Booster Clubs are Saving High School Sports

At some schools, sports teams owe their existence to outside financial support.

Citing a $6.5 million budget gap for the upcoming school year, Tolleson (Ariz.) Union High School District administrators were forced earlier this year to eliminate swimming, cross country, golf and tennis at the district's five high schools - sports strategically chosen to impact the fewest participants. But when swimmers and their parents at Westview High took it upon themselves to raise the estimated $25,000 needed to save the Knights' swim team, the school board stymied their efforts, stating it would be unfair to reinstate one team with outside funding if dollars couldn't be found for Westview's other eliminated programs or for swim teams at the other four schools.

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