Saturday fundraiser to purchase new jerseys at Shadow Hills High School
Temperatures outside may be well into the triple digits.
But some Shadow Hills High School students are hoping to look cool in new jerseys they’re raising money for this week.
Parent boosters at Shadow Hills High School are hoping to raise $10,000 through a fund-raiser online and Saturday at the north Indio school’s gymnasium.
Head Basketball Coach, Aaron Wiltrout, said, “Just like anything else, they get tears in them, stains in them.”
If acheived, the fundraising goal will raise enough money to buy new jerseys for the Varsity, J-V and freshman teams, home and away jerseys for 45-kids.
Wiltrout said, “there’s home and away jerseys. Different jerseys for each kid, so that goes to about 300 dollars for each student.”
The young athletes with the Shadow Hills High School basketball program have been draining baskets and looking forward to another shot at the league championship this winter.
“I think we can,” said Team Captain Brock Greer. “After summer, we start putting in all our work everyday in the gym, same guys,” Greer added.
Some of the athletes have never had a new uniform.
But as with other schools around the Coachella Valley, money to pay for uniforms isn’t in district budgets.
So it’s up to parents and the kids themselves to do it themselves, and it’s not easy.
“No it’s been very hard,” said Michele Greer a fund-raiser organizer. “But the good news is the local community is really the folks that are really helping us out,” Michele Greer added.
Saturday’s silent auction event at the school gym starts at 7 p.m.
A Facebook page is already up at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/875942752441115/
The site displays a number of items that are up for bid including a Traditions golf outing for 4, other golf outings, gym memberships, dinners on the town and a 55-inch T-V.
You can also search it directly on Facebook by typing in– “Shadow Hills High School Basketball Silent Auction group.”
The effort has already involved two years of fund-raising.
