Team Representative Duties and Responsibilities:
Within the Roosevelt Athletic Booster organization, team representatives have a very important role. Their participation is critical to the group’s success!
As the main fundraising arm for RHS athletics, the Athletic Boosters require that each team or school group (band, cheer and club sports) that benefits from monies raised, must have a team representative to attend booster meetings on a monthly basis.
As a team rep, your job is to be the liaison between your team’s coaches, parent group, athletes and the Booster organization. The best way to accomplish this goal is to create a team email list to use as a quick and easy way to communicate with all parties. Obviously, if a team member does not have access to a computer we do it the old fashioned way…by phone!
Our biggest source of revenue is our Riders Hall of Fame Sports Auction. This auction takes place every year at the Don James Center at Husky Stadium. As a team rep, your job is to communicate with your team members about the auction:
educating them about the benefits of participating as a team
reminding them to procure donations—emailing procurement forms
recruiting volunteers for your team’s auction “job”
- encouraging them to come to the event!
AGAIN, all this can be done easily if you have your email list!
Then comes the rewarding part…dispersing the money to teams for new uniforms, equipment, spirit gear, etc. As a group our goal is to divide the money equally among all the teams that have participated in raising the funds.
From the auction itself, each team receives 50% of the value of what their own procured items sold for. The other 50% goes to the Booster organization to be distributed based upon need and auction participation. In other words, the first 50% that goes to your team can be used however your team chooses! The 50% that goes to the Boosters can be accessed by a team if they come to a meeting and present an official “request” that is voted upon by the entire group.