CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Virginia Athletics Foundation (VAF), Virginia Athletics, and Alexis Ohanian, General Partner and Founder of Seven Seven Six, introduced right now (Dec. 12) a transformational present in assist of Virginia Women’s Basketball. This present is the most important in ladies’s basketball program historical past and can elevate Virginia Women’s Basketball’s recruiting and retention of championship degree expertise.
Ohanian, a UVA alumnus, has dedicated a multi-year present which is the second largest present to ladies’s athletics in UVA historical past. The present will enable UVA to be a premier vacation spot for feminine student-athletes whereas addressing the monetary and aggressive calls for of this new period of faculty athletics.
“Alexis’ dedication to ladies’s sports activities is unparalleled,” stated Virginia Director of Athletics Carla Williams. “He sees the worth and he’s prepared to take a position. His assist will assist entice championship expertise to the University of Virginia and particularly, to UVA Women’s Basketball. I’m extraordinarily grateful for his foresight and dedication to the way forward for ladies’s athletics on the University of Virginia.”
Ohanian’s monetary contribution will construct on UVA’s lengthy historical past of supporting feminine student-athletes which has led to 11 ladies’s NCAA Team National Championships, 57 ladies’s particular person NCAA National Championships, and 19 Olympic Gold medals received by Virginia feminine student-athletes.
Ohanian, class of 2005, graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce on the University of Virginia and has been a devoted philanthropist and a champion of investing in ladies’s sports activities.
“It’s in all probability the query I get probably the most usually lately–when are you going to make strikes in ladies’s basketball?” stated Ohanian. “I’m proud to assist the ladies’s program at my alma mater with this donation. It’s time to deliver the nation’s finest hoops expertise to Charlottesville and win some championships within the subsequent 4 years.”
Ohanian, finest generally known as the co-founder and former government chairman of the social media web site Reddit, based Venture Capital Firm Seven Seven Six 4 years in the past. Seven Seven Six is dedicated to innovating merchandise to processes within the hopes of pushing tech and VC ahead as industries. Ohanian is the husband of Serena Williams, who received 23 particular person Grand Slam championships throughout her legendary tennis profession and is dad to daughters Alexis Olympia and Adira River.
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