Alexis Ohanian shouldn’t be solely probably the most profitable businessmen within the United States, he’s additionally among the many most beneficiant. Since marrying Serena Williams, Ohanian has sought numerous methods to advertise girls’s sports activities, as he simply did with a beneficiant donation to his alma mater’s basketball group, the Virginia Cavaliers.
As one of many founders of Reddit, Ohanian has accrued a private internet price of around $150 million. After leaving the well-known social community board in 2020 as a consequence of variations within the administration of the corporate, Ohanian has devoted himself to championing numerous causes, together with equality in girls’s sports activities.
Amongst his efforts on this space, the businessman created the completely girls’s observe and area league Athlos, whose first competitors was held this previous September 26 in New York. Persevering with down this path, Ohanian lately made a big donation to the College of Virginia (UVA) girls’s basketball group.
There could be no Reddit with out UVA
In a submit on his X account (previously Twitter), Ohanian stated, “It has been an excellent 12 months for me with Reddit going public, and there could be no Reddit with out the College of Virginia, so it made sense that my first huge funding in girls’s basketball could be at my alma mater.”
He additionally stated he was proud to contribute to the event of girls’s basketball at his college and emphasised, “We’re gonna guarantee that we’re among the many prime applications within the nation.”
This isn’t the primary time that Ohanian has proven his dedication to girls’s sports activities. Along with Athlos, the businessman is the founding father of Angel Metropolis FC, a Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League group, majority owned by girls, together with Serena Williams and actress Natalie Portman.
UVA to place donation to good use
Though the quantity of the donation has not been disclosed, press stories declare it’s the largest donation within the historical past of the college’s girls’s basketball program. The Virginia Athletics Basis defined that it’ll use the donation “to raise recruiting and participant retention efforts.”
UVA Athletics Director Carla Williams praised Ohanian’s dedication to girls’s sports activities. “He sees the worth and he’s prepared to take a position. His assist will assist appeal to championship expertise to the College of Virginia and particularly, to UVA girls’s basketball,” Williams stated.
