Sport at St Andrews

Sport plays a significant part in student life at St Andrews: over half of our students participate in physical activities. With this in mind, the University has invested in a major £14 million refurbishment and extension of the indoor sports facilities and recruited a number of highly qualified, specialist staff to help realise our vision of achieving excellence in sport, enhancing the student experience through sport, and increasing engagement in sport within and outwith the University.

Find out more about the different ways you can support sport at St Andrews below.

Sports Clubs

Sports Clubs form an integral part of the unique St Andrews experience: they help students to integrate into the University community, feel a sense of belonging and make lasting friendships.

The vast majority of clubs are run by students and offer activities for all levels of ability at both competitive and recreational level. Although the University subsidises the clubs through Saints Sport to help pay for competition entries, transport, facility hire and coaching, they often need to raise funds themselves for additional equipment and extra coaching.

If you would like to support a specific club, please select 'Other' from the menu above and add the Sport Club name into the 'Additional Instructions' box. If you are happy to support Saints Sport in general with funds being used where most needed, please select the 'Saints Sport (general purposes)' option above.

Sport Scholarships & Performance Programmes

Our sports scholarships and awards have been developed to attract and then financially support exceptional students who wish to continue their sport at a high level whilst furthering their education at St Andrews. These are available at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Saints Performance Scholarships exist for Basketball, Football (soccer), Golf, Field Hockey, Netball, Lacrosse, Rowing (Boat) Rugby, Tennis and Water Polo. Find out more about the sport performance programme here.

In addition students can benefit from a postgraduate St Leonard's Masters Scholarship. This scheme allow applicants to draw on their professional and life experiences to demonstrate resilience, resourcefulness, and commitment. Applicants are asked to explicitly articulate their potential using both academic and professional or life experiences. Excellence can be demonstrated in music and theatre or leadership in sports or civic duty as well as in formally assessed academic work.

If you are interested in supporting any of these awards, please select the relevant option above.

Golf at St Andrews

The 600 Club - Saints Golf Donor Fund

Join our community of supporters from around the globe to help us develop a world-renowned golf programme at Scotland’s first university. With access to world-leading teaching and a comprehensive professionally run high performance golf programme, there is nowhere more special than St Andrews – the Home of Golf – at which to be a student golfer.

The 600 Club was formed in 2013 during the University’s 600-year anniversary celebrations to support the growth and development of the Saints Golf Programme.

To achieve our goals, we are helped enormously by the donations and external support from our 600 Club members. Any financial support is channelled straight back into helping the players via scholarships, coaching, tournament assistance, travel, or bespoke support. If you would like to join this community of donors, please select the Sport: 600 Club - Saints Golf Donor Fund option above.

Golf - Arnold Palmer Golf Scholarships

St Andrews is incredibly fortunate to be only the second University in the world to be able to bestow upon a student an Arnold Palmer Scholarship. Dr Palmer’s relationship with St Andrews is legendary and was cemented in 2010 when he received his honorary doctorate from the University. Scholarships are awarded to those who best embody the spirit of the man, the game, and the University. All Saints Golf scholars within the performance programme at St Andrews can apply for an Arnold Palmer Scholarship.

Rowing (Boat)

Donations can be made to fund Saints Rowing Performance Scholarships to enable our top student rowers to harness their full potential and achieve sporting and academic excellence whilst studying at St Andrews. Alternatively, you can support the purchase of new equipment through the Boat Club (New Boat) or give support for general purposes for the Boat Club to use where most needed please select the option Sport: Eden Boat Club - Rowing Development Fund.

International Volunteering Programmes

The University’s international volunteering programmes in Africa have been running for over ten years and focus on both sport for development and sports development initiatives, in partnership with key local stakeholders.

The Saints Volunteering programme give students the opportunity to add value to their university education, enhance their global awareness, develop their leadership skills, and improve their coaching abilities. Please select this option above if you would like to support this initiative.

Other Ways to Support St Andrews

SaintsFunder

SaintsFunder is our dedicated crowdfunding platform. Available to students, staff, academics, schools, service units and alumni to enable them to fundraise for projects, on behalf of the University community. Please visit SaintsFunder to find out more.

Legacies

By leaving a gift to St Andrews, you can become part of the University’s story and create a lasting impact for generations to come.

For more information please contact: Katrina Bell (Legacies Manager) Email: keb32@st-andrews.ac.uk

Other fundraising projects

If you don't see the area that you would like to support on our giving pages, then please contact a member of our US team below and they will be happy to discuss projects with you.

Head of Development (United States) - Kathryn Humphreys
Email: kgh4@st-andrews.ac.uk Phone: +1 215-718-5503

Development Manager (US West coast) - Lily Nguyen
Email: lxn1@st-andrews.ac.uk Phone: +1 323-561-1930

Senior Development Manager (US East coast) - Moira Sharkey
Email: ms419@st-andrews.ac.uk Phone: +1 508-287-0871

Alumni, Events & Family Programme Manager, United States - Leah Dalton
Email: ld207@st-andrews.ac.uk Phone: +1 410-662-2525

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