Athletics Sports Performance Fund
Introducing the UCI Athletics Sports Performance Fund

The UCI Athletics Sport Performance Fund exists to support the holistic elite performance of UCI athletes and teams. To maintain sustained competitive excellence at the NCAA Division 1 level, athletes need access to elite performance support through advanced sports medicine and treatment, data collection and interdisciplinary research, progressive strength, and conditioning resources, athletic fueling nutrition, modern sports psychology and a continuity of care over their four-year career. A donation to the UCI Athletics Sport Performance Fund ensures that our student-athletes have access to world-class resources needed for all high performing competitors and teams.

Dear UC Irvine Athletics Community,

This Giving Day, we cordially invite you to support our UCI Athletics Sports Performance Fund, which serves as a vehicle to promote resources that directly impact ALL 18 teams at UC Irvine and 100% of our student-athletes. Every student-athlete uses sports performance resources daily: training in the Santora Elite Training Center, getting medical treatment in the Carlos Prietto Sports Medicine Center, fueling with proper nutrition, obtaining mental health support and/or participating in a performance enhancing seminar. 

Here are some new sport performance initiatives and resources that serve our student-athletes and enable them to perform at their highest level:

  • Data driven and evidence-based assessments for holistic support and care. 
  • In-house world class physical therapy to return athletes to the field of play in swift and safe manners. 
  • Sports Nutrition for performance consulting for individual athletes and team trainings. 
  • On demand nutritional products including fresh fruit, protein shakes, protein bars, & hydration.
  • Health and Wellness coaching and sport psychology support for athletes. 
  • Weekly Yoga and Mindfulness sessions. 
  • Integrated campus research that is relevant to Athletics.

As we look to the year ahead, there are so many ways we want to invest in the high performance of our student-athletes. Your gift today to the UCI Athletics Sports Performance Fund, no matter the amount, will have a transformative impact on the entire student-athlete population in their academic and athletic performance.

Thank you for your support this Giving Day and Go 'Eaters!

John Abdou
Associate Athletic Director- Health, Wellness & Sports Performance

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