The Annual Fund Sports Endowments Benefits of Membership
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Benefits of Membership Minimum Gift Required $25 $100 $200 $500 $1,000 $2,500 $5,000 $14,716 $100,000 $200,000 Amount of Time to Fully Fund Commitment Annual Annual Annual Annual Annual Annual Annual Annual 5 years 5 years BENEFITS ANNUAL ENDOWMENT Season Football Tickets Rights* 2~ 4~ 2^ 4^ 8^ 12^ 12^ 8^ + 12^ + Football Parking Permit RAM BIG RAM RAMESES Away Game & Post Season Football Ticket & Travel Info HEEL TAR SUPER RAM SUPER Individual Game Basketball Tickets #* Mini-Season Basketball Ticket Application COACHES CIRCLE COACHES Football and Basketball Media Guides FULL SCHOLARSHIP HALF SCHOLARSHIP Tar Heel Monthly Magazine SCHOLARSHIP ANNUAL CAROLINA STUDENT RAM CAROLINA Discounts at Finley Golf Course (with membership card) Super Saturday & Local Functions with Carolina Coaches Rams Club Golf Tournaments Rams Room Pre- & Post-Game Football Reception Lapel Pin/Car Decal/Membership Card Priority Points for Donations Exclusive Coaches Circle Social Functions Season Basketball Tickets* 2# 2# 2+ 4+ Basketball Parking Permit Annual Scholarship Dinner (upon completion) Peebles Practice Facility Pre- & Post-Game Basketball Reception Scholarship Recognition * Available for purchase ~Ram and Tar Heel levels can purchase as ^Rameses level and above may purchase + Upon completion of a scholarship, Half many football season tickets as wanted (and as many football season tickets as wanted (and Scholarship donors must maintain a Super # If available are available). Only the number indicated are available). The indicated number of seats Ram membership; Full Scholarship donors must will be based on member priority. may be protected by location annually. Only maintain a Coaches Circle membership. the number indicated will be based on member priority. The Annual Fund THE PLANNED GIVING SOCIETY Donations through the Annual Fund offer The Rams Club the OF THE RAMS CLUB opportunity to meet immediate funding needs-primarily the funds As the Rams Club’s planned giving program, Carolina Forever needed to bridge the difference between the endowment’s yield offers donors an opportunity to make a lasting impact by involving and the actual scholarship costs and other important projects for Carolina Athletics in their estate planning. Carolina Forever’s Carolina’s student-athletes. mission is to insure that the university continues to provide in perpetuity the unique opportunity to experience what it means to be a Tar Heel student-athlete in a broad-based athletics program. Sports Endowments The Rams Club’s Scholarship Endowment Trust is the largest athletic The Sport Endowments program provides additional funding for the scholarship endowment in the nation. The Scholarship Endowment operating budgets of each of the 28 sports. Donors can make gifts Trust is built upon gifts from Carolina supporters who have to an individual sport with the yield from that trust made available endowed Full or Half Scholarships in support of student-athletes to the appropriate coach for use in budget-enhancing activities like which provide in perpetuity the support to a broad-based athletics recruiting, team travel, assistant coaches’ salaries and more. With program. the gifts designated into an endowment, these gifts will provide a continuous stream of usable income in perpetuity. 202 It’s there. Sometimes it’s subtle. Other times it’s as obvious as the sky above. It can be in the tie that you wear to work, or the swoosh on your tennis shoes. It can be in the paint you choose for your family room, or on the car that you drive. It can be in the flag you hang from your front porch, or that championship t-shirt you wear to the gym. It’s in all of us. We show it in different ways, but eventually it comes out – that streak of Carolina Blue deep inside us that drives our passion for the Tar Heels. When you think about it, you likely Show Your Colors in many different ways – from the clothes you wear, to the items you’ll find at home and in the office, to the way you get excited putting on that lucky hat before heading out to cheer for the Heels. And maybe it’s in the pride you feel when Carolina student- athletes excel like few others in college athletics. You can Show Your Colors in a life-changing way by being a part of The Rams Club – offering outstanding young men and women an opportunity to represent the University of North Carolina in competition, in the classroom and in the community. Your support through The Rams Club is integral in providing athletic scholarships to Carolina student- athletes, as well as outstanding facilities in which they can train and compete at the top level of college athletics. How do you Show Your Colors? Join The Rams Club today. Visit us at www.RamsClub.com P.O. Box 2446 • Chapel Hill, NC 27515 919.843.2000 203 RECORDSCAROLINABASKETBALL Through its teaching, research and CAROLINA ATHLETICS EXECUTIVE STAFF UNC ADMINISTRATION engagement, the University of North Dick