Grants for Women in Sports

Women in sports are eligible for a number of grants that seek to give women an equal opportunity to excel on the playing field. Foundations, sports associations, universities, and corporations with sports-related products are just some of the places women in sports seeking grants should begin their search. Grants may support sports activities, may provide tuition support to scholar-athletes or women pursuing further education in a sports-related field, or may provide cash to enable an athlete to focus full-time on their sport.

  1. Dorothy Harris Endowed Scholarship

    • The Women’s Sports Foundation awards up to $3,000 each year to two females pursuing doctorate or masters-level education in Physical Education, Sport Management, Sport Psychology or Sport Sociology. Applicants are evaluated based on career goals, grade point average, financial need, research studies, and the potential for influence her participation in sport or research is judged to have. Scholarship checks are issued in the summer for fall semesters and must be used towards tuition.

      Dorothy Harris Endowed Scholarship

      Women’s Sports Foundation

      Eisenhower Park, 1899 Hempstead Turnpike, Suite 400

      East Meadow, NY 11554

      800-227-3988

      www.womenssportsfoundation.org

    National Collegiate Athletic Association Women’s Enhancement Program

    • Thirteen women who performed with distinction as student body members of an undergraduate instituion recieve postgraduate scholarships of $6,000 to pursue a sports-related program that will assist the applicant in obtaining a career in intercollegiate athletics. Applications are due in mid-February.

      The National Collegiate Athletic Association

      700 W. Washington Street

      P.O. Box 6222

      Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-6222

      317-917-6222

      www.ncaa.org

    Stacey Levitt Women And Sport Memorial Scholarship

    • A scholarship program established in memory of Stacey Levitt, an 18-year-old struck by a car while jogging on August 30, 1995, this program provides $2500 to a young woman, a girls’ sports team, or a sport organization that exemplifies the ideals and qualities of Stacey Levitt. The scholarship is distributed among five recipients, each of whom receive $500.

      Stacey Levitt Women and Sport Memorial Scholarship (c/o Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity)

      N202-801 King Edward Avenue

      Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

      CANADA

      613-562-5668

      www.caaws.ca