The Blue Dolphin Diving Team is a NON-PROFIT Organization:
By being a 501c non-profit corporation divers have the opportunity raise money, to help with their diving expenses, that they don’t get with most teams. Our Corporate name is The Dolphin Booster Club, Inc. and we are a 501C corporation. Our tax ID # is 22-3261316. Our New Jersey Charitible Registration number is CH-11432-00. If anyone would like further information on fund raising please don’t hesitate to contact me at gotcandy2@comcast.net.
Sponsors: . This means, that someone can donate money to the organization and write it off on their taxes. Contact Candace to find out more information about obtaining sponsors.
This year we will be doing a new program called the Scrip Program. Basically it is selling gift cards to hundreds of different stores, grocery stores, clothing stores, etc. Places that everyone shops all the time. A Diver will receive 100% of the percentage that receive on the gift cards that that sell. (Example: Macys you can sell $25 and $100 gift cards and you will receive 10% of the cost of the card into a drivers scrip account to use towards diving costs) There is shipping costs. I have been told that $2 per total gift card order/per person (meaning that if a person buys $100 Acme, $100 Stop n Shop, $25 Macys, and $25 WAWA, $100 Shell Gas, and $25 Dicks you would charge them $2 shipping) Anyone who leaves team for any reason, forfeits to the general budget, all monies in their scrip account.
Practice:
Each month the schedule will get posted on the website.
Practices will be offered Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays 4-6:30 pm and Fridays 4-6 pm.
Saturday Practices (whenever offered) are for Master Divers and Full Time Team Members Only.
Tower practices: Will be offered on Thursdays when available and are for Master Divers and Full Time Team Members Only. ($20 additional/per practice)
Practices are offered around the College Schedule and pool availability, and any clinics that may be offered through the year, as always. Remember without a successful College program there is no Team.
Divers have the choice of coming to practice which ever days weekly best fits your schedule. I want all my divers learn to discipline their time and manage their school work successfully! Bottom line is that I want my divers to WANT to be @ Practice, because they WANT to be good! You do not have to call or tell me why you are not there. If you miss for what ever reason, it is your choice. Obviously if any of you gets extremely ill or gets injured out of the pool, please make sure you inform me. Be aware that the results that are achieved at competitions are directly related to the consistency a diver attains at practice! I will still be recording attendance for the sole purpose of being able to substantiate the value of time spent at practice if the issue comes up. I really would rather have all my divers coming to practice as much as possible, because it does make it a whole lot easier to train someone when you see them more often. But I realize that not everyone has the same goals with their diving as I may have for them, but hopefully we will meet somewhere in the middle.
