-athlete experience. From the training room to the classroom, to on-court and on-field competition, your generosity makes a huge difference.
Western Washington University is a four-year public institution located in Bellingham, Washington, featuring over 300 student-athletes that compete for 15 intercollegiate athletic teams at the NCAA Division II level and primarily in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. WWU Athletics has finished in the top 50 in the NCAA II Learfield Directors' Cup standings in 15 of the past 16 years, and in the top 20 in eight of the last 12 years. WWU's programs have won 11 team national championships, most recently the 2016 women's soccer team and the 2017 women's rowing team. Outside of competition. WWU's student-athletes have compiled an academic success rate near 90%, earning the NCAA's President's Award for Academic Excellence two of the last three years.
During the 2018-19 sports season, 9 of 15 programs had representation at the NCAA Championships, 94 student-athletes earned GNAC Academic All-Star status, 75 were All-GNAC selections, 41 received all-region honors and 13 were named All-Americans. Five programs won GNAC titles to lead the conference, including a perfect 20-0 season by the volleyball team, the regular-season title by women's soccer, the ninth title in program history by men's golf and an sweep of the indoor and outdoor track & field titles. The 2019-20 season is off to a successful start with the fall sports teams going 5-for-5 in GNAC titles with all advancing to the NCAA Championships.
You can support Viking Athletics as a whole or choose to designate your gift to one of our specific sport teams helping our student-athlete success today!
