Medical Entrepreneur Trisha Bailey is making a sizable donation to the University Of Connecticut. With a net worth of $700 million, Bailley, born in Jamaica has made the largest athletic donation in the university’s history toward the renovation of Greer Fieldhouse. The undisclosed amount is towards a new building called the “Bailey Student Athlete Success Center” according to the CT Insider.
As she opened the new building at the University over the weekend, Bailey gave a speech encouraging women to fix each other’s crown. She posted a clip of the speech on her instagram with the caption: “I WANT US ALL TO WIN, THAT IS MY HOPE. This past weekend @uconnhuskies (University of Connecticut) announced the naming of their new athletic facility “BAILEY’S STUDENT ATHLETIC SUCCESS CENTER”. I am honored and blessed to have this legacy in the Bailey’s Family. Thank you once again UCONN for choosing me.”
The 45 year old who now lives in Orlando, Florida owns and operates Bailey’s Medical Equipment & Supplies, which include a chain of Pharmacies, located in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. She controls real estate in multiple territories include a “small island” off the coast of Jamaica among other locations overseas.
With her net-worth inching closer toward a billion USD, Bailey is one of the richest Black women in America and she dubs herself “the richest woman in Jamaica’s history”, a fact she says she became aware of only recently. Bailey and her companies are among the global leaders in the medical equipment industry. In Jamaican currency her net-worth is more than $107 billion.
Trisha Bailey
“I’m the wealthiest woman in the history of Jamaica,” Bailey said. “I just found that out a few weeks ago. So, that’s pretty cool,” she told the CT Insider’s Mike Anthony.
Dr. Bailey plans to release a book titled “Unbroken,” next summer which chronicles her rags to riches story including her walking distances to go to school as a child as well as surviving domestic abuse.
The mother of five(one adopted) owns the largest equestrian farm in Florida but long before that she says she grew up in Jamaica without electricity or running water before moving to the U.S at age 13.
“It was a better life,” she said about making the move from Jamaica to America. “Even though we were in these apartment buildings that are as low-income as you can imagine — we lived in a one-bedroom apartment, and my sister and I slept on the pullout sofa — for me, it was, ‘OK, I have electricity, I don’t have to go outside to use the bathroom.’ I was in luxury land. I didn’t know at the time that we were not rich.”
Trisha Bailey, UConn Class of 1999, is a former Huskies track athlete out of Weaver High in Hartford.
The former athlete says of her alma mater, “I had so much support while I was there(UConn), on and off the track, in areas that you wouldn’t imagine that a university or staff cares enough to embrace,” Bailey said. “I feel like I gained a couple moms while I was there.”
