LSC SOCCER TOURNEY CONCESSIONS
Team Awarded Contract To Handle Concessions As Baseball Fundraiser
The main stand featured a large tent with
tables, music and lots of great food.
The alumni Cougar
Baseball Boosters went on
the prowl for money to help fund the school baseball team and
to achieve infrastructure needs for the Cougar baseball fields.
Due to their past success, they secured the contract for the Lakeville
Soccer Club Pan-O-Prog tournament, an enormous event involving
four states and 225 teams, 75 of which were located on ten fields
at Lakeville South.
The Lakeville Soccer Club awarded the alumni baseball boosters with their third exclusive
concessions contract for the huge LSC soccer tournament, which
was held the weekend
of June 17-19.
The Cougar Baseball Boosters ran this
twice in the past and have always done very well in organizing and executing this
huge
concessions event. Normally they have had six months to a year
to plan for this, but never have they done it within the
insane three week timeframe that this year's event was
literally accomplished under. It was, without a doubt,
an undeniably and outrageous daunting effort to go after this
contract with so little time to pull the event off. Not only
did the group pull it off, they did it with even more flare,
with more amenities, and
a larger menu than in years past. It was an incredible job
well done by a very focused team.
The main food dining tent was a great addition
to this year's event.
Cougar baseball volunteers worked three daily four-hour+ shifts which ran during the day, from 7am to roughly 8pm. Many families worked double shifts, or volunteered to work each day. A couple families went so far as to work the entire event, from start to finish.
The alumni baseball boosters wish to thank all baseball families who volunteered to work in order to help meet our goal for a much needed water tap and a long overdue outfield warning track. Many of these families were involved in weekend baseball tournaments, but each of them found time to work around their games in order to help the South baseball program. Joyce Harnisch even worked on her birthday, so thank you very much for the kind hearted effort Joyce.
The BBZ BBQ smoker was the icing on the cake
for the booster concessions.
Special thanks to Rick and Kathy Sather for their tireless efforts in helping to organize volunteers and contributions for the event. The Sather team was a huge rock to lean upon and worked the entire event. You guys were absolutely fabulous to work with! Thank you for the huge effort Rick and Kathy. We couldn't have done it without you and we certainly look forward to doing it all again next year. What a great team!
Thanks to alumni booster Jeff West for the much needed use of the Toro concession vehicles, and also to alumni booster Joel Blaschko for offering to help work the event. It should be noted that none of the alumni baseball boosters involved in this event have any kids left in the school, but all still have the absolute best intentions for the South Cougar baseball program. Thank you to Toro, Jeff West and Joel Blaschko. The alumni boosters have always been second to none when it comes to funding and supporting South Cougar baseball.
The Toro concession cooler vehicles are always a big
hit with the crowd.
Thanks also to Wendy Schultz for her additional help in securing volunteers from the younger age levels and for helping shop for the event, not to mention working the concession stand. She was an integral cog and is very much appreciated. Thanks to Wendy for the outstanding effort!
Jeannie Watts was another tireless volunteer without a player still in the program, yet she shopped, delivered supplies, worked the stand, and put in countless hours to help make the event run smoothly. Jeannie was literally working somewhere at all times to help out the entire weekend. Thanks very much Jeannie.
The main fry tent was French fry headquarters
for this tasty food favorite.
Two others not affiliated with the program were Tim Sather and sister Sandy Doruff who both volunteered their weekend to help out the South baseball program. Thanks to both of them for giving their time to support Cougar baseball. Two more great people not in the program who cared enough to help, stepping up to fill the volunteer void. Thank you Tim and Sandy for the incredible effort and the weekend sacrifice.
We would be remiss if we did not give a very special thanks to Jeff and Lynn Stelzer and BBZ BBQ for the use of the awesome competition-style professional smoker. What a great addition to the event. Everything that came off this smoker had the most delicious flavor. The hamburgers and hotdogs were absolutely incredible. It probably wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that even breakfast cereal would be great from this. BBZ BBQ does private parties and graduations as well, so give Jeff a call if you want the very best smoked meats for your next event. You can't go wrong with BBZ BBQ. Thank you very much Jeff! You helped put us over the top on a great event.
Workers inside the concession stand serve the
hungry crowd.
Last, but certainly
not least, the Cougars thank
Bruce Reinhart and the Lakeville Soccer Club for graciously
giving up their own concession profits and allowing the alumni
boosters
to serve their prestigious event. We certainly appreciate an
organization with the class to unselfishly help another
organization fundraise for LSHS Cougar baseball. We look forward
to serving the next tournament in 2012. Thank you Bruce for running
such a great organization that has bent over backwards to help
us fund LSHS South Cougar baseball.
