Our Mission - DePaul University Athletics

Primary to our purpose is to maximize the great potential of our students by exposing them to the wide variety of recreation, intramural and intercollegiate programs so vital to their total education. Complementing their more formal classroom education, the Athletic Department strives to teach and develop lifelong values inherent in the Vincentian character: integrity, leadership, competition, loyalty, cooperation, fair-play, self-confidence, sacrifice and physical fitness among others. At the same time, athletic participation brings together men and women students from diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural and geographic backgrounds, possessing various unique skills, working together towards common success and a commitment to excellence. Furthermore, athletics provides the campus community, our urban neighbors in Chicago, and alumni the opportunity for participation in the form of recreation and as spectators for intercollegiate competition.

The Athletic Department also has a unique opportunity and responsibility, as the most visible messenger of the DePaul story, to represent the highest qualities and standards of our education to an observant community, state and nation. A clear, positive exposure of DePaul University, through athletics, can enhance the University's mission and image and directly affect the quality of faculty, enrollment and development.

Not unimportant to our Mission is the emotion, school spirit and morale, so crucial to the soul of the University, that can be uplifted through participation in athletics.