STATEMENT OF ATHLETICS PHILOSOPHY

Through the sponsorship of 22 intercollegiate sports and comprehensive intramural and club sports programs, the athletics department shares with other programs on campus the responsibility to contribute positively to the development of each student.  We believe that through sports, students develop enduring values - in particular, the importance of striving toward excellence, dedicating effort to team goals, and testing oneself.  As is stated in the Knight Commission Intercollegiate Athletics Report, March 19991, we value the education students gain through their experiences in sports. 

Games and sports are educational in the best sense of that word because they teach the participant and the observer new truths about testing oneself and others, about the enduring values of challenge and response, about teamwork, discipline and perseverance.  Above all, intercollegiate contests drive home a fundamental lesson.  Goals worth achieving will be attained only through effort, hard work and sacrifice, and sometimes these will not be enough to overcome the obstacles life places in our paths. 

-Knight Foundation Commission
Intercollegiate Athletics Report

BRYANT UNIVERSITY MISSION STATEMENT

Bryant is a student-centered university focused on academic excellence that prepares its graduates to achieve their personal best in life and their chosen professions.