Dear Coaches and Team Raffle ticket leaders,
On behalf of the Dixon Schools Athletic Booster
Board Members, I would like to thank you for your
support in promoting the sale of the ‘Dream Vacation
Raffle’ tickets by your athletes! We hope this kind
of fundraiser has a little bit more appeal than
simply ‘pay to play’, the odds of winning a $3000
trip are pretty darn good!
We have about a week left to encourage the athletes
to sell the remainder of their tickets if they
haven’t done so already. However if the
parents/athletes would rather just purchase all of
the tickets themselves then that’s ok too. We
really hope that we don’t see any unsold tickets
returned – otherwise we’ll have even more pressure
to fundraise to keep sports alive in Dixon – and we
all know it’s challenging enough already! We felt
that turning a $3000 donation into $36,000-$40,000
in this way was a pretty good return on investment
for a relatively small effort by each of the
athletes.
I hope you will rally your team parents and athletes
(reminders at practice, email, etc…) to have a final
push on selling their tickets. For those of you
that saw the recent article in USA Today which
talked about how this community rallied to save
athletics….I’m worried we may only be able to save
athletics on paper if we can’t make this fundraising
raffle a success. Again thank you for all the hours
and hard work that you put in for ‘the kids’.
Many Thanks
Guy Garcia
President, Dixon Schools Athletic Boosters
& DSAB Executive Board