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🏃🏼➡️Make your gift today to help Men’s & Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field during the 2026 Barefoot Athletics Challenge!🏃🏼
Babson XCTF friends, families, fans, and of course our alumni; thank you for visiting our fundraising page for this year’s Barefoot Athletics Challenge. Our goal is simple: Beat Our Best. We strive to provide our athletes with a top-notch student-athlete experience and position them to compete at the highest level. Fundraising is a pivotal part of this.
Help us #setthestandard and continue to achieve our goals.
Best,
Coach Russ and Coach Brent
Your gift will be invested into the following programmatic needs:
- Monthly mental health, Sports psychology, & Sports nutrition programing for athletes ($300/ Speaker)
- Travel expenses for elite track & field competitions and last chance opportunities ($5,000+)
- Spring Break trip ($750/athlete)
- Part-time assistant coaches salaries ($25,000)
- Funds to expand our indoor track & field schedule and provide additional athletes with the opportunity to compete
- In-season travel and meets
- Meals (i.e. Linden Sandwiches), snacks, gatorades, etc. ($350-$500/ competition)
- Hotels
- Equipment
- New set of hurdles ($352/hurdle)
- New throwing equipment
- Indoor implements ($30 -$100/implement)
- Light & Heavy shot puts & hammers for training ($150-$200/ea)
- Hammer gloves for all throwers ($35/glove)
- Training facility rentals
You can help us win prize money in this year's Barefoot Challenge!
Beat Our Best Challenge: Each team will be battling to surpass their best results from prior years. The top spots on the leaderboard will belong to programs with the largest donor percentage increase. With additional cash prizes totaling $15,000, you can help make sure our team is a finalist.
🥇1st Place - $7,500
🥈2nd Place - $5,000
🥉3rd Place - $2,500
📢 Encourage your teammates to donate and follow the leaderboard on the main page for Beat Our Best Challenge standings! Need help spreading the word? Use our Advocate Playbook for tips, tricks and sample messaging!
Leaderboard 📈
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WE DID IT! We Beat Our Best 💚 (And with plenty of time to go!)
With hours left - who will take the top three spots on the leaderboard?
There are just hours left in our 13th Annual Barefoot Athletics Challenge and we are in striking distance to our goal! It’s time to dig deep and finish STRONG 💪
We are 329 donors away from surpassing our goal
AND there are new leaders on the board! Remember, whichever teams have the largest percentage increase from their best year will win additional money for their program!
Anything can happen! If your teammate, friends or family have not made their gift yet, now is the time! Let's make more memories, milestones and wins for our student-athletes!
Go BABSON! 💚
Huddle up! We are HALFWAY ⏳ through the Barefoot Athletics Challenge!
The goal is within reach, and it's time to rally your team and help us cross the finish line!
Thank you to our alumni, parents, and friends who showed up for our student-athletes today. Your generosity is already making an impact. 💚
Momentum is building. The energy is real. We are just getting started.
Every gift counts, let’s keep it going into Day 2.
Don’t forget to check the leaderboard and see what team is on top! With two days left, it’s anyone's game!
Over the next three days, the Babson community will come together to support our teams and elevate excellence together. Every gift helps create more moments, more wins, and more milestones for our student‑athletes.
This challenge is about showing what’s possible when we rally behind Babson Athletics. Whether you’ve already given or are cheering us on, thank you for being part of this community effort.
Things to Remember:
🏆 Challenge & Match Opportunities:
More than $26,000 in challenge and match funds are available throughout the Barefoot Athletics Challenge. Your donation can help unlock additional funds for Babson Athletics.
🎉 Donor Incentives:
When you make a gift of $150 or more you can select a Babson Athletics beach towel as a token of our appreciation. With a gift of $500 or more you can choose the beach towel or a Babson Athletics Quarter zip.
📣 Advocate Incentives:
Sign up to be an “advocate” for your team and encourage others to donate via text, email and/or social media! The more donations you bring in, the more Babson swag items you will receive! Use our advocate playbook to help you spread the word!
💚 Every Action Matters:
Every gift and every shared message helps move us closer to our goals and strengthens Babson Athletics as a whole.
Let’s make the most of the next three days and keep the momentum going.
Go BABO! 💚💚
106 days ago by Kellie Light