The Ultimate Frisbee parents and players have already raised over $7,000 of the $11,000 we need to go to Nationals. The Beacon PA is helping out with a generous donation, and parents and players are selling ads. We’ve taken what would have been a $530 trip per student and already made it only $171 per student, and we still have this weekend to sell ads and next week’s dinner fundraiser.

Now, that’s in addition to the 200 discs we have sold and the $1500 or so we’ve raised in bake sales which have paid for tourney fees, Amherst hotels and the States bus. Aaaaaaaand, we’ll get to use the money from the sale of the calendars next fall to fund next year’s team.

What is wonderful about this is that Ultimate is not an expensive sport to play… a disc, a pair of cleats and a set of cones, and you can play… but because of all the travel, it becomes an expensive game. And Beacon, while a middle-class city school, is still a city public school with kids from all over the economic map. It means a lot to me to see them achieve and be able to get to Oregon and compete with the best in the country. I was very afraid that we wouldn’t be able to make this economic hurdle. I’m glad to see that every kid is going, and that we have made huge strides toward making it very affordable.

Go Blue Demons!