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Oelwein Booster Club
Sept. 2nd, 2026 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present:Jim P, Lindsay R, Terry R, Sarah M, Nate W, Nick L, Jenna C, Jason Y, Collin M, Ryan D, Jason G, Chris D, Abbi B, Kali E Secretary Report: Available from Sarah to read Treasurer Report: Terry Presented Ad Report: The high school scoreboard is not always working right. One scoreboard would stop working, but the other one would keep going, then the other scoreboard would quit working, and the other one would keep going. It was reported that this has been going on for years. Requests received to either renew Volt, other options to consider are Teambuilder ($600 more) and Platform. Due to time constraints, there was no time to dive into researching these other options, but we will only renew one year instead of 3 years this time. The ask is to split the cost with the Booster Club, full cost is $1350, so $675. Every coach will have access and up to 250 athletes, which is more than enough. Coaches Open Forum: Outside batting cages-This has been on the agenda for years, with it falling between the school, city, and a variety of issues. Gutter and down spots were done last year which helped, but there is still an issue with water. It is not cemented. Cement would be a couple thousand easy. Austin Conner has permission from his boss to help us out at close to an at cost price. A new cage is $4000-6000. Turf depending on where we find it, is another 10 to 12, and needs a couple trailers and skidsteer available. There is also the Fayette County Community Foundation that does grants for non-profit organizations like schools. Grants can be submitted for up to $10,000 by October 15th. Terry is on the board. You have to have 25% of matching funds from other entities. So someone on behalf of the school with the interest and knowledge of what is needed for this project, ie coaches could write a Grant. Terry can’t be involved, but recommended to include other things into the Grant like a shooting system or maybe hydration stations that would benefit many people. Since we are not a 501 c3 it would have to come through the school. Charlene Stocker may help write that grant. The Baseball club would have funds that could help with the 25% needed to cover. Expanding on the shooting systems Mo and Yessek are looking for- it is something that is attached to the back of the backboard that gives instant feedback on the shot and pulls reports from that. The shooting system is more like $15,000-20,000, so that would not be something to tie in with the batting cage grant. Thanks to Nick, Jim Prouty and Collin Morgan for all their help with the Cross Country Meet. Old Business: Athlete of the Month: Got confirmation that Pizza Ranch will be our Sponsor again. Emails will go out to all the coaches on the 15th. If we get submissions. We will vote and awards will be able to be given. Fall Fund Drive: Terry reports there are 80 donors as of today. Over $10,000 from businesses and almost $6000 from individuals. A tremendous turnout! The total today is 16,225. This is the first time in many years since we have made or exceeded our goal of $15,000. Expenses total 4.323.91 for yard sign ($714) and activity passes to date (3,609.75), leaving 11,901.09 profit for the Fall Fund Drive. More signs have been ordered and arriving soon to be distributed to those due to get them. Program design for the games were discussed acknowledging all the donors. New Business: Thank you read from Caleb Detimmerman for the scholarship he received from us. Motion made and carried to pay $675 for Volt program. Open Forum: Deback wants to do a tournament fundraiser in November. Details coming next meeting. Our old Blackstone grill is for sale from our Concession stand for $50. Many attempts have been made to find someone interested, so it is asked if anyone here wants it for $50. Chris says he is interested. Trivia night to be discussed at the next meeting. Adjourn: 7:16pm Next Meeting: October 7th, 2026 6:30pm
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Oelwein Booster Club
