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Sports Prep Wear Fundraisers – Boosting School Spirit

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Boosting school spirit with sports prep wear fundraisers is a great way to engage students, parents, and the broader school community while raising funds for school activities. Here’s how you can make it a success:

1. Theme and Timing OF SPORTS PREP WEAR FUNDRAISERS

  • Theme: Design prep wear around popular school events like homecoming, playoffs, or rivalry games. Use school colors, mascots, and slogans that resonate with students and alumni.
  • Timing: Launch the fundraiser at the beginning of the sports season, during big tournaments, or before major games to maximize participation.

2. Variety of Merchandise

  • Offer a range of apparel, such as:
    • T-shirts, hoodies, and sweatshirts
    • Hats, beanies, and scarves
    • Custom jerseys with student names or numbers
  • Ensure sizes and styles are inclusive for all ages and preferences, including kids, teens, and adults.

3. Customization Options

  • Allow customers to personalize items with their names, favorite player’s number, or custom messages.
  • Limited edition or custom designs for special events can create exclusivity, boosting sales.

4. Online and On-Site Sales

5. Promote the SPORTS PREP WEAR Fundraiser

  • Promote via:
    • Social media (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok)
    • School announcements, newsletters, and websites
    • Posters around campus
  • Use countdowns or incentives like early bird pricing to encourage quick purchases.

6. Engage Student Athletes

  • Have student-athletes or popular teams model the apparel
  • Involve them in the design process

7. Incorporate Competitions or Challenges

  • Introduce a friendly competition between grades or sports teams, with the winning group getting recognition or a special reward for the most spirit gear sold.

8. Tie it to a Cause

  • Emphasize that proceeds will support specific school initiatives, such as funding new sports equipment, uniforms, or trips to tournaments.
  • Consider donating a portion of the profits to a local charity or community cause to increase participation.

9. Build a Lasting Tradition

  • Make the fundraiser an annual or seasonal event that students look forward to, incorporating new designs each year to keep interest high.

By integrating creativity, school pride, and strategic marketing, your sports prep wear fundraiser can boost school spirit while raising valuable funds.

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Plymouth South High School launches online store

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Plymouth South High School Marketing students launch online fundraising store.

PLYMOUTH – The old school store has joined the 21st century.

Starting last month, the store at Plymouth South High School has moved to an online platform for marketing clothing and accessories with Panther school logos.

Marketing students Andrew Wagner and Austin Budrow led the store’s charge into the modern market, shifting the store’s limited clothing line to an online presence with hundreds of products and a choice of logos approved by administrators.

Plymouth South Marketing Students have taken merchandise in the school online with Rokkitwear

Link to Full Article https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/old-colony-memorial/2018/05/09/panther-pride-on-shelf/12275887007/

The clothing is offered through RokkitWear, an online platform that allows parents, students and staff to customize purchases on 350 different products 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

Customers can pay with credit or debit cards and buy single items or in bulk. Purchases will be delivered to their home within five days.

The shift in platform will mean added revenue for the school. Fifteen percent of the purchase price will go to the school’s technical studies revolving fund. That same 15 percent can be discounted from group purchases for school clubs.

Wagner and Budrow decided not to market gear for athletic teams, opting not to interfere with money that teams generate through annual fundraisers.

But groups can coordinate purchases and arrange to have individual names attached to gear if they like.

The online platform only went active two weeks ago, so sales are just starting to come in. The school store will eventually stock a limited line of samples, and the vast majority of goods will be online offerings only.

Shoppers can choose from familiar brands like North Face, New Era and Holloway, and virtually any club or department in the school – from the chess club to the plumbing department – can be featured with a Panther logo on gear.

Wagner and Budrow said the online merchandise will save the school store money on inventory that suffers from shrinkage or goes out of style.

The store had been losing money on some merchandise, marketing teacher Doris Grant acknowledged, and could never display all of the online offerings. “This is cutting edge. This is what technical studies is all about right? The future,” Grant said.

The online store offers a full line of T-shirts, warm-ups, outerwear, sweatshirt, polos and oxfords for men, women and children, as well as hats, scarves, stadium seat and blankets, all of which can be custom embroidered.

They range in price from a classic heavyweight T-shirt for $17.99 to the North Face Thermoball Trekker Jacket for $244.99.

“The days of brick and mortar are over,” Wagner said. “Nowadays everyone has a phone in their hands and can do this in less than five minutes.”

To view the offerings, visit https://www.rokkitwear.com/school/8359-plymouth-south-high-school.