“The creation of Arizona Sports Enterprises will allow Arizona Athletics to strengthen its connections with corporate sponsors, enhance the value of the Arizona Athletics brand and allow the athletic department to focus on delivering even more value to our partners,” said Reid Francois. “A strong financial model is essential to continue providing a first-class experience for our student-athletes to compete at the highest level, develop as champions in the classroom and make the University of Arizona proud. We thank Learfield, our longtime rights holder, for their support of our student-athletes and athletic department over the years.”
ASE will partner with Learfield as the exclusive third-party national distributor.
About the Arizona Athletics
With a championship history spanning more than a century, Arizona Athletics has won 22 team national championships and 201 individual NCAA titles. Arizona sponsors 22 sports programs and will officially join the Big 12 Conference in 2024. The athletic department has achieved record-breaking academic success in recent years, posting its highest-ever Graduate Success Rate (GSR) scores and department grade point averages.
The Wildcats won five team conference championships in 2023-24, the most Pac-12 titles Arizona has won in a single year since joining the conference in 1978. Four Arizona student-athletes were named Pac-12 Scholar-Athletes of the Year this year, along with two Academic All-Americans.
