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MILTON - A once-proud Milton institution helping Nute athletes is in desperate need of new members.
The Teneriffe Sports Club, formed as a nonprofit in 2011 to help Nute High School athletes and the costs associated with high school sports programs, is down to less than a handful of members, according to the club secretary, Karen Santoro-Nason.
"We need younger members," said Santoro-Nason, who graduated from Nute High in 1978.
The club over its short existence has helped many Nute athletes pay for equipment like basketball sneakers and warmup jackets. They also organize and put on the sports banquets that follow the completion of the sports season for Nute teams.
The club organizes several fund-raising events through the year to help raise money, including a whiffle ball tourney and a 5K race.
There's also an upcoming volleyball clinic this weekend for girls in grades 3-6 that will be put on by last year's undefeated and championship Nute volleyball team and coach. The clinic will run Saturday and Sunday, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Nute High School gymnasium. The cost is $20.
For more information contact Amy Taatjes at 652-7735. The proceeds of the clinic will benefit the volleyball team and TSC.
The club has liability insurance which is vital to conducting such events, but they need more volunteers to carry on a proud tradition of helping Nute athletes, Santoro-Nason said.
Right now they are trying to raise money for last year's championship volleyball team, whose members were forced to pay for their own championship jackets.
"They shouldn't have to pay for them," Santoro-Nason said as she tended to a TSC information booth at Milton Pride Day.
The club also wants to pay for banners in the Nute gym that would identify basketball players who eclipsed the 1,000-point mark during their high school tenure.
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