Houston High School Track Booster Club

Spring 2009

About the club:

·  The Houston High School Cross Country/Track and Field Booster Club is a volunteer, parent run organization established to support the Boys’ running programs at Houston High School. The Shelby County Public School system lacks the funding to provide what is necessary to run a successful program. The majority of the funds comes from the HHS

Cross County/Track Booster Club.

The Booster Club helps in the following ways:

·  Pays for the Coaches’ Travel expenses (3 coaches)

·  Assists with student/athlete’s travel expenses

·  Organizes and assists in hosting home track meets.

·  Plans and helps fund the end of year banquet to honor seniors, student athletes and coaches

·  Purchases track and field equipment

·  Helps purchase awards, trophies, and incentives

·  Provides an award-winning program that helps our students learn, compete and grow as young adults

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The HHS Cross Country/Booster Club Board

The club’s board is comprised of four volunteer positions:

Treasurer, Sally McLaughlin

Secretary, Terri Denison

President, Rich Bernstein

Vice President - open.

As one can see, we are a small organization and cannot “run” this alone. We need your time (just a little) and financial support.

Dues:

In this tough economy we are trying to keep dues low:

·  Dues per family, (one or more sons on the team) - $150 per family

·  Dues if you have a son on the boys’ team and a daughter on the girls’ team - $125 per family

To help fund the program and keep costs low, we host a variety of fund-raisers. These fund-raisers for 2009 enable us to keep dues at a minimum and include:

·  Cookie dough sales

·  Auctioning off a pool table on Craig’s list

·  Possible Houston Track night at Quiznos

·  Entrance fees to meets and concession stand sales

Benefits for Paid Members:

·  End of Year Banquet free for Senior runners

·  Two season passes for home track meets

·  E-mail notification of meets and events

·  The knowledge that you have helped make the spring track season a success for your student/athlete

·  Free HHS Track T-Shirt