Developing Champions. Inspiring Leaders. Transforming Lives.
UBC Sports Foundation empowers student-athletes through education, mentorship, leadership development, and community engagement, helping them succeed in competition, in the classroom, and throughout life.
Together, we're building champions for life.
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Meet Our Founder
Unique B. Connor
UBC Sports Foundation was founded from a deeply personal experience.
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As the first person in her family to attend college, Founder and CEO Unique Connor knows firsthand how life-changing the right opportunity can be. Through her dedication on the track, she earned multiple full-track scholarship offers, opening doors that changed the trajectory of her life. But despite those opportunities, she often found herself navigating the college recruiting process, scholarship decisions, and life after high school without the guidance or mentorship many student-athletes need.
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That experience inspired a mission.
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In 2019, Unique founded UBC Sports Foundation to ensure that no student-athlete has to navigate their journey alone. She believes every young person deserves access to mentors, educational resources, leadership development, and opportunities that help them succeed not only in sports, but in the classroom, in their careers, and throughout life.
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Today, UBC Sports Foundation is dedicated to developing the whole student-athlete by equipping young people with the confidence, knowledge, and support to achieve their goals and create lasting impact in their communities.
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Unique brings more than ten years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, and athlete development. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Sport Management, a Master of Business Administration in Sport Business, and a Sport Industry Essentials certificate. She combines her professional expertise with a lifelong passion for empowering the next generation of leaders.
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For Unique, UBC Sports Foundation is more than a nonprofit, it's the organization she wishes had existed when she was a student-athlete. Every program, partnership, and mentorship opportunity is built on the belief that every young athlete deserves someone who believes in them, guides them, and helps them realize what's possible.
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Our Story
UBC Sports Foundation was created by Unique Connor, a former student-athlete who is a first generation college graduate that had to figure her athletic recruitment journey out on her own. This foundation was originally created to help student-athletes and parents that need knowledge and assistance with the collegiate recruitment process. To ensure they have all the guidance, information and resources needed to make the right choices and create the path they want to achieve.
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Our main focus is still the development of the student-athlete, but we have expanded into the sport business development realm, to assist in every area of sports.
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