Good afternoon all,

After going over all of the details with James Lamar and his staff, I am ready to get the fundraising information out to all of our families to ease the transition with uniforms.  

As I mentioned before, here are the uniform items we will continue to use from the Monarch uniform package:  Helmet, Bat Bags, Light gray pants, Black pants w/ white piping, black socks with white stripes.  

**Important - Also, we will now use our white pants w/ navy piping for practice.  Also, it is imperative that the game pants everyone wears are consistent.  The gray pants need to be gluv pants, are light gray in color, and have no belt loops.  The black pants need to have white piping and also have no belt loops.  The white pants from our initial package should have navy piping and no belt loops, but it is ok if they are plain white or if they have belt loops, because they are now for practice.

As for the uniform items we will be adding to complete our Lady Dukes uniforms are as follows:  royal practice dri fit, light gray practice dri fit, 1 Lady Dukes helmet stickerplain royal socks, royal socks with white stripes, two Nike visors, 1 Royal Evo Shield game jersey, 1 Black Evo Shield game jersey, 1 White Complete Uniform - Jersey and Pants.

The fundraising we will be doing will be a combination of two fundraisers to make it easier on everyone depending on which is easier for your family.  In addition, we will be launching our Blast Fundraiser in the next 7-10 days for anyone who would like to participate in that fundraiser.  The Blast Fundraiser is not mandatory, but can be used to make up for  any fundraising shortfall for uniforms, any shortages on start up fees, or any of your personal softball expenses such as equipment, cleats, summer travel, etc.

The two fundraisers are selling entries to the Lady Dukes March Madness Fundraisers and selling raffle ticket for the West Coast Lady Dukes Spring Raffle.  The cost of an entry to March Madness Fundraiser is $20 and the cost of the raffle tickets to our Spring Raffle is also $20.

We need each family to sell a combination of 15 March Madness entries and/or Spring Raffle tickets.  This money needs to be turned in by 3/12.  This will get our initial uniform items ordered, which some have already been fronted and purchased by the our organization.  We would then need each family to sell 10 raffle tickets.  $100 to be turned in by 3/20 and the last $100 to be turned in by 3/27.

We know this fundraising could be a bit of a challenge.  Which is why I am participating in the fundraiser as well as Tera.  I am not going to ask you to do this without the both of us participating as well.  Just remember once we get past this fundraiser everything becomes much easier and we will begin to reap all of the benefits of being a part of this great Lady Dukes organization.  These two fundraisers will replace our Hit A Thon Fundraiser.  While we will still host our organizational Hit A Thon on May 20th we will not be running it as a fundraiser.  We will solely be running as competition for our players and giving them a chance to win various prizes. 

The raffle will take place on March 6 at our Texas Hold Em Tournament and Fundraiser.  This will be our last fundraiser and will allow us to raise what we need for expenses for the Summer.  You can continue to sell raffle tickets all the way up to March 5th and keep the money from all raffle tickets you sell past the minimum for the organization.  I know this is alot of info so I will make myself available this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to answer any questions.  

Keep in mind once we get past this initial fundraising we can then focus on growing this organization.  As we grow, we all benefit.  It will result in the reduction of dues, and initially having two partially sponsored team, with more partially sponsored teams and/or fully sponsored teams coming in the near future.  Remember, the main organization is going to be launching a huge marketing campaign behind us.

We can do this if we band together and put forth our best effort.  I want to show the main organization that we are for real and we are going to be an example of what other teams should be - both on and off the field.  Let’s pull together to make this all a success!  


Fundraiser #1

Lady Dukes Organization March Madness Fundraiser

This is one of the most watched sporting events of the year and bracket entries for March Madness are hugely popular.

For this fundraiser, our families, will need to sell entries to the March Madness NCAA Men’s College Basketball Tournament.  Each entry costs $20.  All entries need to be paid to you right away and all money you collect needs to be sent to your team rep by the morning of March 13th.  Once someone purchases an entry, you will provide them with a link to enter the tournament.  They will create a login by entering email and clicking to join our pool and entering their name, username and password.  After logging in, each participant completes the bracket by making their picks.

The selection show is March 12th, so no picks can be made before then.  All picks need to be made online by March 16th, 12:15pm EST (9:15am PST.)  Team Rep from each team will turn in one payment for the entries made by there team.  The link to the pool and contact name to send money will be provided soon.

So the important information for now is:

  1.  Flyers will be sent out shortly to everyone regarding this fundraiser which you can post on social media.

  2. Go ahead and start pre-selling brackets and have each participant pay you directly.

  3. Let them know they will be provided a link shortly to login and eventually make pick for the pool.

  4. Be ready to turn money in by 3/12 to your team rep.

  5. Selection show is on 3/12 so no picks can be made for March Madness prior to then.

  6. Each Participant must make picks, complete and enter their pool by 3/16, 12:15pm EST (9:15am PST.)


Fundraiser #2

West Coast Lady Dukes Spring Raffle

Tickets: $20 each 

Drawing on Saturday, May 6th 

Prizes: 

1st Prize: $1,000 in cash 

2nd Prize: Summer Fun Package (Ice Chest full of alcohol approximate value of $200 in alcohol, plus Corn Hole Boards, Bocci Ball Game, Golf Bag, Mountain Bike, and Guitar) 

3rd Prize: 2 Angels Tickets for Wed, June 7th vs. Chicago Cubs

As mentioned above, I will have flyers out to you tonight which will help with the selling of entries and tickets with these fundraisers.  I will send these via groupme as I can send multiple images at one time, unlike Blast. 

I will have more information out as well.  Including where I will be on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend if you would like to ask any questions in person.  Also, please text me with any questions.  I will also be in touch with all team reps over the next couple of days to get you all up to speed on everything. 

Thank you,

Coach Jeff