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GOT GEAR?
Show your Viking pride! We have great new shirts
and accessories (including new shirt designs & seat cushions) On sale at home football games
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ABOUT THE VIKING BOOSTER CLUB
Who We Are
VBC, formed in 2007, consist of members who are Moms, Dad, family, friends, and fans working together to raise funds for all Lago Vista Student Athletes. We support all athletic programs at Lago Vista Middle and High Schools.
Services We Provide to Raise Funds
- All concessions for the football, volleyball, basketball, baseball and softball seasons
- Sponsor banners for the football and baseball fields
- Promote and sell viking spirit apparel, accessories, and other fan gear
- Fall athletic program that features all fall sports - sold at home football and volleyball games
What Our Fundraising Pays For
- Scholarships to eligible senior student athletes
- Fall & Spring Athletic Banquets
- Athletic equipment for programs in need
- Sponsor athletes
DONATIONS FROM VBC TO LV ATHLETICS, 2007-2008
- Middle School Football - shoulder pads and helmets
- HS Football - InZone Camera
- HS Golf - Golf Bags (boys and girls)
- Softball - Softball Pants
- HS Football - chartered bus to playoffs
- HS Track (boys and girls uniforms)
- Power Lifting (boys and girls equipment)
- Fall & Spring Athletic Banquets
- Power Lifting (food for LV hosted tournament)
- (2) $1,500 Athletic Scholarships (boy and girl)
DONATIONS FROM VBC TO LV ATHLETICS, 2008-2009
- HS Cheerleading - homecoming decorations
- Special Olympics - Student Registration/Participation Fees
- HS Football - Mini Blinds for Football Press Box
- MORE TO COME!!!
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UIL Booster Club Guidelines
The role of competition
Participation teaches that it is a privilege and an honor to represent one’s school. Students learn to win without boasting and to lose without bitterness. Self-motivation and intellectual curiosity are essential to the best academic participants. Artistic commitment and a desire to excel are traits found in music participants. Physical training and good health habits are essential to the best athletes. Interscholastic competition is a fine way to encourage youngsters to enrich their education and expand their horizons. Leadership and citizenship experiences through school activities help prepare students for a useful and wholesome life. Plus, competition is fun!
Role of the Superintendent
Member schools make UIL rules and determine policies regarding penalties to schools, school district personnel and student participants. The superintendent is solely responsible for the entire UIL program. All school activities, organizations, events and personnel are under the jurisdiction of the superintendent. Booster clubs must recognize this authority and work within a framework prescribed by the school administration.
Role of Booster Clubs
Neighborhood patrons form booster clubs to help enrich the school’s participation in extracurricular activities. The fund-raising role of booster clubs is particularly crucial in today’s economic climate.
Written Policies
Booster clubs should develop and annually review policies to cover:
*how to obtain administrative approval before beginning projects;
*how to plan and publicize meetings;
*bookkeeping and fund administration including process to obtain superintendent’s approval prior to raising funds;
*election of officers (suggestion: one president; one secretary; one treasurer; and three vice - presidents: one vice president to oversee fall, winter and spring sports);
*taking, distributing and filing minutes
*public communication;
*proper interaction with fine arts directors and academic and athletic coaches through the lines of authority as established by the school board;
*a sportsmanship code governing behavior of booster club members and fans at contests, treatment of officials, guests, judges, etc.; and
*plans to support the school regardless of success in competition, keeping the educational goals of competition at the forefront of all policies
Relationship with the school
The superintendent or a designee who does not coach or direct a UIL contest has approval authority over booster clubs and should be invited to all meetings. All meetings should be open to the public.
*Booster clubs do not have authority to direct the duties of a school district employee. The scheduling of contests, rules for participation, methods of earning letters and all other criteria dealing with inter-school programs are under the jurisdiction of the local school administration.
*Minutes should be taken at each meeting and kept on file at the school.
*School administration should apprise booster clubs of all school activities.
*Booster clubs should apprise school administrators of all club activities.
*Periodic financial statements itemizing all receipts and expenditures should be made to the general club membership and kept on file at the school.
Fundraising | Spending | Stipends | Gifts to Coaches
Money given to a school cannot be earmarked for any particular expense. Booster clubs may make recommendations, but cash or other valuable consideration must be given to the school to use at its discretion.
*Fund-raising projects are subject to state law. Nonprofit or tax-exempt status may be obtained from the Internal Revenue Service.
*Community-wide sales campaigns should be coordinated through the school administration to minimize simultaneous sales campaigns.
*Sales campaigns should be planned carefully to insure that the projects provide dollar value for items sold, and that most of the money raised stays at home. Otherwise donations are often more rewarding than letting the major part of the money go to outside promoters.
*Fund-raising activities should support the educational goals of the school and should not exploit students. Activities and projects should be investigated carefully before committing the school’s support.
Section 441: VALUABLE CONSIDERATION SCHOOL TEAMS AND ATHLETES MAY ACCEPT:
1. Pre-season. School athletic teams may be given no more than one pre-season meal, per sport, per school year such as a fish fry, ice cream supper, etc. provided it is approved by the school and given by a nonprofit organization, usually the booster club, before the team plays in its first contest. It may be given after a scrimmage.
2. Post-season. School athletic teams are limited to no more than one post-season meal or banquet per sport, per school year, and it must be given by a nonprofit organization and approved by the school. Banquet favors or gifts are considered valuable consideration and are a violation if they are given to a student athlete at any time.
3. Other. School athletic teams and athletes may be invited to and may attend functions where free admission is offered or where refreshments and/or meals are served, provided all students from that high school are invited to attend for the same fee and on the same basis as the athletes or the athletic team. Athletes or athletic teams may be recognized at these functions but may not accept anything that is not given to all other students.
VALUABLE CONSIDERATION THAT SCHOOL TEAMS AND ATHLETES MAY NOT ACCEPT
Examples of items deemed to be valuable consideration and thus a violation of this rule include but are not limited to:
1. Meals, snacks or snack foods during or after practices;
2. Parties provided by parents or other students strictly for an athletic team;
3. Anything that is not given or offered to the entire student body on the same basis that it is given to or offered to an athlete.
Local school district superintendents have the discretion to allow student athletes to accept, from their fellow students, small “goodie bags” that contain candy, cookies or other items that have no intrinsic value and are not considered valuable consideration.
Gatherings of school athletic teams at parents’ or patrons’ homes require each athlete to contribute equally to any food or refreshment. The burden of proof will be on the athlete, his or her head coach and the school if these occasions are questioned. No overnight lodging or sports instruction or practice is permitted.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
8/2 Two-A-Days Begin
HS Football & Volleyball
8/2 VBC Board Meeting;
HS Library, 6pm
8/6 HS Volleyball Scrim.
F / JV / V
Blanco, 10am
8/6 Football Parent/Fan Night
Sisemore Stadium
7-9pm
8/7 HS Volleyball Scrim.
F / JV / V
Robinson, 10am
8/9 HS Volleyball
F / JV / V
vs. Vandergrift
Here, 5pm
8/10 HS Volleyball
F / JV / V
vs. Johnson City
Here, 5pm
8/13-14 HS Volleyball
Varsity Tourney
Cameron, TBD
8/14 HS Football Scrim.
F / JV / V
Here, starting at 6pm
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