NASA Booster Club

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The NASA Booster Club is an organization created by and for parents of NASA Wildcat Aquatics swimmers. The purpose of the club is to provide financial support for the team, to enhance team spirit, and to manage and operate the team meets. In order to be successful it is very important that we have very strong parent participation. The club is organized around four specific functional areas.

1. Fund Raising
The objective of this area will be to enhance the compensation of our coaches and to support various team spirit activities.
We can meet out fund raising challenge through a variety of efforts, which includes
- A program / Heat Sheets for each of our meets
- Concession sales and admission fees at each of our meets
- Increasing the number of meets we host each year, possibly including Illinois State Championship level meets

2. Meets
An important function of the NASA Booster Club is to run meets efficiently and professionally. Well-run, well-organized meets also enhances our fund raising efforts. As part of meet administration, we need individuals to head up key meet functions such as the scorer’s table, timers, admissions, the bull pen, concessions, and officials.

3. Administration
The NASA Booster Club handles many non-coaching administrative functions, which frees up more time for our coaches to do what they do best - coach our swimmers. These functions include athlete registration, the web-site, external publicity, internal communications, meet entry forms and fees and the annual swim banquet. We need individuals to head up each of these areas as well.

4. Team Spirit
The final area of focus for the NASA Booster Club is to work with the coaches to coordinate the activities that will enhance the total "NASA experience."

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The 2008-2009 NASA Booster Club board members are as follows:

General Chair    Tanya Hussey

Vice Chair         Carolyn Yoch

Treasurer          Tracey Mendrek

Secretary          Suzette DeGrazia

                       Dan Lantry

                       Chad Johnson

                       Theresa Jovanovic

Past Chair         Jennifer McNerney

ISI Liaison:   Carolyn Yoch

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The Booster Club Board will be meeting on the following dates during the 2008/2009 swim year:

• November 1, 2008 (Annual meeting)
• January 31, 2009
• May 2, 2009
• July 11, 2009

All meetings will be held at 9:30am at the pool unless specified otherwise on the website.