The Principal’s Advisory Council (PAC) plans to begin holding ‘Super Fan of the Week’ raffles in order to increase student attendance at sporting events. According to Student Body President Mary Caltrider, one of the goals is to encourage attendance at events besides football games, which typically have much higher attendance than other types of sporting events, such as tennis and volleyball games.

Caltrider said, “(When) people go to these sporting events, there will be a person there that will have a bag of raffle tickets, and this person will most likely be a class officer… They will give the person a raffle (ticket) to show that they were there, and they give them one half of the (ticket) with the number on it, and then the people keep the other half… In the activities office, we’re going to have a big box… and at the end of every week we’re going to draw a (ticket.)” The winner will receive a t-shirt which has a Superman logo and the words “super fan of the week.”

She said hopefully the winner will be announced during announcements on the Friday of each week.

Attendance at football games is on average much higher than attendance at other sporting events, according to Athletic Director Jim Inskeep.

“Typically there are about 1000-1300 students at home football games. Other events vary from zero to 200 between volleyball and soccer in the fall,” he said via email. “I think the day of the week plays a major role in student attendance. Monday and Tuesday night events have much lower attendance than Wednesday and Thursday nights during the week.”

The raffle has been in the works since the PAC meeting on Aug. 26, according to Caltrider.

“That’s when we kind of mentioned it, and ever since then we’ve just been meeting with Mr. Inskeep and just figuring out if it was possible, and so now we’re kind of starting to get things really happening,” she said. According to Caltrider, the PAC has all ready created a method for class officers to sign up for raffle volunteer duty. She said they will start advertising the raffle the week of Sept. 21, homecoming week, when video announcements began.

Caltrider said, “The week after homecoming week is ideal where we’ll have everything organized, and people hopefully go to sporting events.”

The PAC has not picked a specific sporting event or date yet, she said.

Caltrider said she thinks the raffle will be successful in reaching the goal of raising attendance at sporting events.

“I think that a lot of the times, people just don’t go to the sporting events because… not a lot of people go,” she said. You know, you go to football games because all your friends are going, so I think that this ‘super fan of the week’ will at least bring one person, and with that person comes their friend, and then they’ll bring their friend, and hopefully it’s just like a little domino effect, and it will result in a lot of participation.”