Aug 5th, 2026 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present: Jim, Ryan, Lindsay, Sarah, Terry, Chaps, Emily, Abby, and Katelyn Engstom Secretary Report: Presented by Sarah Treasurer Report: Presented by Terry Detailed financial reports of May, June, July, and August highlighting monthly gains and current balances were reported. May’s balance was 22.908.42. June’s balance was $29,000.53, gaining just over $6000 due to summer concessions. July’s balance was $30,337.85. A gain of a little over $1300. August’s balance is $30,437.14. The golf tournament raised $1,922. Vanco is up and running. The new card machine was provided by Fidelity at no cost for the machine. It will cost a discounted rate of $20 monthly. Also, we can have it activated for just the month we want to use it. With the use of the card machine we are required to post that there will be a 3% processing fee for credit cards and no fee for debit cards. We can use it for the Fall Fund Drive and for concessions next summer. The middle school received $917.38 for athletic needs. The Class of 2026 has until Sept.1st to claim their Fall Concession account balance of $400 by transferring it into their own account. Many reminders and different people (kids and parents) had been contacted about this. They are the last of the fall concession accounts from 2024 to be paid out. Arnt Memorial has $1218 left of their $1500 dedicated funds that is not spendable out of our $30,000 balance. Jason Gearhart is in charge of this account money for cross country. AD Report: None Coaches Open Forum: Coach Emily reported that 9 VB girls just got back from the Wartburg Volleyball Camp. Regular season starts Monday. Numbers are projected to be about 20, similar to last year. Old Business: Athlete of the Month-Presented by Lindsay. None for Summer. A couple of businesses have been reached out to to sponsor the Athlete of the Month for this school year Summer Concessions- presented by Terry Concessions netted $7,023.41, a 50.6% return. Which is the most we have netted per year since 2021. The grill this year (half paid for by the school) was not taken out of concessions, because we will use it multiple years by the booster club and the school. Skewing some of the numbers from previous years is that the ice machine was taken out of concessions to explain some of the numbers being lower those years between 21 and this year and last year the weather was very rainy. Fall Fund Drive-Presented by Terry All donations have come through Vanco so far. We’ve had 13 donations so far for $1,750. Only $100 has been deposited into our account so far. Last year there were only 12 total donations in all through Vanco. We have signs this year for anyone who donates more than $100 this year. Activity passes are available through donations too and window clings. Terry has a document shared with the officers of who gets what and who has received them. There is also a list of donors so far compiled. We have one in kind donation between the Booster Club and the Oelwein Grande Theatre. They have the Top Dog $1000 designation and will receive everything except the activity passes. In turn they will have a spot for us to promote our Booster Club Donor Board ( everyone who donates $50 or more) before every movie for 6 months from January to June. Lindsay reported that she is waiting to hear back from Linda Payne that the cards are done. She will have an inKind donation at the gold level. A copy of the Sponsorship levels and the QR code have been sent to the Newspaper and they will put that in the paper for us at no charge per Rob Casey. Terry intends to post on Facebook anyone who donates $50 or higher, a weekly list of donors. Jim will take cards to the athletic meeting if they are done by the 19th. New Business: A $500 stipend was approved for Zach Miller for the summer lifting program. $1000 was allocated to the middle school for athletic needs other than uniforms. Adjourned: 7:12pm Next Meeting: Sept. 2nd, 2026 Oelwein Booster Club
May 6th, 2026 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present: Jim, Lindsay R, Sarah, Terry, Chaps, Marty , Lindsay K, Abby, Nate and son, Deana and Caleb, Cody Oakes Secretary Report: Presented by Sarah Treasurer Report: Presented by Jim Beginning Balance $25,476.45. Withdrawals: $780 for Cornerstone team sport and Rev track for 215 plus bank fee. Payables outstanding $800 for Fall Concessions, Cross Country $1500 from Dick Arnt Memorial. No Receivables. Current balance $24,695.32 AD Report: Spring sports are winding down, Track has Conference meet tomorrow and State qualifier next week.Boys Tennis has districts soon, Golf girls and boys have gotten their assignments today. Nick Lampheir is taking over the AD position next year. Chaps expressed thanks to all of those who have helped him along the way the last couple years. The Booster Club thanked Chaps. Coaches open forum:None Old Business: Athlete of the month: April-Caleb DeTimmerman Caleb is a Senior out for track. Scholarships- The girl and boy scholarships were scored and unanimously agreed upon. They will be announced next week. Summer Concessions- An email was sent out today to Coaches outlining expectations for signing up for working concessions. Sign up genius app is being used for this. The concessions at the