About the Blue and Gold Society

We do everything we can to make sure our students have the support they need to realize their full potential as scholars, as athletes, and as citizens of the world.

When you make an unrestricted gift to the Blue & Gold Society, you provide the support we need to help them do so. Your gift may be used to better equip our teams or to enhance the facilities where our scholar-athletes practice and compete. It may be used to support our recruiting efforts, or the salaries of our coaches and staff, or to subsidize team travel to competitions at other colleges.

You can also choose to earmark your gift in support of a particular team or program.

No matter what you choose, when you support the Blue & Gold Society, you are playing an important part in helping our athletic programs accomplish their goals — and realize their full potential.

What your gift supports: It takes a significant investment to offer a first-rate athletic program year after year.

The average cost for one team to travel by bus to play a conference game is $750. A women’s field hockey goalie wears $800 worth of equipment. Basketball jerseys cost $80 each. We spend $9,000 each year on training room supplies, and it can cost as much as $2,500 to send our track and field team to an invitational meet out of state.

But the return on the investment is tremendous. Over the past 10 years, Goucher scholar-athletes have earned eight conference team titles, one Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national riding championship, 24 individual conference titles, and three IHSA Zone IV championships. Eleven of our scholar-athletes have been awarded All-American honors—some in more than one sport, and some for two years in a row. In the past two years, more than 96 Goucher scholar-athletes have been named to the Capital Athletic Conference All-Academic team—a conference - leading percentage of eligible athletes. Since 1991, four Goucher scholar-athletes have racked up seven Academic All-American honors. They are proven leaders, setting records on the playing field and setting the standard in classroom.