Meeting the March 15 deadline helps our staff provide the best possible customer service, helps ensure fairness and enables the department to deliver the fiscal accountability you deserve. By indicating your intent to renew your Ahearn Fund membership by March 15, you guarantee retention of your current seating and parking location, provided you meet the minimum contribution level for the seating and parking area, renew your season tickets, and fulfill your balance by June 15. March 15 is also the date which priority points are calculated for football seating and parking upgrades.

Additionally, having contributions in by March 15 helps the department accurately project cash flow, which assists with the budgeting process for the coming athletic year. The budgeting process begins in March, with a completed budget published in late June.

To maintain our fiscal responsibility and accountability, it is critical that the department can accurately project revenue for planning and budgeting purposes. The department’s budget process begins in March each year and the books are closed on June 30. Once the fiscal year ends, an annual report detailing how your gifts were utilized will be prepared and distributed to all Ahearn Fund members. Of course, you may complete your pledge in full at any time prior to the June 15 deadline.

It is important to meet the deadlines established to ensure that you retain your current seats and parking. If you miss these deadlines, your seats and parking will be placed on our open seating/parking list and if there is a request that matches any open seats, we will move those who have met the deadline into the open seats and/or parking stall. This is critical to ensure fair treatment for Ahearn Fund members and season ticket holders and giving those members who meet each deadline an opportunity to improve their seats and/or parking.

You can make monthly payments toward your Ahearn pledge. Equal monthly payments can be charged to your credit card on the date you specify. An important note if you are setting up a monthly payment schedule for the first time: please make sure that 25% of your priority seating contribution is paid by March 15 and the balance is paid by June 15. We will always work to accommodate your requests and preferences regarding payment schedules. Please call the Ahearn Fund office at 888-232-9074 to personally discuss your options.

Priority points are credited only as dollars are received. Completing your gift by March 15 means that you will get priority point credit for the entire amount of the gift, which will improve your seats and/or parking. Points will be calculated on March 15 and those totals will be used for football seating and parking upgrades. Points calculated on June 15 will be used for men’s and women’s basketball seating and parking upgrades.

All gifts to the Ahearn Fund earn priority points, which determine the order in which Ahearn Fund member’s season ticket and parking are placed, as well as distribution of tickets for high-demand events. Priority points are awarded per every $100 gift to the Ahearn Fund, as well as per season ticket purchased.

Priority Points are calculated four (4) times per year on the following important dates:

• March 15 – Football seating and parking requests and football away game seating allocation and assignment
• June 15 – Men’s and Women’s basketball seating and parking requests
• December 2 (TBD)– Postseason football (Bowl game seating allocation and assignment)
• December 31 – Postseason basketball (Men’s and Women’s Big 12 Tournament and NCAA Tournament seating allocation and assignment)

Yes, the Ahearn Fund is Kansas State's National Fund for Student-Athlete Excellence. As a member of the Ahearn Fund, you join thousands of other K-Stater's who collectively contribute to excellence at K-State. Your support at any level provides the resources necessary to provide academic support services, sport specific equipment, sport medicine, nutritional guidance, strength and conditioning, and travel for all student-athletes. Those dollars allow the department to provide a world-class student-athlete experience, maintain and provide on-going facility upgrades, attract and retain great coaches, and enable a national recruiting reach. At the same time we pledge to operate in a fiscally responsible and transparent manner.