Good afternoon all,

  1. First of all, just to give everyone a little more time, we are extending the deadline to turn in the initial $300 in fundraising money and March Madness participant info lists to tomorrow, 3/14 at 6PM.

  2. Please forward the following link to all of your March Madness participants right away: https://www.runyourpool.com/auth/sign-up/?redirectTo=%2Fp%2Fj%2F223d4c4650db413a86b14b3aeec29261

  3. With the link, they can create a login in order to access and complete the brackets for the pool.

  4. As stated before, our families are free to sell $20 entries to the March Madness fundraiser or $20 raffle tickets to our Spring Raffle. If you choose to buyout, you can enter 10 entries into the March Madness Fundraiser, if you would like. Also, if you sell raffle tickets, you may enter up to 10 brackets in the March Madness Fundraiser or if your equal to the amount of raffle tickets you sell, 10 or less total.

  5. As it pertains to the raffle, just keep a list of the names of who you sell them to. We will not need a list of information for the raffle. We will give the raffle tickets to fill out for each person who purchases them.

  6. Unfortunately, there is no lower amount to pay to buyout of the fundraiser(s).

  7. Here is a breakdown of what the $500 raised pays for from these two fundraisers: $200 goes toward the Lady Dukes March Madness Fundraiser. Of that $200, $120 goes to one full uniform per player. The remaining $80 will go toward payouts for the fundraiser. Next $50 will go toward our player fee that will fund our group getting our very own admin who will assist us with marketing and administrative duties. $150 will go toward the rest of the uniforms we will be purchasing for each player. The last $100 replaces the money we would have raised in our scheduled Hit A Thon*, which goes toward equipment, repairs, and travel expenses for coaches with no kids on a team.

  8. * We will still run our Hit A Thon, however it will not be a fundraiser, just a hitting skills contest where our players can win prizes.

  9. The 3 deadlines we have to turn in fundraising money are (1) 3/14 $300, (2) 3/20 $100, (3) 3/27 $100.

  10. If you end up paying out of pocket for any portion of the fundraiser, please keep in mind that you can continue to sell raffle tickets to the Spring Raffle until Friday May 5th, leading up to our Poker Tournament on May 6th, where we will hold the drawing for the raffle as well. The poker tournament will be the last fundraiser of the year where we ask you to bring in two players to the tournament ($50 per person, totaling $100 per family.)

  11. Feel free to direct any questions to me via text at 714-348-9760.

I hope this answer most if not all questions. Don't forget to get the link to the bracket site out to the people you sold entries to. Make sure they use the email address that they give us, when setting up a login.

Thanks,

Coach Jeff