Track & field fundraising
Track and field rosters are some of the largest in high school and club athletics. With 60 to 120 athletes across sprints, distance, throws, and jumps, coordinating fundraising is a logistics problem as much as a financial one. HometownLift gives every athlete a personal page and gives coaches a dashboard that scales with the roster.
The challenge
A varsity track and field roster can have 80-120 athletes. Traditional fundraisers like selling discount cards require distributing, collecting, and reconciling inventory across more students than most programs can manage.
Every invitational charges per-athlete entry fees, and when you send 40 athletes to a meet with multiple individual events and relays, a single Saturday can cost the program $500-$1,500.
Throwing implements, starting blocks, hurdles, and pole vault poles wear out and need replacing. These line items rarely appear in a school athletic department budget.
Qualifying athletes travel to regional and state championship meets that can be hours away. Charter buses, hotel rooms, and meals for a large traveling party create costs that the regular season budget does not cover.
The HometownLift approach
Upload your full roster as a CSV. Each athlete immediately gets a personal fundraising page with their name, event group, and goal. No manual entry, no repeated data collection.
Run a separate campaign for the throws group's equipment fund and another for the distance team's invitational travel. Each campaign has its own goal and roster subset, and all roll up to the program dashboard.
Run a run-a-thon, lap-a-thon, or mile challenge where donors pledge per lap or per mile. Athletes collect pledges through their personal page, and the platform tracks results and calculates totals.
Filter donations by event group, see which athletes are close to their goal, and export reports for your athletic director or booster club. No more chasing down coaches from each event group for updates.
FAQ
Yes. When you upload your roster, you can include event group or other tags. Coaches can filter the dashboard by those groups to see progress for sprinters, throwers, distance runners, and jumpers separately.
You create a pledge campaign, athletes share their page, and donors commit a dollar amount per unit (per lap, per mile, etc.). After the event, you enter results and the platform calculates each donor's total commitment.
Yes. You can share the team-level campaign page where donors browse all athletes, or share individual athlete links directly. Either way, each donation is attributed to a specific athlete.
No. Campaigns have no participant cap. Whether your roster has 30 athletes or 130, every participant gets a page and every donation is tracked.
Explore more
See how personal fundraising pages help every athlete tap into their own network.
Learn more →Purpose-built tools for pledge-per-lap and pledge-per-mile fundraising events.
Learn more →Learn how pledge-based campaigns work on HometownLift for any sport or event.
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