ball complex is needing 2 new roosters and a crockpot. Terry made a motion to allocate up to $200 to purchase these items. Lindsay 2nd it and the motion was carried. Lindsay K has been busy ordering food and supplies for the summer concessions. A change from last year for the Cyclones. Last year they were 12oz and she charged us $3 and we sold them for $5. This year she only has 8oz and is charging us $2.75. Planning on selling them for $4 and see how they sell. People signing up would need an adult griller for the evening games. More people are needed to work evenings than morning games. Shift times can be adjusted as needed. Also Chaps reports that there is excess pop and candy from the track season as we ended up hosting 1 of the 3 trackmeets scheduled. Booster Club can purchase some of these items and rest can be sent back or donated. New Business: Election of officers:Jim nominated to remain president, motion by Terry, 2nd by Lindsay R., motion carried. Lindsay R nominated to remain Vice President, motioned by Sarah, 2nd by Terry , motion carried. Terry would accept the position of Treasurer, nominated by Sarah, 2nd by Lindsay R, motion carried. Sarah nominated to remain Secretary, 2nd by Terry, motion carried. Chaps Middle School-Mohlis got prices on supplies for the middle school that he thinks the coaches need up there after input from all the coaches. For football, they are asking for a high step agility trainer for $274, for volleyball, they are asking for 5-8 new volleyballs, which he thinks he can get from Iowa Sports supplies for $200, for basketball, 4-5 new basketballs for $375, and for baseball, one helmet. The total for Middle school supplies comes to $909. The Booster Club has allocated $1000 to the Middle School in the past and would like to continue to do so each year. Lindsay made a motion to approve the list presented for the middle school, 2nd by Terry, motion carried. Open Forum: Chaps: Legislators just passed that as of August 1st, 8th graders may be able to play high school sports. More information will come available at the May 14th and June 13th meeting. So the uniform order will be on hold to make sure we order what is needed after we can evaluate how this is going to impact us. It should not take very long to get the uniforms once ordered, so we have time. Marty Rosensteil: Tim Mahoney has agreed to do a golf Clinic July 17th and 18th at Hickory Grove for all who want to come from our community and surrounding areas. He will do it at no cost. Participants will be asked for a Free Will donation. Tim would then match any donations made and have it all go to the booster club, not just golf. Hoping to get help from the booster club with getting the word out,portable bleachers or something like that, a speaker system to use, and a back up place if there is rain that day. Wanting to honor Bob Downs, Richard Clapp, and Kim Doyle. After the clinic there will be a band, followed by a tournament the next day. Also wondered he wondered if we could come up with apparel with an Oelwein Alumni theme to sell starting with the golf tournament. Cody Oakes: Hosting a baseball tournament May 30-31, with about 20-30 teams, 8U all the way up to 13U. He wondered if the booster club would like to run the concession stand. Boosters could stock the concessions and find help to run in for those 2 days.Depending on how successful it is we could then look into donating some of the funds for the middle school. Cody is going to need 4-5 mounds for this. Junior High (the school) is going to need a big mound and the booster club is inclined to buy this and let the Youth Association keep their purchases and donations completely separate from the schools. Boys Middle School Track team: A parent approached us to consider purchasing regular plain black shorts to wear instead of the compression shorts. The parent states some of the boys are uncomfortable wearing the compression ones, so they are wearing their own regular black shorts now. They will be wearing the compression ones when they get to high school. Adjourned: 7:22pm Next Regular Meeting: Wednesday August 5th Oelwein Booster Club
