Starting Booster Club

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We are currently looking to start a booster club to support our high school and club wrestling. It would be helpful to have any input to this process that experienced people can provide.

 

Thanks!

[jakesdad]

We are currently looking to start a booster club to support our high school and club wrestling. It would be helpful to have any input to this process that experienced people can provide.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Glad to help you if I can. Send me an email with your telephone number and a good time for me to call.

Tim Young

youngtim@comcast.net

[wrestlemom]

Get with your school to see what if any requirements they may have first. Another club, sport, cultural arts boosters could help you as well. The local PTA could also help, bylaws, treasurer records, fundraisers, legalities. That is all a part of National PTA, to educate parents in these (and of course other) areas.

[THEANIMAL]

SOME BOOSTER CLUBS ARE GREAT, SOME ARE NOT. THERE ARE SOME CLUBS THAT THE COACH FEELS LIKE HE CREATED A MONSTER.

 

I COACHED FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AND NEVER HAD A BOOSTER CLUB. BUT, I HAD GREAT PARENT HELP AND SUPPORT. MOST PARENTS HAVE TOO MUCH TO DO ALREADY. VERY FEW WILL STEP UP AND TAKE ON SOMETHING LIKE BEING THE BOOSTER CLUB PRESIDENT. WHAT IF THE PRESIDENT'S SON LOOSES THE NEXT WRESTLE-OFF? I NEVER WANTED TO GIVE THE PARENTS THAT MUCH CONTROL OVER MY PROGRAM. I WAS THE COACH SO I WAS IN CHARGE OF WHAT WENT ON. I WAS THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRES, SECRETARY AND TRESURER OF OUR "BOOSTER CLUB".

 

I CONCIDERED MY GROUP OF PARENTS AS "THE WRESTLING PARENT ORGINIZATION" AND THERE WERE NO DUES. IF YOU HAD A STUDENT ON THE TEAM YOU WERE A MEMBER. I WOULD SET-UP COMMITEES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEARS AND HAVE MEETINGS EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS. THE PARENTS THAT WANTED TO HELP WOULD TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE AND THE OTHERS WOULD DO THE MINIMUM. I EXPECTED EVERY PARENT TO DO SOMETHING. IF THEY COULD NOT FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO, THERE WAS ALWAYS TRASH TO TAKE OUT AND TOILETS TO CLEAN AT TOURNAMENTS AND HOME MATCHES. NO PARENT EVER REALLY KNEW HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAD IN THE WRESTLING ACCOUNT AND NO ONE EVER QUESTIONED THE PROCESS.

 

THE ANIMAL