By Brandon Eastman Posted October 20, 2010
The Winnemucca Century Club was started about 30 years ago and has been going strong ever since then.
“Century club is an organization that is strictly for athletics at Lowry high school,” said current board member Chad Peters.
The Winnemucca Century Club is a nonprofit corporation that receives and expends funds to promote and support Lowry High School athletics.
“We provide additional funding for any athletic program for anything that’s above and beyond their budget needs,” said Peters.
Past contributions have been used to assist in the funding of improvements to the fields and facilities.
“The football field project, the track, the bleachers, the grass, the scoreboards in the gym, the scorer’s table in the gym, the Jim Billingsley softball field, we donate a lot of dirt for the baseball field, every year in football we help provide funding for the equipment costs; with the school budget they’re only allowed so many funds,” said Peters.
The Century Club helps to purchase equipment and uniforms for baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, dance team, football, golf, soccer, softball, track, volleyball, and wrestling.
Peters said, “If they (the sports teams) have specific needs that they would like to get for their program then they come to Century Club and we do some fundraisers and raise some money in order to provide that money for them.”
The fundraisers that the Century Club puts on in order to make this money are; the Century Club barbecue every year in August and the scramble golf tournament held in July each year.
According to Peters, the biggest money-maker is the membership fees.
“Our membership is based off the people in our community. It’s $125 per person and $200 per couple. Membership gets you into all home events for free and all that money goes back to the athletics at Lowry High School,” said Peters.
The ad sales for the sports programs sold at each home sporting event also bring in a lot of money for the booster club to give back to Lowry.
“The biggest thing I want business owners to know is; if you want to contribute to Lowry High school athletically, you need to go through the Winnemucca Century Club because 100% of that money goes back to the school,” said Peters.
If there are any questions about the Century Club please feel free to contact Ray Parks at the Junior High School.