April 8th, 2026 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present: Jim, Lindsay, Ryan, Sarah, Terri, Chaps, Abby, Emily, Mike Secretary Report: Presented by Sarah Treasurer Report: Presented by Ryan Beginning balance for March was $28,966. We brought in $450 in donations this month. There were $3941 of withdrawals made for payments for the icemaker and field paint. Also, a scholarship was paid out. There are approximately $3000 in payables outstanding and it leaves us with $2200 cash on hand. AD Report: Presented by Chaps Healthy numbers reported for Spring sports(Golf, Tennis, & Track) Early in the season the girls shuttle hurdle holds the 5th best time in the state. Coaches Open Forum: None Old Business: Athlete of the Month: Presented by Lindsay. A junior bowler-Madison Driscoll was our sole nominee Scholarships: presented by Terri. Students have until the 25th. Six girls and 3boys have turned in applications. Ryan and Jim offered to help score them. Summer concessions: Lindsay K will help us with the first big stock to get the season going and potentially help us through the season. Lindsay R would like to get the softball and baseball schedules to get a spreadsheet made for the volunteer signup. Chaps will get an email, tagging Lindsay, out to coaches to help with the concession signup process. Lindsay then can help follow up with commitments made. It will again be required for each team to sign up. Chaps says he has a couple already committed to dates on his spreadsheet he can share also. New Business: Election of Officers will be in May. Middle School uniforms -Chaps Quotes have been obtained specifically for middle school volleyball and girls basketball. Still firming up numbers. Basketball is more expensive because it is tops and bottoms both and reversible. Game One quoted us $4800 for 60 girls basketball uniforms. Actually still waiting on Iowa Sports Supply’s basketball quote. For volleyball Game One quoted $2820 for 60 uniforms and Iowa Sports Supply quoted $2160. Game One uses Prevail and Iowa Sports Supply uses Prolook. Both are of similar quality. The school will decide what company will be used and at the May meeting we can discuss it more. Boys middle school pants and boys basketball uniforms have been purchased more recently. Middle school football jerseys and practice jerseys are in need of replacing too. Discussion about what was done in the past for middle school sports equipment. Thought was, we have spent up to $1000 for middle school equipment in a given year. A discussion of the possibility of providing equipment funding for middle school teams as what we have done in the past. Sending an email out to the coaches to find out what is needed would help us create documentation for a list of equipment needed so that adequate and up to date equipment (and uniforms) are maintained. As coaches are reached out too, don’t forget middle school. Middle schoolers are probably more likely to be excited to work in the concessions too. Open Forum: Chick fil A was at a tennis match recently at Union and wondered if that could have better been communicated so that teams and parents /athletes would know about it. Adjourned: 6:57pm Next Regular Meeting: Wednesday May 6th, 2026 6:30pm Oelwein Booster Club
February 4th, 2026 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present:Jim, Lindsay, Sarah, Terry, Collin, Chaps, Emily W, Abbi B, & Elijah King Secretary Report:Presented by Sarah Treasurer’s Report:Emailed by Ryan and read by Jim. The beginning balance was $31,075.72. The ending balance is $22,393 with the payables not yet paid out of that. $14,000 of payables outstanding yet. A $3000 bill for an ice machine for Sacred Heart still hasn't been received. The same machine will be purchased for the middle school. AD Report: Presented by Chaps A big milestone for Girls Bowling, is they had their first win since 2018. Boys conference bowling is today, but Chaps didn't have the results to share yet. The bowling fundraiser was well received that we partnered with. Boys Basketball had a close game last night, that was good to see. Girls basketball had a winning season. Regional matchups will be announced soon. Haydin Becker joined the 1000 point club this season and Kenzie See broke the All time scoring record at Oelwein. For wrestling, Spencer Michels placed 4th at the Conference Tournament for the boys. For girls wrestling, Sophia Egan was Conference Champion, Devin Meyer got 3rd place, and Gracie Shelton was a state qualifier at 140lbs. Fall Banquet is already on the books for next year. This year's banquet was well received and well attended. Middle school boys basketball has been doing well, 8th grade lost a close one here last night and 7th grade has been playing really well. Middle school girls wrestling is in the middle of their season and will see more action as the state tournament wraps up. District boys wrestling is next Saturday. Girls wrestling is wrapping up. Coaches Open Forum: Terri reports that the middle school ice machine needs to be replaced. It is not working anymore and the school is aware this needs to be replaced. Girls middle school basketball will be wanting to order uniforms. The current ones are about 15 yrs old. Brett was going to work on something to present on that, possibly