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We have not offered a "new alumni" package in the past.  This past year we did offer a number of "mini packs" in order to make attending more reasonable from a financial and time stand point.  The intent was to make it easier for people to experience Valpo basketball with the hope they would enjoy themselves and return.  The packages were successful and did get new people into the ARC, some of whom have indicated already that they will be coming back more often.

In the "team sports", men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, volleyball, softball, and baseball we are either at the NCAA limit for scholarships or close.  When we added men's and women's golf (as well as bowling) we were able to provide scholarships at levels equal to the schools against which we compete most often.

Our other programs, men's and women's track&field/cross country, men's and women's swimming, and men's and women's tennis, all have limited scholarships.  The NCAA limits for track&field and swimming are pretty high which is why the private schools in the Horizon League either don't compete in those sports or are selective in how they go about it.  For instance neither Loyola or Detroit has swimming and Butler only has a women's team with no scholarships.

The golf teams have made very good progress in the first 2 years of competition and will continue to get better.  At the Horizon League championships this year the men competed with 3 sophomores and 2 freshmen and the women competed with 1 sophomore and 4 freshman.   

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