It’s tough to say who was more excited at the unveiling of the newly renovated locker room for UAB women’s basketball: the student-athletes or donors Bill and Jackie Tevendale and Lois Luther.

Tammi Thomas spent four years running for the UAB cross country and track teams on an athletic scholarship, and she never slowed down.

While the UAB Blazers football team was shattering records in its triumphant comeback season, Blazer Boosters was breaking new ground itself, surpassing $9.5 million in contributions to the UAB Athletics Foundation.

It is my honor to thank you for the generosity you’ve shown our university—and the people of Alabama—through your gifts to The Campaign for UAB.

As 2018 comes to a close, the future of UAB is brighter—1 billion times brighter, in fact.