There are numerous sites like, “eTeamSponsor” that are aimed to ease the fund raising process by creating a simple hub for all team donations. eTeamSponsor claims to be able to raise nearly $400 per student. However, we found a problem with sites like these: They often fail to gain the funds needed due to a lack of awareness for the programs. To raise awareness of our lack of funding, we made different awareness campaigns. We tweeted our findings to our U.S. representative, Lou Correa, and also tweeted about local sports teams who donate to local schools, like the Angels Baseball, and the Anaheim Ducks with the hopes that higher awareness of these programs will lead to higher support to our athletics division. Any other opportunities to raise awareness will also help.

According to Mr. Wilson, most of the money allocated for sports goes towards paying officials, providing medical care to players, providing transportation, and reconditioning equipment. This leaves little to no money for the actual sports themselves, forcing them to fundraise all required funds.

After an interview with Loara’s athletics director, Mr. Wilson, we learned that the high school sports leagues, like the Garden Grove League, along with CIF cost about $8,000 in fees a year.

To gather information, we conducted surveys of our fellow Loara sports athletes. We were able to gather nearly 90 responses:

Hello, we are a group of Loara High School students trying to better our athletics program by creating awareness for the lack of funds that it receives.