for the next meeting. The boys middle school basketball uniforms were probably replaced about 5 years ago. Girls middle school volleyball uniforms may also need to be replaced. Chaps says there is no document that keeps track of when uniforms have been replaced, but by looking at past yearbook one could be started. Old Business: Athlete of the Month: Elijah King-Senior Varsity Wrestler & Haydin Becker Senior Varsity Basketball player. Both will be receiving a Pizza Ranch Gift Card for a free large pizza. Scholarship: Terry will head this up again. We are finishing up distributing checks from last year to Claire and Ryan and will start the process for this year in March with the same requirements. Summer Concessions: Need to check to see if Lindsay K is interested in helping with the inventory side of things again this year. It was a struggle to have volunteers working in the Concessions. It may need to be closed sometimes if workers can not be found so everyone can watch their kid when they are playing. This continues to be a struggle year round. New Business:Ryan will not be able to be Treasurer after this year. His new job requires him to travel more. Elections for Booster Club Board Members is coming up in May. Open Forum:There is a Middle School basketball trip planned for Feb 14th to Wartburg for the kids to have some fun together. Adjourned:6:49pm Next Regular Meeting:April 1st, 2026 Oelwein Booster Club
December 3rd, 2025 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Secretary Report: Presented by Sarah Treasurer’s Report: Presented by Jim via email by Ryan. AD: Report: Winter Sports competitions have started, with bowling starting in January. Heard good feedback from the Fall Sports Banquet, coaches, athletes, and parents. Coaches Open Forum:Chris Deback presented info on upcoming bowling Fundraiser Old Business: Athlete of the Month: Recognition and cards given October Jenna Bahe Senior Cross Country runner and Landon Dowd Senior Cross Country runner. November: Macey Westendorf: Senior Volleyball player, No male athlete Fall Fund Drive:nothing new to report Fall Sports Banquet:Spring Sports Banquet date to be set for Sunday March 1st,2026, so that it can get on everyone's calendars. The Fall Sports Banquet was well attended, even with the short notice. We counted 125 trays served. Suggestion was made to serve from both sides of the table to decrease the line wait. New Business: None Open Forum:Middle School Ice Machine- if not working, likely just needs reset. Present:Jim, Lindsay, Sarah, Terry, Chaps, Chris, Macey W., Jenna B., Landon D. Adjourned:6:54pm Next Regular Meeting: January 7th, 2026 6:30pm Oelwein Booster Club
Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 2025 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present: Jim, Lindsay, Sarah, Terry, Chaps, Jason, Nate Secretary”s Report: Presented by Sarah Treasurer’s Report: Sent via email Ryan, Presented by Jim Beginning balance of 29,286 and ending at 29,380. Major expenses included the Oelwein Community School District and State Cross Country meals. Income from Fall Fundraiser ($1050) and $7500 committed for various items such as protein bars, drinks, Sacred Heart ice machine, 2023 fall concession accounts, Class of 2026, Class of 2027, FFA, and $1500 for the cross country fund. AD Report: Sacred Heart Ice machine is on its way, due to arrive late this week or early next week. Football finished their season 0-8, bowing out in the 1st round. Volleyball had a good season 12-18, also ending their season in the 1st round. Both programs have a lot of excitement around them right now. The Cross Country team hosted and the boys won Districts and qualified for state. The boys got 3rd at State as a team. Keyshawn Williams placed 4th and Ashlynn Sauser for the girls placed 11th. Winter sports are gearing up. Girls Bowling and Wrestling have started practice. The rest soon to follow. Middle SchoolSports have already started and playa game recently. + Participation numbers are healthy, with around 30 for girls basketball. 40 for boys basketball, and 15 for both wrestling programs and 30 for bowling combined. Middle school practices have begun The Fall Sports Banquet is scheduled for November 16th. Jason will be providing the main dish. The Ice machine at the middle school needs occasional resetting Coaches Open Forum: Rob Casey is the new Sports Editor for the Oelwein Daily Register. He has been prompt about getting articles for the newspaper. There is a need to purchase paint for the cross country and football field Old Business: Athlete of the month: Landon Dowd for cross country and Macy Westendorf for volleyball. New Business: Fall Sports Banquet- Jason is providing/preparing the meat for the sandwiches and the booster club will handle the purchases. The teams are providing the sides and dessert. Needing a rough count yet for numbers expected for the meal. Communication about the banquet will go out on the team’s apps and Facebook which is scheduled for November 16th at 6pm. Open Forum:Inquiry of the Fall Fund Drive and the need for coaches and kids to deliver cards. Possibly use homeroom release to gather kids for deliveries. Updating of business list to be done as needed. Final count of $4,045 raised for the fall drive. Adjourned: 6:58pm Next Meeting: December 3rd, 2025 Oelwein Booster Club
