February Meeting

Hello Softball Families!!!
Youth clinics and evaluations are right around the corner and the high school season is about a month and a half away!!!  Excitement is building and we hope you can join us at our monthly club meeting on February 10, 2020, 7 PM at Culvers.  See you there!!

R&R Doors to the rescue!

A big thank you to R&R Doors for installing the overhead door on our new storage shed!  Their generous donation came just in time to beat the snowy weather!  Once again we are so fortunate to have so many amazing corporate sponsors!  Go Mount Horeb Softball Nation!!

2019 Softball Club Accomplishments

Happy New Year!  The Mount Horeb Softball Club has had many successes and firsts this past year that we wanted to share.  Following is a list of just a few things we have accomplished in no particular order:

  1. Seven youth teams played this summer – up one team from 2018!
  2. Two youth fall ball teams
  3. Two Tournament Teams:  U10 and U12
  4. New varsity head coach Jeramie Holman!
  5. Began a pitching incentive program – K-Club
  6. Varsity and JV High School Team (there was not enough players for a JV team the previous year)
  7. High school teams had three event nights:  Youth, parents/grandparents, and senior night
  8. First year of our youth volunteer program (VIP) – 76% of the families met the volunteer requirements – what a great participation by our families!!
  9. Successful calendar raffle fundraiser by our high school and youth players
  10. Volunteered at football concession stand as well as cotton candy and snow cone sales at the Homecoming game
  11. Cotton candy and snow cone stand at Norsk Anniversary summer event
  12. Had an expanded offering at concession stand – walking tacos and nachos
  13. Upgraded concession stand:  replaced microwave, bought new table, and added new accessories/utensils.
  14. New sidewalk – MHASD paid for this – we are now ADA accessible to both fields!
  15. New backstop fencing and bracing at Field #1 (American Fence)
  16. New concrete and field gates at Field #2 (Finks Paving and American Fence)
  17. New Storage Shed (Finks Paving, Hellenbrand Custom Construction, Brings Building & Jet Crete, R&R Doors, and Dave Jones, Inc.)
  18. Softball Club was on TV – TV-W aired a short clip about our club
  19. Had an awesome float in the Frolic parade and large group of youth handed out merchandise
  20. Continued our Chamber of Commerce membership
  21. Received a generous grant from Mt Horeb Rotary
  22. 2019 Revenue:  $38,162  /   2019 Expenditures:  $37,630

A huge thank you to all of sponsors, volunteers, committee members, and board members who make everything possible.  In addition to celebrating these tangible achievements, we will never forget to celebrate the individual accomplishments and firsts of our youth – that first hit, the first home run, the first inning pitched, and for some the first practice and the first game.

Thank you to all who have made this past year a success, and may we never lose sight of these personal accomplishments.  We are proud of all our youth players!!  Here’s to an amazing 2020.  Go Mount Horeb Softball Nation!!

Softball Club Officer Announcement

Thank you to those who braved the cold to attend our annual meeting last week.  As part of this meeting we elected three members to officer roles.  This year Eric Swiggum has been re-elected to the Vice President role.  Doug Fischer is our new treasurer and Jeff Mester has stepped into the Advisor #2 position.  We thank Eric for his continued involvement at all levels and welcome our two new officers.  We look forward to working with them to continue to build the softball program.  We would also like to thank Holly Kellesvig for her outstanding work as the outgoing club treasurer.  She is stepping off the board after completing her two-term limit in this role.  Holly is a founding member of our club as well as a generous corporate sponsor.  Also, a big thank you to Barry Larson, who is stepping back from the board to allow him to focus more time on his critical Youth Coordinator role within the Club.  If you have or had a daughter in the youth program in the last several years you know the amount of time Barry puts in to making everything run smoothly.  Thanks to all of you for your past and future contributions!!!

MHSC SHED CONSTRUCTION

From empty concrete slab to framed shed in 6 hours!!  A huge thank you to DEREK DAHLK, Finks Paving, Concrete and Excavating for once again stepping up to provide his skills and resources to pour the concrete slab and to BRAD HELLENBRAND, Hellenbrand Custom Construction for providing the expertise, labor and tools to frame our new shed.  Also thank you to all of our volunteers who gave their time to make this happen!  Next up: steel siding and roofing to be installed – stay tuned!!

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October Meeting

Please, join us on Monday, October 21st, 7 PM at Culver’s for our October softball meeting.  Once again there are a lot of great things going on with MH Softball Nation!!  Tournament teams have been formed, a practice incentive program is being explored for the youth, storage shed construction is scheduled, new sidewalks have been installed, fundraising continues for the new JV dugouts, and another successful football concession stand….and the list goes on!
Please, join us to learn more about what is happening with softball in Mount Horeb.  All are welcome – hope to see you there!!
Click here for the agenda:  SB Meeting Agenda – 10-21-19

Concession Stand Recap

Thank you to everyone who worked hard at the football concessions for the Viking Homecoming game! Special thanks to those who worked double shifts – that did not go unnoticed!! Finally a huge thank you to Jon and Wendy Steinhauer for providing their equipment and expertise to make cotton candy and snow cones. This stand alone made $1,000 for the softball club. In addition to our payment from the school to run the main concession stand, those working the windows brought in over $50 in tips – way to work it!!! The Softball Club hit another homerun on Friday night!!