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About Us
The Northwestern University Triathlon Club Team has around forty active members. For each of these members, the triathlon team has become a big part of his or her college experience, and has been a major factor in academic, social, and physical health throughout all of their time on the team. We spend between 8–12 hours of the week training during the school year, travel throughout the Midwest for competitions, and regularly engage with the campus. As our school year begins, a successful summer competition season has inspired our team to train harder this fall and work to increase awareness and resources for new students interested in triathlon.
About Our Project
Our main goal is to introduce as many students as we can to the sport of triathlon. To do so, we need your help. One of the biggest barriers to entering triathlons is the high cost of the clothing and equipment, as well as race fees. To completely clothe and equip a triathlete just beginning in the sport, it costs around $2,000. This often stops individuals from lower-income households from participating in the sport. To relieve this burden, the NU Triathlon Team is planning on subsidizing, and if possible buying, uniforms for the entire team and a couple of team bikes, as well as paying race fees. This will allow everyone who has trained with us during all five months of winter to participate in this amazing sport. Subsidizing race fees is a great way to introduce novices to the sport and make it easier for dedicated triathletes to compete at the collegiate level.
Why Your Support Matters
We have had members who want to stay on the team and compete but who are unable to because of their financial situation. This isn’t fair to them or to our team. Any amount you can spare will go a long way toward bringing triathlon into more lives. Thank you all so much for your help with our goal of alleviating the financial burden and enabling our triathletes in pursuing their desire to compete at the collegiate triathlon stage! Please share our project with any friends and family you think would be interested, too.
Help our triathletes swim faster by making them more aerodynamic in the water!
Help keep our triathletes energized during the 2.5 hour long race!
Northwestern shirts for the team to train in help us look and feel like a team!
When we go to races in the cold, we need clothes we can train and warm up in!
Help pay the way of one of our triathletes to compete in one of our races!
Get our triathletes clipped into their bike pedals for a faster race!
Keep a triathlete streamlined and warm in the cold water with a wetsuit!
Help dress and provide all the equipment for one member of the team!
