June 2024

To our ELHS Sports Boosters Supporters,

As we close out the '23-24 school year we want to say THANK YOU to all of our volunteers that helped through-out the year with our concession stands! The concession stands are a huge undertaking and they provide the majority of our income for our annual budget.  Volunteers come early, stay late and make sure our fans get what they need to cheer on our Mustangs! This year we raised $46,753 in concession stand profit!

For the upcoming year we are looking for a few people to head up our volunteer sign-up sheets for our Fall, Winter & Spring Sports.  This would include setting up the new sign-up geniuses and sending them out to the different sports teams.  We could also use help with tracking inventory and purchases of our concession stand supplies! And of course we always need volunteers to help during the games! If you are interested please check those boxes when you complete the annual boosters sign-up form!

We would also like to thank our families that utilize the matching donation program through their work.  This year we had over $13,000 donated to us through Corporate Matching! These donations alone were able to pay for the New Industrial Dryer and the Swim Fee Lanes that were on the Athletics Wish List.  The Industrial Dryer serves multiple sports and our last dryer was in dire need of replacement! Since we don't have a pool Sports Boosters assisted EL Athletics by paying for Swim Lane Fees so our Swim Team could have practice.

With our remaining funds raised this year we were able to assist a few of our Sports Programs with Team Fundraisers, we gifted Hampton Good, Tatum Martin & Payton Ross with college scholarships totaling $6000 as they prepare to attend school at the next level, and we assisted Coach Mackel's effort to provide two more tennis courts at ELHS (working with Lowe's, Lincoln County School Board & EL Athletics) so East Lincoln will be able to host Tennis Conference Tournaments for Boys and Girl's tennis.  In addition we also helped with charter buses, conference gear, press box fundraising, Improvements to our concession stand equipment & end of season athletic awards for all the sports. We also worked with United Bank to get a high interest rate for our Money Market Accounts so could be strong stewards of our money raised as we work to build accounts for future large projects needed by East Lincoln Athletics. 

This year was a very successful year and we look forward to a strong year next year as well! Every year we ask our families to re-sign up for Sports Boosters. There is no membership fee to join but we do ask for support with volunteering with our concession stands and we welcome your attendance at our monthly booster meetings. Sign-up each year will ensure you stay on our communication list for emails and meeting updates! 

We hope all of our families, friends and supporters have a wonderful summer and we will see everyone back in August!  Please follow us on our NEW Facbook Page (elhssportsboosters) our NEW Instagram Page (elhssportsboosters) and our X (formerly Twitter) @ElhsSports to keep up to date with us through the summer!

Thank you,

Erin Beasley

ELHS Sports Boosters President