Tulsa University athletic director Rick Dickson announced that the University of Tulsa’s Athletics Endowment Fund received a $30 million donation from an anonymous donor.
“I am deeply grateful that I can wrap up my career as a collegiate athletics director by announcing this important gift, which will leave UTulsa Athletics on sound financial footing for generations to come,” said Dickson in a press release.
The endowment’s funds will cover scholarship student-athletes’ tuition fees indefinitely. Donations help make certain financial limitations are not a hindrance to any student-athlete’s ability to succeed in the classroom or on the field. The donors are former letter winners and student-athletes.