Wednesday, Oct. 1st, 2025 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:35pm Present: (8) Jim, Ryan, Sarah, Terry, Chaps, Chris- bowling coach, Ashlyn, Keshaun Secretary’s Report: Presented by Sarah Treasurer’s Report: Presented by Ryan Big expenses paid were Hit Tracks for $10,000 and $2500 for cheerleading uniforms, with about $900 in donations that came in. Also paid was volleyball’s 2023 concession money. Some of the items left to be paid out are: $1000 for the Sacred Heart ice machine, last year's scholarship recipients, Cross Country money, an outstanding check to Bolten for $450 and concession money for the class of ‘26, the class of ‘27, and FFA . Leaving $21,000 that is unspoken for in our account. AD Report: Presented by Chaps Tennis is done. Lost 1st round, young team this year, but strong showing. Football is in District play. Transitioned to Monday night JV games instead of Fridays. Volleyball is heading into conference play. Cross Country has been doing awesome and we have the conference meet here on the 16th and the State Qualifier is the 23rd. Middle School still is playing Volleyball, football, and running cross country. Coaches Open Forum: None Old Business: Athletes of the Month are Ashlyn Sauser, a Junior Cross Country runner and Keshaun Williams, a senior cross country runner. Both will have their picture taken tonight and presented with a gift card to Pizza Ranch. Fall Fund Drive: Muse on Main has offered to be our host site for our Booster Club Apparel Store. We would run an online store and order a few extras of the more popular items in the most popular sizes that they would keep on hand. We would be able to settle up with them if any coupons or store credit is used there and they would possibly donate a portion of the proceeds to us. We have about $5300 so far of mostly individual donations, not many businesses. Plans to follow up on the businesses are in process. A document is being updated with the progress. Reminders need to be sent out again to coaches for the cards to be picked up. Cheerleaders have picked some up recently. Chaps may catch up with some of them or put a bunch into their mailboxes. New Business: Bowling would like to have a Nine pin bowling tournament fundraiser. Possibly in January or early February. Coach Chris would like to partner with us so that alcohol can be sold and cash prizes could be done. The bowling team will do all the work. He would like to run the money through the Booster Club. He does not need money to set up, just support and getting the word out. Coach is familiar with how this fundraiser is planned as he did it in West Union last year and had estimates for a profit and expenses overview. Many details of this event were provided and he foresees a $3000+ profit. Open Forum:None Adjourned: 6:59pm Next Regular Meeting: Nov. 5th, 2025 6:30pm Oelwein Booster Club
Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, 2025 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present 12- Jim, Ryan, Sarah, Lindsay R, Lindsay K, Terry, Chaps, Tess & Macey, …. Secretary’s Report: Presented by Sarah $40.000 in account, $20,242 not spoken for. Treasurer’s Report: Presented by Ryan $40,000 in account. $20,200-not spoken for, including $3000 for an ice machine at Sacred Heart for Basketball season. AD Report: Presented by Chaps Tennis is almost done with their season. Cross Country meet last night went well. Football- we lost at Charles City last Friday, but we have a better number of players this year and even a couple more have joined recently. Volleyball picked up a couple wins last week. Middle school football and volleyball will get going soon. Middle school cross country ran last night. Coaches Open Forum: none Old Business Athletes of the Month- Summer Landon Whitaker a Junior Baseball player and Landon Rechkemmer a Freshman Baseball player. August Athletes of the month Elzsie Fauser a Senior Volleyball player and Grace Gearhart a Junior Tennis player. Fall Fund Drive- When have the cards now and the businesses list. Ideally businesses would be approached by an athlete. An email will go out to coaches about this. Discussed the options available to those who already had bought their activity passes, when activity passes come with some levels of donations. 1. They can forgo their activity passes. 2. Donate them to others. 3. Students in need that would like to come to the game could get one from a principal. Could Logos be displayed somewhere when Business require this as a stipulation with donations. New Business: Protein Bars for lifting Open Forum Adjourned 7:11pm Next Regular meeting October 1st, 2025 6:30pm Oelwein Booster Club