Baddour, Athletic Director Carolina at Chapel Hill serves as an Larry Gallo, Senior Associate Athletic Director HOLDEN THORP educational and economic beacon for Martina Ballen, Senior Associate A.D./Business & Finance John Blanchard, Senior Associate A.D./Student-Athlete Services LINA the people of North Carolina and be- Beth Miller, Senior Associate A.D./Olympic Sports Chancellor O yond. John Montgomery, Senior Associate AD/Rams Club President AR Willie Scroggs, Senior Associate A.D./Operations & Facilities C HISTORY Clint Gwaltney, Associate A.D./Smith Center & Ticket Operations H T Steve Kirschner, Associate A.D./Communications R • The University of North Carolina at Rick Steinbacher, Associate A.D./Marketing & Promotions O Chapel Hill was the nation’s first state Michael Beale, Assistant A.D./Director of Marketing N Jeff Connors, Assistant A.D./Strength & Conditioning F university to open its doors and the Ellen Culler, Assistant A.D./Football & Olympic Sports Operations O only public university to award degrees Amy Herman, Assistant A.D./Compliance & Financial Services Y T in the 18th century. Cricket Lane, Assistant A.D./Student-Athlete Development DICK BADDOUR • Authorized by the N.C. Constitution Susan Maloy, Assistant A.D./Eligibility & Certification in 1776, the university was chartered Athletic Director NIVERSIby the N.C. General Assembly Dec. 11, demically prepared first-year class in Univer- U 1789, the same year George Washington first sity history, with 3,895 students drawn from a HE was inaugurated as president. record 20,000 applications. This year’s applica- T • The cornerstone was laid for Old East, the tions surpassed that, hitting the 21,487 mark. nation’s first state university building, Oct. 12, • Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pa- 1793. Hinton James, the first student, arrived thology and Laboratory Medicine, received the from Wilmington, N.C., Feb. 12, 1795. 2007 Nobel Prize. • Faculty attracted more than $610 million in DR. JACK RECENT RANKINGS & RATINGS outside research funding in fiscal 2007 – more EVANS Several national publications regularly pub- than double the amount a decade ago. • Through teaching, research and public lish rankings that list Carolina prominently in Faculty service, Carolina connects with the people of categories ranging from academic quality to af- Representative fordability to diversity to engagement to inter- North Carolina every day in ways that improve national presence. Recent highlights include: lives and build futures. • First among the 100 best U.S. public col- • The Carolina First Campaign, completed in leges and universities that offer the best com- December 2007, was the most successful fund- bination of top-flight academics and affordable raising effort in University history, raising more costs as ranked by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance than $2.38 billion. magazine. • Fifth-best public university in U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 “Best Colleges” guide- book for the seventh consecutive year. • One of seven public universities ranking in the top 25 for all nine measures used in the 2007 edition of “The Top American Research Universities.” • Among 25 ‘New Ivy” campuses in the 2007 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get into College Guide.” • Third among major U.S. universities in the percentage of African-American students in the 2007 first-year class, according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. POINTS OF PRIDE • Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked Carolina the No. 1 best value in Ameri- can public higher education for the seventh con- secutive time. The rating assessed the 100 best U.S. public colleges and universities that offer the best combination of top-flight academics and affordable costs. • The first full class of Carolina Covenant Scholars graduated in May 2008. The Caro- lina Covenant provides a debt-free education to qualified low-income students from North Carolina and beyond. • Last fall, Carolina enrolled the most aca- campus photos by Dan Sears 204 2008-09 CAROLINABASKETBALLRECORDS Jeffrey Camarati real inspiration for the fund-raising effort came from the campaign chairman, the late Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles. Six years, 2,362 donors and over $34 million D EAN later, the premiere basketball arena in Amer- ica became a reality. Dedicated in September E 1986 as the Dean Edwards Smith Center, the . S 300,000-square-foot structure stands on seven and MI one-half acres of the University’s south campus. T Over 20,000 cubic yards of rock were removed to H C make room for the 340-foot-wide, 380-foot-long EN and 140-foot-high building. T ER GREAT GAMES • On Feb. 8, 1992, UNC rallied from 22 points down to beat Wake Forest, the largest comeback in school history. • On Jan. 27, 1993, UNC trailed Florida State by 21 points with 11:48 to play in the game, but ral- arolina basketball is competing in Rams Club offices were retrofit- lied for an 82-77 win.