Enhancements coming to Athletics Development Frontier

There will be some exciting new offerings coming from Athletics Development Frontier in the near future. With the site quickly approaching its one year anniversary, we will be introducing some new original content that will continue to enhance the field of athletics development.

For one, we will begin to offer an Athletics Development Frontier “Scouting Report,” which will be an e-report sent to our subscribers’ email addresses. The report will be a summary of some of the best practices we have uncovered teamed with some new original content offerings. Like any scouting report, we hope to provide you a glimpse of the strengths and weaknesses of the athletics development industry.

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Marist College leverages Super Bowl tickets to raise funds

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Marist College recently raffled off a travel package to Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, FL in an effort to raise money for their athletics program. Tickets were available through student-athletes, coaches, and staff with the winner being announced at a basketball game on January 2.

This exceptional travel package, which included hotel, rental car, spending money, and two tickets to the game, is a worthy prize that would attract sports fans to purchase the chance to win the prize. Marist has done an excellent job leveraging their ability to secure such a travel package into actual dollars for the athletics department. This is their ninth year holding such a drawing.

Taking Marist as an example, other development offices can look to leverage their relationships and ability to purchase worthy travel prizes to raise money for their departments. If a worthy prize can be secured, having raffle tickets sold to the surrounding community can be a way to create incremental revenue for the department, as well as increase awareness of fundraising efforts.

Taylor Wood