Players fundraise gear

Sports teams take initiative to lower costs of equipment for players

Sports teams always have to try to find ways to fundraise money to pay off all gear and fees.

As for many teams, coaches and players work together to fundraise all the money they can to

Schedule

Oct. 7 to Oct. 14

Water Polo

Wednesday, Oct. 7 vs. LA Valley, 3:30 p.m.

Soccer

Friday, Oct. 9 at Santa Barara, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 13 at Hancock, 4 p.m.

Football

Saturday, Oct. 10 vs. Orange Coast, 6 p.m.

Volleyball pay their dues.

Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Santa Barbara, 6 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 9 vs. Ventura, 6 p.m.

“We try to fundraise where they don’t have to take anything from their own pocket,” said baseball head coach Bill Picketts. “The first fundraiser we do is a certain amount of money. Some kids can afford it and some kids can’t. If they come up to me, we find a way to work it out.”

Every team’s goal is to reach the certain amount that’s needed and have the players pay anything from their own pocket. Picketts explains how it’s tough for some kids to fundraise the exact amount they need, but he shows that everything is a team effort and no one is on their own. Financially, not everyone is stable and it’s not easy when players have to pay for their jerseys.

“Last year we had to pay for our own uniforms,” said freshman volleyball player Garrett DeGrasse. “Last year the fundraising was pretty bad so most of us had to pay a bunch of money.” communication level was lower than it normally is. In order to fi nd a result we have to communicate and play better”.

The volleyball team is going to work harder on the fundraising by contacting a company to receive sponsored advertisements and get a certain percentage amount of money. Degrasse expressed on how athletes shouldn’t have to pay for their playing time and to possibly get priority registrations for classes.

Men’s volleyball head coach Lance Walker had an idea about printed sponsorships on their uniforms for the past few years. Other ideas he included are brochures and some help from corporate companies within the area.

“Currently each sport has a different budget, and not to speak for other programs, but pretty much every program has to fundraise something because the budget that is given to us is very minimal from the school,” Walker said.

Walker stated that within the past 2 years the volleyball program had a 100 percent transfer rate. Hard work pays off and to continue that they need to work together by paying their fees and doing good in school.

“I’m hoping that they are kind of getting in the process of allowing us to actually use our facilities here to hopefully generate money,” Walker said. With an assist to their problem the team would be able use their gym and host a tournament.

Women’s volleyball head coach, Nabil Mardini, is also having problems fundraising money for their gears and other expenses.

Wednesday, Oct. 14 at Mission, 6 p.m.