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. The total estimated cost of those items is $25,000. Head Coach Kevin Hixson says new helmets were recently purchased for the middle school. About 40 helmets are one or two years old, and the majority of those were sent to be reconditioned.
Helmets are reconditioned every two years, and Hixson is looking to hand down upgraded varsity helmets to junior varsity players.
Last year the Quarterback Club purchased a new five-man sled and an end zone camera for recording games.
The club held a “Sack It for Tips” fundraiser at the Trenton Hy-Vee earlier this month and plans to hold 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 6th home baseball game versus 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 the high school on May 2nd. That event will involve an eat and pay what you want a meal of smoked pulled pork in the commons from 5:30 to 6:30.
Chambers says Coach Travis Mullenix will be the auctioneer for an auction of players in the gym 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 who only wants to donate.
Otto says other fundraisers for the club will include 50/50 raffles at some home football games and the selling of a close parking spot at C. F. Russell Stadium closer to the football season.
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 of Trenton June 27th.
The other nominees are Life Options Green Hills and the Green Hills Animal Shelter. Voting will go until the night of February 28th at 7 o’clock on the Wheels and Wine Car Show Facebook page. Otto notes that last year’s charity recipient received more than $2,000.
The Quarterback Club is a 501(c)3, and donations can be mailed to Post Office Box 11 in Trenton, Missouri 64683.