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 6:30pm OHS Library Call to Order: 6:30pm Present: 15- Jim, Lindsay R, Sarah, Chaps, Terry, Lindsay K and Parker, Mike Vandehaul, Nate Wedeman, Collin Morgan, Ann Stegel, Katy Michels & Maci, Nick Lamphere, Landon R Secretary’s Report: Read by Sarah Treasurer's Report: Reported by Jim. Current balance $39,130.89 AD Report: Summer highlights-Boys track top 10 finish in 2A, first time since 1996, Girls golf team state championship, Baseball and softball also had notable achievements. Softball had a winning record of 16 and 12. Softball had a 1st Rd win. This is the first one since 2009. Base ended their season strong and won 3 games out of their last five. The football team is preparing for fall, with 51-52 players out. RABRIA- was a successful and busy week with food stands, showers, and campsites. Several various groups helped out. Coach Bob Lape was named Conference Coach of the year and Reached 700 career wins. Card Sales by the Football Team for the athletic department are going well. Thanks was given for the successful sales and involvement of the local businesses. Other teams may be used to sell remaining cards. Adrenaline made the cards for us. Cross country numbers are strong and they had fun during their camp. The girls new tennis coach is Jenna Cookley. Tennis started at the beginning of August which is new and different and actually will play games before the start of school. Ten girls are out- 5 from Oelwein and the rest from Wapsie and West Central. The tennis coach is Jenna Cookley, who is also the new Spanish teacher. Emily Woods is our new Volleyball coach and 24 girls are signed up this season. New Football coach Nick Lamphere is preparing for Fall and has 51-52 players out. Coaches Open Forum: Discussion to purchase Gatorade/Powerade powder for all sports. Approval for $300 initially was made for this to coordinate this before FB camp. Lindsay made a motion. Terry 2nd it. Also discussed was the need for coolers and snacks for athletes, especially for FB at halftime, suggesting protein bars and fruit for this. Old Business: Still trying to find the owner of the smart watch left in the summer concession stand. Athlete of the Month: Wanting to maybe reach out to Scheels to see if they would be willing to sponsor the Athlete of the Month or another business. We have some Pizza Ranch cards from last year, but need to find another Sponsor for this year. No Athletes for this month, we usually have one month in the summer where this is not done. Summer Concessions: Left over ice cream cyclones were passed out to tennis cross country, softball. Leftover Powerade and Popsicles were given to the Football players. Burger and hotdogs were grilled up and used for end of season parties. Some candy is still in the fridge. Fall Fund Drive: Coaches will be asked to help with this. There will be a list of businesses that the kids can check off that they've stopped at. Donation levels have been revised and a QR code is now available to accept donations. Depending on which level, a window cling has been made, there are still activity passes and a generic Husky clothing store credit will be available. Parking passes were removed due to lack of demand. Husky Movie Event raised over $1500 and the theatre was packed.Thoughts for steaming the movie at a later date for those who missed it. Booster Scholarships were awarded to Claire Prouty and Caleb Shunk in May. Discussion of having community awareness of the team’s improvements and successes. More media coverage is suggested for more community support and excitement. New Business: Tennis Ball Cart, The Booster club will cover the cost for this. Brian Sanders Signs: A sign was available to see that could be used to sell at $150 with the Booster Club keeping $50 of that. The Booster Club suggested gauging interest first and expressed concern with the high price point. Open Forum: The Lions Club donated $50 to us. Wanting to update and post on the website the new Donor’s list. Adjourned: 7:20pm Next Regular Meeting: Sept. 3rd, 2025 6:30pm |
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