Until a Colleyville Heritage football player goes onto college and wins the prestigious trophy, Kelli Courreges may not smile so much when the Heisman trophy comes up in conversation.
“A lot of what we used to do, we’ve kind of gotten the Heisman stiff-arm because of COVID,” said Courreges, Colleyville Heritage Football Booster Club president. “We understand, though. We wanted to keep everyone safe.”
Like many booster clubs around the state, the Colleyville Heritage boosters had big goals for the 2020 season. They just weren’t quite sure how they’d raise the money necessary to meet those goals, especially without the club’s most popular event to rely on.
“In a normal year, we’d have our Panther Pride Night,” Courreges said. “It’s a full day, almost like a carnival, before the season starts.”
The annual event included games during the day before the community meets Heritage’s athletes from every sport and enjoys performances by the band, the drill team and the cheerleaders. Not having the event left a hole in the booster club’s budget, but not an insurmountable one.
“We are very fortunate,” Courreges said. “In a time where a lot of businesses really had to watch what they spend; we had a number of sponsors stay with us.”
One of those sponsors – Lewisville Autoplex – helped the club put together a raffle with the winner getting a new Mitsubishi G4. The club even had the car wrapped with Panther paws and took it to games, both home and away, to encourage people to buy tickets.
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