The Trenton Quarterback Club helps with the financial needs of the Trenton High School football program and supports the program. The club wants to purchase 60 new home and 60 new away jerseys this year as well as 48 helmets for high school football players, with the total estimated cost at $25,000.
Head Coach Kevin Hixson says new helmets were recently purchased for the Trenton Middle School program. About 40 helmets are one to two years of age, with the majority of those sent recently for “re-conditioning”. Helmets are reconditioned ever two years, and Hixson is looking to hand down upgraded varsity helmets to junior varsity players:
Last year the TQC purchased a new five-man sled and an end zone camera for recording games. The club recently held a “Sack It For Tips” fundraiser at Hy-Vee, and plans to host several other fundraisers to pay for the new jerseys and helmets.
Treasurer Robin Chambers says one of those will be a Kansas City Royals suite raffle donated by CFM Insurance for the June 6 game at Kauffman Stadium against the Cleveland Indians.
Anyone who wants to buy a ticket should contact a football player. The winner will be drawn at a football auction at THS on May 2nd, in an event to include a eat and pay meal of smoked pulled pork in the THS Commons from 5:30 to 6:30. Coach Travis Mullenix will be the auctioneer for the auction of players in the THS Gymnasium at 6:30:
Quarterback Club President Jenny Otto says the players can do various types of work:
The work must be done by June 15th. A donation box will be set up at the auction for anyone wishing to donate.
Otto says other fundraisers will include a 50/50 raffle at selected home football games and the selling of a parking lots at C.F. Russell Stadium as the 2020 season approaches:
The Quarterback Club is also one of three nominees for the charity to receive funds from the Wheels and Wine Car Show at Black Silo Winery in Trenton on June 27th.
The other nominees are Life Options Green Hills and the Green Hills Animal Shelter.
Voting runs will 7 o’clock on the evening of Friday, February 28th on the Wheels and Wine Car Show Facebook page. Last year’s charity recipient received more than $2,000.
The Trenton Quarterback Club is a 501(c) 3, and donations can be mailed to P.O. Box 11 in Trenton, Missouri 64683.
