Campaign 2024-25
Friends and Supporters –
We are excited to begin our CAMPAIGN 2024-25 to bring Boys and Girls CIF Lacrosse to Chico and Pleasant Valley High Schools.
Last year we chose to first work with both schools' administrations and the Chico Unified School District directly, not yet involving or rallying our community in support. While sharing our mission with both boosters’ clubs, local businesses, and community members, we were welcomed with a huge degree of support. When trying to work with School Administrations and the School District we met with minimal support or willingness to work with us.
We have learned that adding any new sport must start at the district level. Therefore, the key to starting CIF Lacrosse programs at CHS and PVHS has to start at the district level. Because of the district’s lack of willingness to develop a path forward, we have chosen to activate our community to pressure the school district to begin a collaborative and constructive process forward to bringing CIF Lacrosse to CHS and PVHS.
If you have questions about our plan, please check out our website and deck that outlines our plans for Chico High School but will be applied at both high schools.
A few key points to keep in mind…
We have procured and will continue to procure all funding for each program. We will not ask for any money from the district, schools, or booster clubs.
We have secured coaching, a facilities plan (currently this plan is only an idea...we would love to work with each school to make this a reality), and entrance into the SJCIF and a league there.
We have secured the support of all major athletic financial donors in the district as well as many local business and community members.
HERE IS WHAT WE ARE ASKING FROM YOU…
PLEASE have your child/neighbor/friend/relatives/yourself/anyone you may know who supports lacrosse, to use the form letters linked below via Google Docs to email daily/ weekly/monthly/as often as you want to the list of emails below.
Click on the links below of the letter that pertains to you, cut and paste the text into your email, fill in the pertinent information, then copy and paste the entire list of district & school admin emails into the TO: section on the email before sending.
LETTER FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BUSINESS, ETC.
ESherida@chicousd.net
JAlvistur@chicousd.org
BKessler@chicousd.org
jimg@unitedbuildingcontractors.com
kjklick@yahoo.com
jgallaty@chicousd.org
dwhittaker@chicousd.org
pjackson@chicousd.org
president@pvsportsboosters.com
pcaldera@chicousd.org
caitlin.dalby@chicousd.org
rebecca.konkin@chicousd.org
tlando@chicousd.org
erobinson@chicousd.org
matt.tennis@chicousd.org
jshepherd@chicousd.org
kstaley@chicousd.org
WE ALSO NEED...
*We need to organize all students who are interested and supportive of having lacrosse at their school to organize a day that they will go into their school's respective administration and formally request a plan to move forward. They can do this together, individually, or in small groups. We will appoint a student leader at each school to organize these events and they will be in touch with students at their specific school.
*We have purchased 100 t-shirts and 400 bracelets that say “I want lacrosse at my high school” for kids and school staff to wear around campus. These will be distributed via current lacrosse players. Make sure your kids (whether they play lacrosse or not) get one… if we run out, we will pay for more. We also will be running a contest on social media to win gift cards and such that involve these shirts and bracelets, so make sure you and your kids are following FRIENDS OF CHICO LACROSSE on Instagram.
*If you have a local business that supports the cause please reach out and we will provide you with a sign to display in your place of business stating you support CIF Lacrosse in Chico High Schools as well as adding said business to our list of supporters.
FUNDING
We are a well funded and organized group. That said, our fundraising and donations have been for the purpose of creating Lacrosse programs at each high school without the district or schools incurring any cost. We did not anticipate having to run such an extensive Public Relations and Marketing Campaign to “show” or “pressure” the school district into working with us. Between T-shirts, bracelets, websites hosting, commercial email programs, posters, hand bills, employees, legal consultations…you name it, it all costs money. While we are funded and set for the long run, every dollar we spend on this type of thing is a dollar that does not go to creating more athletic opportunities for our kids in the form of Lacrosse Programs. This being said, if you feel so obligated to donate to the cause and the work we are doing to keep what funds we have for our kids here is a Go Fund Me page to do so.