J&R Booster Newsletter
October 2018 Vol. 2
Shining Stars and Hopes Competition
FEES! FEES! and MORE FEES! Why do we have a Booster Club?
Breakdown on the cost of competing and training:
- Registration Fees: this is a per gymnast cost for each meet. It is non-refundable and the Booster Club cannot reimburse legally reimburse this expense. Each meet charges something different and can be anywhere from $60 - $140 per meet.
- Coaches Fees: this is a cost that the entire team shares. It includes coaches session fees, airfare, hotel, mileage, food per diem, tolls, car rental. This is the part that Booster Club tries to raise enough money to reimburse parents. If we raise enough during the season, we can give 100% of this money back. For more details on coaches fees, you can find a coaches fees guideline on our website at www.jandrboosters.org. Coaches fees can vary for each meet (size of team lowers the cost). You can expect around $55 - $100 per meet for your share of coaches fees for optionals and around $15 - $40 per meet for fall compulsory.
- Team Fees: this is a fee per team (usually $50 - $60) that allows our girls' individual team to get a "team placement award". These are the banners that you see hanging in the gym. Ex. First Place Large Team Level 6. That banner would be for one of our level 6 teams that won 1st place at a meet. The Booster Club does not charge parents for this - we use fundraising money.
- Individual travel expenses: it is your responsibility to book travel for you, your gymnast and family. I recommend booking hotels early. You can go to each meets' website and book the "host hotel". It's usually very cheap and close to the competition. You can book Thursday to Monday and then change it when you know your daughters competition schedule (she could compete on Friday, Saturday or Sunday). Schedules usually come out about 30 days before the meet, so you have plenty of time to change. NOTE: I listed the websites for each meet on the newsletter. Compulsory: travel is minimal and typically are local meets. However, north state and state usually require out of market travel.
- Post Season Costs: you will still need to pay registration fees for each meet, however, the Booster Club tries to pay for ALL coaches fees for post season. If we do not raise enough money to pay for this, you will be billed at the end of the season.
- Monthly gym dues: this is the money you pay the gym each month for your daughter to train/practice. This has nothing to do with the Booster Club. We only collect/raise money to pay for competitions.
- Competition Leos, warmups, gym bags: these are designed and created by our coaches. The gym charges you for these items. The coaches try their best to keep the cost down and order a new competition leo about every 2 years. They also try and get new bags/warmups on the years we do not have to purchase a new leo. The Booster Club is not in charge of this.
Booster Club:
- Your annual dues are $55. Our fiscal year starts June 1
- Your dues include a team t-shirt. Note: it is hard to order t-shirts if we do not have everyone registered with Booster. The registration fees pay for this expense and also gives us your gymnasts shirt size. This shirt is nice to have if we need everyone to wear the same thing.
- We hold monthly meetings and encourage you to attend when you can. Meeting minutes are posted on our website and emailed out to the members.
- We handle all billing/payment for all team competitions. Meets will only accept one check per team.
- Our website has a lot of great information - www.jandrboosters.org
- We have a lot of fundraisers throughout the season and greatly appreciate any help you can give.
- Our board consists of 7 volunteer parents - we vote for new board members every May.
- Billing - we send invoices via Sports Engine each season. There are fees associated each invoice when using Sports Engine. Please remember that this invoice system is easier on the volunteer treasurer position (which typically requires a lot of time).
- If we did not have a booster club, our owners would have to pay someone to handle all of our invoicing, paying coaches, setting up travel for coaches, etc. Our monthly costs would increase tremendously to cover the extra labor.
TOPS Highlights
- Camaria Davis and Madison Teague competed in Indianapolis on October 8. Way to go girls and Coach Shelby! Keep up the hard work. We know if takes a lot of time and dedication.
Fall Compulsory Team
Fall Compulsory 2018 Season
NORTH STATE BOUND!
Congratulations to the following gymnasts for qualifying to North State. Please wish them luck. Level 4 competes in Denton on 10/27 and Level 3 competes in Allen on 11/3.
Level 4 North State
- Emma Esocobar
- Isabella Roskin
Level 3 North State
- Lily Claire Kaufman
- Katie Mae Highley
- Lily Cross
- Sahiya Petrova
- Elanna Polanco
- Avery Flack
- Sophia Leos
- Lindsay Dietert
- Ava Novak
DID YOU KNOW?
