The Coupeville Booster Club — doing solid business since back in the days when Ron Bagby was still rockin’ the short shorts. (Photo courtesy Scott Losey)
You can change the world.
Yes, you, the one sitting there eating crackers in your pajamas while reading this.
With a new school sports year officially starting tonight, as the Coupeville High School girls’ soccer squad plays in a jamboree up Oak Harbor way (6 PM at Wildcat Stadium), now is the time for everyone to answer the call of their nation.
And by that, I mean Wolf Nation.
The power behind the throne — the Coupeville Booster Club — is putting out a call for new members, and it’s like they’ve sent you an engraved invitation.
Want to help guide the athletic future of the Wolves?
Be creative? Industrious? Packed with enough spirit that you elevate a couple of inches off the ground when you walk?
Or just want to write a check and sit back in your easy chair, content to eat crackers again, knowing you’ve done your bit?
Either way, this is most certainly for you.
The Booster Club, which is essentially a rollicking lil’ club of like-minded folks who band together to keep Coupeville athletics rolling, is absolutely essential.
From funding scholarships to buying varsity letters to providing snacks for teams stuck on long bus and ferry trips to clothing Wolf coaches in snazzy polo shirts, they are the people who make the magic happen.
In my own case, they were invaluable, both with a financial donation and extensive behind the scenes support, when I was working on my year-long project to install a Wall of Fame in the CHS gym.
Without their help and support, and their ability to calm me down whenever I started ranting about how we should get AC/DC to play the unveiling ceremony (while strobe lights and a fog machine waged war in the gym), the project would have veered off the road about 2,419 times.
But now, you’re asking yourself, why me?
Because every fan, whether you’re a Wolf parent or not, has valuable opinions and can bring a different perspective to the club.
New ideas, new energy, is what keeps the Booster Club hoppin’ as it keeps up with an ever-changing athletic world.
Join and you get access to the inner circle, a feeling of accomplishment and pride, a chance to make Coupeville athletics shine even brighter in the days to come, maybe even a pat on the head.
And candy.
Cause there’s usually candy at the club meetings. Just saying.
Whether you want to rise in the ranks to being one of those who guide the day-to-day business or you’re content to be the wind beneath their wings while staying in the background, now is the time.
How do you join? So, so easy. Thanks for asking.
There are four membership levels:
$25 makes you a Wolf backer.
$50 buys you an individual membership.
$75 nets you a family membership.
$125 gets you a business membership (with Wolf flag included).
PS — The secret fifth membership, known informally as the “Bill Gates level,” is if you step in and personally finance an entirely new football field or gym on your own.
Do that and the community gives you a parade and carries you through town on its shoulders, shouting your name as roses and chocolate rain down from the skies above for hours on end.
Could happen. You never know.
To join the Booster Club, there’s a couple of quick and easy options.
You could mail a check (written to “Coupeville Booster Club”) to P.O. Box 452, Coupeville, WA 98239, pop over to the Club’s Facebook page (see below) and use a credit card or swing by the club’s booth at Wolf games.
If you are Bill Gates, though, maybe use option three.
Don’t want to lose any million-dollar-plus checks in the mail now, do we?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coupeville-Booster-Club/83614917107
