All Sports Booster Club donates $9,000 to SCS Athletics
School sports and athletics provide benefits
beyond physical fitness. Students build self-confidence and school
pride, learn teamwork, develop problem-solving skills, learn positive
personal habits, and form friendships with their peers. And they have
fun, too. Their families and the larger community benefit as well.
On July 12, All Sports Booster Club President Ann
Bevins and Past President and Coordinator of Fund Raising Barb Sharpe
presented a generous, $9,000 donation to the Schoharie Central School
Board of Education to enable the district to continue offering several
Junior Varsity (JV) sports and Varsity cheerleading, activities that had
to be cut from the school budget. The JV sports include girls
volleyball, girls and boys soccer, girls and boys basketball, girls
softball and boys baseball.
In the past, the Booster Club has raised money for
uniforms, banners, transportation and other sports-related needs. This
year, the club is looking to raise approximately $26,000 for funding all
three seasons of athletics at the JV level. The money will be used for
transportation costs, officiating fees, entry fees for tournaments and
coaching stipends. According to Sharpe, the Club is looking beyond that.
“We are raising money to cover things that can’t be
funded by the school budget,” Sharpe noted. “Sports are important, but
academics come first, so we are glad to be able to work for our teams.”
The community’s response to Booster Club activities
has been overwhelmingly positive, with many contributing beyond what’s
asked of them, according to Sharpe. “Not only have people, businesses
and organizations made monetary donations on their own, even by creating
their own fund-raisers, but they are also volunteering their time and
participation.”
Booster Club fund-raisers have included a car wash,
golf tournament and basketball and volleyball mini-camps. Since July 3,
the Club has raised more than $800 through “You’ve Been Flocked.” A pink
plastic flamingo is placed on a lawn, with a sign explaining why, until
$5 is donated for it to be removed, or until $10 is donated for choosing
where it will next migrate. Money also has been raised through a chicken
barbecue, Booster Club benefit night at Jay Lacey’s Salon, concert
donations from the Schoharie Promotional Association, and even a 60th
birthday party for people born in May.
The All Sports Booster Club’s mission is “to support
the athletes and coaches of Schoharie Sports, involve parents, coaches
and athletes in Club activities in order to promote school spirit, and
provide funding to supplement the needs of the athlete.”
Schoharie Director of Athletics and Assistant
Principal Jamie Rockhill said, “The SCS All Sports Booster Club has
helped with so many things over the years, but what they are doing now
is really incredible. The way the club has brought the community
together and worked so hard to fund JV sports, so that these SCS
student-athletes will have the opportunity to compete, is AWESOME! On
behalf of the more than 100 student-athletes this affects, I would like
to say thank you.”
