• Thu, 05/17 | Baseball vs. Central Connecticut State (3:30 PM) LS | V
  • Thu, 05/17 | Men's Golf at NCAA Regionals (All Day)
  • Fri, 05/18 | Baseball vs. TBA (TBA) V
  • Fri, 05/18 | Men's Golf at NCAA Regionals (All Day)
  • Sat, 05/19 | Men's Golf at NCAA Regionals (All Day)
  • Fri, 05/25 | Men's T&F NCAA Regional (TBA)
  • Fri, 05/25 | Women's T&F at NCAA East Regional Preliminary Round (TBA)
  • Sat, 05/26 | Men's T&F NCAA Regional (TBA)
  • Sat, 05/26 | Women's T&F at NCAA East Regional Preliminary Round (TBA)

Welcome to the Pioneer Club!

 
 
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• MAKE A GIFT & DIFFERENCE NOW!  
On behalf of our over 800 student-athletes and nearly 100 coaches and administrators in our 31 varsity sports, we invite you to become a member of the Pioneer Club, the official development and fundraising arm that supports the Sacred Heart University Department of Athletics.  Membership in the Pioneer Club provides an opportunity for alumni, friends, parents, businesses, and other organizations to make a positive and vital impact on our success by directly supporting Sacred Heart Athletics.  Your annual financial support makes it possible for our student-athletes to compete regionally and nationally at the highest levels of NCAA Division I competition.

 

Our Mission

The Pioneer Club operates in collaboration with the Sacred Heart University Office of Institutional Advancement (IA).  The mission of the Pioneer Club is:

  • To raise funds specifically in support of the Sacred Heart University Department of Athletics.
  • To enhance the student-athlete undergraduate experience while a member of the Sacred Heart University community.
  • To further develop the NCAA Division I intercollegiate experience by providing resources for increased operational and supplemental expenses.
  • To provide greater opportunities for student-athlete recruitment and visibility, both regionally and nationally.
  • To re-connect alumni to their athletic and undergraduate experience.

Your Support is the Foundation of Our Success
Your contributions help provide critical support in numerous areas, highlighted by:

Academics: Your generosity provides academic support services for our student-athletes, including financial aid packages and academic tutors.

Life Skills: Healthy bodies and minds build winning teams and lead to success in life by helping develop healthy lifestyles and habits.  Your help provides our student-athletes with quality life skills programs as well as top sports medicine treatment.

Travel: Trips to post-season tournaments are the result of result of regular season success on our fields, courts and ice.  Your support assists in underwriting these championship travel expenses.

Building the Future: Your contributions allow Sacred Heart’s coaches to upgrade their recruiting efforts and build stronger teams for the future.

Designate Your Gift to Meet the Specific Needs of a Team or Program Area
You can designate your gift to be used to meet the operational needs of a specific team or program area in a given fiscal year.  You can also choose to augment and enhance a specific team or general athletic scholarship fund to help us meet our long-term goal of moving all of our athletic scholarship funds to endowed status in future years.

Gifts to team operating funds help meet the immediate needs of our sport programs, be they training, travel, apparel, and off-season competition, to name a few-all with an eye on enhancing the student-athlete experience. 

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