Centennial Campaign
On behalf of UCLA's student-athletes, coaches and staff, THANK YOU for your generous investment in UCLA Athletics during the Centennial Campaign. Each gift helped UCLA Athletics in our mission to build upon our status as the premier intercollegiate athletics program in the nation. Your support helped to dramatically enhance the student-athlete experience at UCLA, helping to position UCLA Athletics to reach new heights and generate momentum entering our second century.
Campaign Success Stories
Because of your support, we were able to make facility enhancements to benefit UCLA's student-athletes including the following new venues and upgrades to current facilities:
Wasserman Football Center
- 75,000 new square feet of state-of-the-art practice, workout, rehabilitation, relaxation, and meeting space
- 20,000+ repurposed square feet from football's relocation that has given more space for the other 550+ UCLA student-athletes
Mo Ostin Basketball Center
- 35,000 new square feet of state-of-the-art locker rooms, training areas, athletic performance facility, team meeting rooms, and video room
- 24/7 access to two separate basketball courts to allow student-athletes the opportunity to work on their game whenever they would like
Wallis Annenberg Stadium
- A soccer-specific stadium that has 2,145 seats
- Allows fans to be closer to the action, enhancing and enhances the atmosphere for student-athletes
Mapes Beach
- The facility underwent a complete renovation prior to the 2020 season and now features three regulation sized beach volleyball courts and one warm-up court
- The expanded site affords the Beach Volleyball team ample space to train and compete, and offers a picturesque setting for student-athletes and spectators alike
Yates Gym
- Enhancements to UCLA Gymnastics' training facility include a new loft with a team conference room, locker room, lounge and athletic training room
- A new podium floor was also installed, bringing the entire floor up to a single level along with new sliding doors and an exterior walkway for coaching along the runway
Easton Stadium
- New elements at the home of UCLA Softball include a recognition plaza, custom student-athlete lockers, mudroom, new scoreboard with enhanced audio and video presentation, new outfield wall graphics and a new pole-less backstop for improved spectator viewing
Jackie Robinson Stadium
- Upgrades to the home of UCLA Baseball include a state-of-the-art new video board and new stadium seats to dramatically enhance the fan experience
Drake Stadium and Betsy & Rafer Johnson Track
- Upgrades to this historic facility for UCLA Track & Field include a new Mondo track surface named in honor of UCLA Legend Rafer Johnson and his wife Betsy, and a new video-enabled scoreboard and sound system
- The new Sherie and Don Morrison Plaza features recognitions highlighting the achievements of UCLA Track & Field student-athletes and teams
Los Angeles Tennis Center
- The new Katz Family Scoreboard's Daktronics display, measuring 18 feet high and 31.2 feet wide, is among the largest LED video screens in collegiate tennis
- New PlaySight video system was installed to provide video replay review for matches, enhanced video capabilities for training and live streaming of matches online
Mo Ostin Academic Center for Student-Athletes
A transformative gift near the end of the Centennial Campaign and your continued support will allow UCLA Athletics to build a new on-campus academic facility to benefit all of UCLA's nearly 700 student-athletes.
- Nearly 20,000 square feet of individual and group study spaces, tutorial areas, state-of-the-art technology labs and offices for UCLA Athletics' Academic and Student Services staff
- A facility to provide student-athletes additional resources to succeed in the classroom and their pursuits outside of athletics
Thank you to the
CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN
ATHLETICS EXECUTIVE CABINET
To reach our ambitious Centennial Campaign goal, it was imperative to engage and recruit campaign volunteers that are leaders in the community, who have stayed committed philanthropically, and could help us generate substantial momentum during the campaign.
We are thankful for the commitment and continued support of our UCLA Athletics' Centennial Campaign Leadership Committee.
MS. SHELLY CARLIN, BAKERSFIELD
MR. JIM COLLINS, LOS ANGELES
MR. DAVID DOLLINGER, ATHERTON
MR. TERRY DONAHUE, NEWPORT BEACH
MR. JIM FORD, PACIFIC PALISADES
MR. GREG GEISER, MANHATTAN BEACH
MR. SCOTT GRAVES, PACIFIC PALISADES
MR. MAC HOFEDITZ, TIBURON
MR. RAFER JOHNSON, SHERMAN OAKS
MR. TODD KATZ, BEVERLY HILLS
MR. JOHN MAPES, LOS ANGELES
MR. JEFF MOORAD, LA JOLLA
MR. MATT PAULEY, PACIFIC PALISADES
MR. CASEY WASSERMAN, BEVERLY HILLS
MR. BOB WILSON, RANCHO SANTA FE
MR. CHUCK WINNER, BEVERLY HILLS