Karen
- Birthday: 10/25
- Favorite Starbucks drink: Vanilla ice coffee
- Shirt size: L
- Favorite gift cards: Dicks, Starbucks, Charming Charlies, Belk, Target
- Favorite candy: Sour Patch Kids
- Favorite color: mint green or hot pink
- Favorite cake/dessert: red velvet
Petie
- Birthday: 7/12
- Favorite Starbucks drink: Strawberry Acai or iced carmel macchiato
- Shirt size: M
- Favorite gift cards: Footlocker, Dicks, Guitar Center
- Favorite candy: Fruity/gummy candy, Snickers, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
- Favorite color: green
- Favorite cake/dessert: chocolate chip cookies and cheesecake
Jessie
- Birthday: 2/7
- Favorite Starbucks drink: iced carmel macchiato
- Shirt size: L
- Favorite gift cards: Amazon, Starbucks, Food
- Favorite candy: Red Vines, Reese's
- Favorite color: Red
- Favorite cake/dessert: cheesecake
Lauren
- Birthday: 4/18
- Favorite Starbucks drink: Blonde Cafe Americano iced or hot
- Shirt size: M
- Favorite gift cards: Nike, Academy, Dicks
- Favorite candy: dark chocolate
- Favorite color: Mint green/turquoise
- Favorite cake/dessert: funfetti
Shelby
- Birthday: 4/6
- Favorite Starbucks drink: vanilla iced sweet cream
- Shirt size: M
- Favorite gift cards: Chick Fil A, Massage Heights, Target, and Dicks
- Favorite candy: Butterfinger, Almond Joy, Snickers
- Favorite color: red
- Favorite cake/dessert: strawberry shortcake or rocky road ice cream
Jenna
- Birthday: 4/11
- Shirt size: S
- Favorite gift cards: Target and HEB
- Favorite candy: Kit Kat or anything chocolate
- Favorite color: purple or teal
- Favorite cake/dessert: chocolate
Taylor
- Birthday: 8/23
- Shirt size: M
- Favorite gift cards: Olive Garden, or other fast food
- Favorite candy: Skittles and M&M's
- Favorite color: pink
- Favorite cake/dessert: strawberry shortcake
Abigail
- Birthday: 5/13
- Shirt size: M
- Favorite gift cards: Target and Academy
- Favorite candy: chocolate
- Favorite color: blue
- Favorite cake/dessert: ice cream
CURRENT FUNDRAISER
Chocolate Fundraiser
WOW! WOW! WOW!
That pretty much sums it up! Our expectations were to raise $2000! We are close to raising $4000! We have a few more boxes to sell to hit this tremendous goal.
Thank you to EVERYONE for all your support.
Please do not forget to turn in your money or unsold candy bars.
Booster Board News
What's Happening Now
Next Booster Meeting
When: Wednesday 10/24 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: downstairs party room
Agenda:
- Booster t-shirt update
- Fundraisers update
- Myrtle Beach Fun Meet/final team schedule
- Team Christmas party
- Financials update
- Sports Engine app
Team Christmas Party:
- We have a tentative date of 12/15 or 12/16
- We are looking for a couple parents to help Coach Karen plan it. If interested, please contact a board member or Coach Karen.
Update on Sports Engine APP:
The app is ready to use. Please try it out and give us any feedback you may have. If your gymnast is assigned to the wrong team(s). Please let me know. You can also do a search for a team. Just type in J & R Boosters and the list of available team names will pop up. Just add them to your team list. Here is a list of the team break downs:
- Aberdeen Homeschool
- J&R Team Levels 1-10
- Optionals
- Fall Compulsory
- Spring Compulsory
- Shining Stars
- Hopes
- Bronze
- Silver
- Gold
- Platinum
- Emerald
- Diamond
- TOPS
How to sign up and use:
We are no longer going to use the "Team App". Instead, we will use the Sports Engine App.
- Once you are registered with the Booster Club and set up an account for Sports Engine, you can start using their app - same login as your Sports Engine account.
- You can start chats with your individual team or the entire team, view the team/Booster Club calendar, and manage your account.
- It allows you to also post pictures, videos and much more.
- The best part is you can mute a chat you no longer want to be on.
- It's user friendly and intuitive.
