(Kids–please forward a link to this page to your parents!)
The Monta Vista Athletic Boosters have been very, very kind and helpful towards our track & field and cross country teams this year–and they deserve the support of our MVTF and MVXC communities!
Here are two special projects that the Boosters have helped us with in the last 12 months:
Track and Field: The Boosters provided major funding to outfit our new track. Not only did the Boosters make it possible for us to get everything we needed, we were able to purchase very high quality equipment. Most of our equipment will be provided by Gill, one of the leading manufacturers of track & field equipment in the USA. Gill’s equipment is the same gear used at the University of Oregon–which makes Coach Matt happy, because Monta Vista is going to feel like a Hayward Field-South! The gear is customized with lots of purple and gold–check out the artwork for the high jump pits. We have new pits, hurdles, starting blocks (these things are incredible–same model used at the Olympics), and all sorts of random things we suddenly need for our own track (measuring tapes, rakes, stop watches, cones, warning tape, official flags…the list is kind of incredible).
High Jump Pit Artwork
Cross Country: Monta Vista Athletic Boosters funded our new, custom canopies…our teams looked very professional during the 2012 XC season and the same canopies will be used for track. We had much happier kids this year!
Varsity Girls and our canopy after winning in Half Moon Bay
Without a doubt, the Boosters have been very kind to us this year! So I’d like to ask you to consider doing something for them:
1. Please continue to JOIN THE MONTA VISTA ATHLETIC BOOSTERS
Most of you do join…and I want to thank you, very much! Please consider joining again this year, and please consider a small additional donation. This is an expensive season for the track & field team as we get our new facility up and running, so every little bit helps.
2. PLEASE…SUPPORT THE GOLF TOURNAMENT
I am a horrible golfer, which is why I gave up the game. However…the golf tournament is a huge part of the Monta Vista Athletic Boosters’ annual fund raising and the parents of the track and cross-country athletes have never supported the tournament. When the Boosters gave us the grants, they gave me a justifiably hard time about the lack of support from the track and XC teams towards the golf. Dads and moms…can we please find at least 4 of us to come out this year? If you guys come, I’ll come out and hack around. Sure maybe we all prefer running–that’s why I’m a track athlete!–but this would be a great way to say thank you for all the Boosters did for us. So let’s get out there and give this a try! Even if you are not the best golfer, we will have fun together. There is more information about the golf tournament.
Thank you, everyone, for your ongoing support of the track and field team, the cross country team, your kids, and my fellow coaches and I. We could not do what we do without all of your support!
–Kirk Flatow