Notre Dame’s Booster Club continues to contribute to Irish athletics in big ways.
The Booster Club helps with fields, equipment, concessions — just about everything and anything connected to Notre Dame’s athletic program.
Parent volunteers are necessary to provide NDPMA’s student athletes with a huge variety of opportunities. The Booster Club typically requires families to work at least three Booster Club-sanctioned events per season, per athlete.
“Many families go far above this minimum requirement, and the Booster Club is extremely grateful for their commitment to making the school and our athletic programs a success,” said Booster Club president Tom Fazio. “We work very closely with our athletic department to ensure this continuing success. And we definitely love our parent volunteers!”
Meanwhile, funds for Notre Dame athletics are earned through a number of ways, including concessions and spirit-wear sales, the golf outing, poker events, brick paver sales, and other fund raisers throughout the year. The Booster Club also helps with fields, equipment – just about everything and anything athletic. Even more important, the Booster Club is responsible for organizing volunteers to work all athletic events, saving the school thousands of dollars that would have to be paid to staff these events if parents didn’t help out.
“The Booster Club is vital to our programming, raising $50-$70,000 each year and saving the school at least three times that amount in working the various events,” said Betty Wroubel, Notre Dame’s athletic director and assistant principal.
Though the tuition contract for the school year specifies an opt-out fee for those families choosing not to work these volunteer hours, according to Fazio, it is the goal of the Booster Club to have 100% of school families work their volunteer hours.
“The school, community and students really count on volunteer support,” Fazio said. “It is impossible to provide such a variety of athletic events without the support of all these great parents!”
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About Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.