This fall, the Tucker Center has received $50,000 through generous financial gifts from sustaining and new donors to support ongoing scholarly efforts and community engagement. One newly established fund in the U of M’s Foundation supports TC Affiliated Scholar Dr. Chelsey Thul‘s East African Adolescent Girls Project. The Girls & Women Sport Opportunities Fund will enable girls and women to participate in sports and physical activity. Specifically, the funds will support a girls’ traveling basketball team from the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood this coming winter and spring. In addition to the Sport Opportunities Fund, donors have made contributions to a variety of Tucker Center initiatives ranging from a scholarship fund devoted to research examining gender equity in sports to the Pam Borton Endowment for the Promotion of Girls and Women in Sport Leadership. Kinesiology Master’s student, Marnie Kinnaird, has been named the first Borton Fellow. Kinnaird is advised by Tucker Center Associate Director, Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi.