NEW YORK – Calling all alumni, family, friends, and fans of Yeshiva University. The Yeshiva University Athletics Department will be conducting a campaign called "Eight Day of Giving" throughout the eight days of Chanukah (December 22 – December 30). This marks the first time that Yeshiva Athletics will be holding a movement of this magnitude. The money will be going to projects such as facility improvements, practice gear, media upgrades, team travel, etc.
You can help support the incredible young women and men who have the privilege of wearing the uniform of the only athletic program in the country that won't ask them to compromise their Jewish beliefs. To make a donation, head over to YUMacs.com/EightDays.
The Yeshiva University men's and women's teams have risen to championship levels over the course of the last several years. In 2017-18, the men's basketball team earned its first Skyline Conference championship and NCAA tournament bid in program history. The men's basketball team's NCAA tournament appearance brought out hundreds of YU backers to York, Pennsylvania to see the MACS in person, while over 22,000 computers, world-wide, watched online.
That same year, the women's tennis team was the first women's program in school history to compete in the NCAA Tournament. The men's tennis team has captured six consecutive Skyline Conference championships and have won three NCAA postseason matches during that stretch.
Our student-athletes also excel in the classroom, consistently earning higher GPAs that the rest of the student body and earning national recognition for their academic success. These are the true exemplars of Jewish student-athletes, ones who daven between games of a doubleheader, who don't practice or compete on Shabbat or Holidays, and who visibly wear their Jewish pride.
Chanukah celebrates the Maccabees' victory over the larger Greek empire and the liberation and restoration of the Beit Hamikdash (Temple). The modern-day Maccabees embody that same spirit of victory, the idea of overcoming large obstacles, and the continuation of Jewish values.
We are determined to have more teams representing Yeshiva in NCAA Tournament play, but we need your help. Recruiting exemplary student-athletes, providing proper training equipment, and competitive travel requires an investment on the part of our alumni, friends and supporters. Please give every consideration to supporting a program or Athletics in general during our campaign. This is the best way you can impact the experience of our 250 non-scholarship student-athletes who represent this remarkable institution.
We hope you will take in a YU sporting event wherever it's played, and when you do, stop by and say hello- give us a chance to say 'thank you' for helping us achieve our goals, one of which is becoming the pride of the Jewish people.