J&R Booster
Email: deanisfishin@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.jandrboosters.org
Location: 1437 South Walnut Avenue, New Braunfels, TX, United States
Phone: 830-606-0375
Facebook: facebook.com/jandrbooster/
Twitter: @boosterJrgym
Forms for Booster Club
Your Board Members and Team Parent Reps
Vice President - Shamira Allen - stephenandshamiraallen@gmail.com
Treasurer - Kim Rusk - kim.rusk@me.com
Secretary - Brandy Saenz - bkenyon12@hotmail.com
Sergeant-In-Arms - Addie Reed - addielynnreed@gmail.com
General Board Member - Teresa Meckel - meckel101@yahoo.com
General Board Member - Karen Rosales - krosales@satx.rr.com
Fundraising Chair - Karen Rosales - krosales@satx.rr.com
Social Media Chair - Maria Hayes - mbhayes27@aol.com
Optionals Coaches Corner
Competition Leos, Warm ups and Backpacks
For those of you who don't have a backpack and are competing in the spring, please click this link below and purchase it before the run out. Finish Line is the only place that still has these backpacks. They are discontinued. When they come in please let me know and I will have them personalized.
I will be sizing the girls for warm up jackets this coming week. For warm up pants I just want solid black knee capri pants. I recommend BCG pants from Academy or Under Armour as long as they are solid black with no white waist band. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Optionals Final Meet Schedule
Mock Meets
- 10/27 or 10/28 - more info to come
- 11/17 or 11/18 - more info to come
Fun Meet - Myrtle Beach - 12/7/18 - 12/9/18
- Invoices for registration have been sent. Please pay by the deadline. I am waiting for the schedule to come out (around 11/9) before I bill for coaches fees. If nothing changes and we only bring 1 coach, the fees are around $107 per gymnast.
Regular Season Meets
- Alamo Classic - 1/10/19 - 1/13/19 - http://alamoclassic.com/
- Metroplex Challenge (Ft. Worth) - 1/26/19 - 1/28/19 - http://metroplexchallenge.com/
- HNI (Houston) - 2/1/19 - 2/3/19 - http://www.hnimeet.org/
- SCEGA (San Diego) - 2/22/19 - 2/24/19 - https://www.scega.com/
- Yellow Rose - 3/1/19 - 3/3/19 - https://yricompetition.com/
Post Season
- Level 9/10 State Championships - 3/15/19 - 3/17/19 - location TBD
- Level 7 Regional Championships - 4/5/19 - 4/7/19 - Tulsa, OK
- Level 9/10 Regional Championships - 4/11/19 - 4/14/19 - Oklahoma City, OK
- Level 8 Regional Championships - 4/26/19 - 4/28/19 - Overland Park, KS
- Level 9 Westerns Championships - 5/10/19 - 5/12/19 - location TBD
- Level 10 National Championships - 5/17/19 - 5/19/19 - location TBD
Important Note: Please start booking all your hotels as the host hotels book up fast. We recommend that you book Thursday to Monday and then make changes once you get the competition schedule. You can find host hotel and meet information for each meet at the links provided.
Compulsory Coaches Corner
Fall Compulsory Post Season Schedule
- Level 4 North State - Achievers - Denton, TX - 10/27/18
- Level 3 North State - Metroplex - Allen, TX - 11/3/18
- Level 5 State - Pearland Elite - Pearland, TX - 11/10/18
- Level 4 State - Powerhouse TNT - San Antonio, TX - 11/17/18
Owners Corner
J&R Team Sponsors
Thank you to our Platinum Sponsors
Thank you to our Gold Sponsors
Skidmore & Company
1057 Memorial Circle
New Braunfels, TX 78130
830-626-7709
Thank you to our Silver Sponsors
K. Hudson Beauty www.khudsonbeauty.com
Central Texas Cryo www.centraltexascryo.com
Boujie Locs www.boujielocs.com
SOS Consulting LLC www.sosconsulting.us
BRC Oilfield Services LLC
Thank you for our Bronze Sponsors
Gordon The Plumber www.gordontheplumber.net
T.I.G. Plumbing 830-832-5089
Orthodontic Associates www.foundmysmile.com
Gary & Shirley Madsen
Kora Kora Coffee - www.korakoracoffee.com
Clarence & Marilyn
X-Press Manufacturing 830-629-2657
Chad & Mimi Stewart
Alibi Boutique www.alibiboutique.com
Jurica Builders 830-237-2888
Buffalo Wings and Rings www.buffalowingsandrings.com
Trinidad Rosales
Moreno Landscaping 830-865-8111
Shipley Donuts www.shipleydonuts.com
Ambs Chemical Search www.ambschem.com
S&S Crossfit www.s-scrossfit.com
Howell & Schmidt Insurance & Investments www.insurance-invest.com
Dr. O Smile Family & Cosmetic Dentistry www.drosmile.com
Plaza Pizza & Wings 210-659-7579
First Commercial Bank 830-401-6025
Ashley Hay Family & Grandmother