Members of the Soddy-Daisy High School faculty and the community have banded together to create the Soddy-Daisy Trojan Fund to help school athletic teams and academic clubs when funding comes up short.
Tomesa Griffith Johnson is a special education teacher at the school, and said she has seen firsthand the difficulties in generating the funding required for large trips or events, such as when an athletics team makes the playoffs.
“If the baseball team was to win the region, they would have about three days to raise the money for a charter bus and hotels in Murfreesboro,” Johnson said. “By this time in the year, most of these organizations have already spent almost all their remaining funds.”
The Trojan Fund isn’t meant to supplant booster clubs, she noted, stressing that the fund isn’t just for athletic organizations. Johnson said the Trojan Fund is looking to help all SDHS clubs reach their goals.
“With a community so big, why can’t we get everyone involved and start up a community-based support program?” she mused back in April, while trying to get the idea off the ground.