The concessions contract was secured and orchestrated solely by the alumni baseball boosters, with absolutely no involvement or participation from the summer LSBA group. Splitting the proceeds from an alumni boosters event with LSBA would have seriously hampered the main goal at hand, which was to secure needed infrastructure funding for LSHS Cougar baseball field improvements. All money raised will instead now go to Cougar field needs, to give our South players the best possible fields to play on. (see plans here) The alumni boosters sincerely hope to elicit future support from LSBA and to partner together with the summer group for upcoming Cougar baseball projects which have long been targeted by the alumni baseball boosters. It's all about a winning program for the kids and LSHS.
Patrons to the concession stand often remarked
about the great food menu.
Thank you again to all of those who took the time and made the concerted effort to help raise money for LSHS Cougar baseball. A job well done folks!
Our Selfless Volunteers:
Rick and Kathy Sather
Wendy, Joe and Austin Schultz
Jeannie, Eric and Shannon Watts
Tom, Martha and Mitch Mauer
Andrea, Jeffrey and Shari Brandt
Carla and Grant Henke
Jeff and Lynn Stelzer
Scott, Carrie and Patrick Lauderdale
Dean and Carla Schiffler
Rich and
Jennifer Byers
Erin Marker
Joyce Harnisch
Sandy Doruff
Tim Sather
Pete, Kelly and JP Haack
Don and Matt Nelson
Jacque Ballantyne
Tracy Cervenka
Shelly and Travis Soleta
Gail Schumacher
Joe Stangl
Blake Schmidtke
Luke Benge
[Missing from the pictures above is the main drink stand at the top of the path, as well as the secondary on-field concession stand. All in all, a great set up.]
The 2011 Menu
This year's menu featured more food items. (click on image for
larger picture)
COUGARS
THANK VALUABLE TOURNEY SPONSORS
Cougar baseball would like to thank the following extremely generous sponsors for making our concessions event for the Pan-O-Prog soccer tourney a huge fundraising success. We could not possibly have raised the money that we did without these valuable corporate sponsors. In a cash poor District 194, none of what we do is possible without the benevolent support from caring businesses such as these. We literally could not have put this event together without their help. It's just not possible, at least as a fundraiser. The alumni Cougar baseball boosters are totally indebted to these outstanding people and their businesses for their generous contributions. We hope that our South families will show their thanks as well by supporting these wonderful sponsors of Cougar baseball.
We wish to publicly thank the following people and businesses:
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McDonald's (McStop) Michelle Lukkason 21044 Kenrick Ave<<Selection in Document>> Lakeville |
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Baldy's BBQ Brian Wheeler 11276 210th St W Lakeville |
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Subway Jeff Hoff Co Rd 70 & I-35 17446 Kenwood Trail Heritage Shopping Center |
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Applebees Tom Wroblewski 18404 Kenrick Ave Lakeville (952) 892-1991 |
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Starbucks Coffee Ken Kooyer 17740 Kenwood Trail Lakeville (952) 898-1373 |
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Green Mill Restaurant Bill Keller 17733 Kenwood Trail Lakeville (952) 435-8100 |
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Culver's Mike Budde & Kim Gauer 17800 Kenwood Trail Lakeville (952) 435-5575 |
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Outback Steakhouse Jamie Klug 2034 W Co Rd 42 Burnsville (952) 892-0700 |
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Rainbow Foods Andy Schinka, Steve Erickson, Steve Berger 17756 Kenwood Trail Lakeville (952) 898-4500 |
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Reinhart Food Service Paul Bailey, Dan Schwake, Chris Watts 13400 Commerce Blvd Rogers (763) 428-6396 |
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Bix Produce Co. Adam VanGrinsven 1415 L'orient Street St. Paul |
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Sweet Baby Ray's Tom Murphy 800 E. Higgins Rd Chicago (877) 729-2229 |
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Perkins Kurt Engen 17387 Kenyon Avenue Lakeville |
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Perkins Todd Hudson - Burnsville 12750 W Frontage Road Burnsville |
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Walgreens Travis Yates 17630 Kenwood Trail Lakeville |
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Sam's Club Lynn Neher, Dave Harbot 14940 Florence Trl Apple Valley |
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Sam's Club Julie White 8201 Old Carriage Court Shakopee |
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Big Apple
Bagels Lou Miller 7501 145th St W Apple Valley |
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CVS Pharmacy Will Robinson 17665 Kenwood Trail Lakeville |
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Richardson Brands Jeff Lenz www.richardsonbrands.com 800-839-8938 |
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Costco Tom Dillahunt 14050 Burnhaven Drive Burnsville |
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Toro Jeff West 21350 Cedar Ave Lakeville (952) 887-8436 |
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South Metro Rental Dale Green 9300 202nd Street West Lakeville |
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Marathon - River Country Coop Ray Bohl 9290 202nd Street West Lakeville |
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7 Inning Sports Adam VanGrinsven www.7inningsports.com |
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Arnell Business Forms Mike Hodson 255 Roselawn Ave E # 39 St. Paul |
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Robert A
Bjorkman, DDS Robert A. Bjorkman 625 E Nicollet Blvd # 202 Burnsville |
OUR HIGHLY VALUED SPONSORS
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Thank you guys for all of your
wonderful support!