The purpose of the CLUB shall be to aid in the general promotion and development of the various school sanctioned athletic activities engaged in by the students of North Royalton High School and Middle School.
Our goal is to provide uniforms and equipment to Bears teams in the MS and HS.
We ask that you become involved and support all of our student athletes.
January’s meeting was cancelled due to weather. February’s meeting started at 7:03 pm.
Is there any way we can improve our fundraising? NRAB welcomes any ideas to help improve fundraising from parents or coaches. Please email
Athletic Director’s Report/Brad Klingbeil.www.ohsaa.org, www.nrab.net - Winter sports is winding down. NRHS is hosting the sectional wrestling tournaments total of 12 schools. 2/19 and 2/20 is the . The NOC wrestling championships are 2/5 and 2/6. Boys NRMS is 2/13 NCOMSL @ PARMA HS. The swim tournament was in the middle of the season. Gymnastics NOC Championships meet 2/6 in Medina. The floor is complete in the weight room. Rubberized dumbbells were ordered. There are 4 power racks, 4 platforms, lat machine, row machine combination and 4 benches to go with the power racks. The weight room has been rearranged. The white wall will have a mural designed for it by the sophomores. NRAB can design a logo also. This is a good opportunity for NRAB to display information about ourselves.
Parma school status is up in the air and is changing day to day. Brad will keep us up to date as he is informed. IF Parma schools are closed and merged, spring sports schedules may change and even fall schedules. There is a good article in Sports Illustrated discussing the situation that happened in the Columbus area when sports were eliminated in some of the schools down there.
Car Raffle – drawing is 2/26/10 – tickets are being turned. The next collection nights are 2/17/10 and 2/25/10. Proceeds are for the NRAB general fund for use for all athletes in the MIDDLE SCHOOL and HIGH SCHOOL.
Treasurer’s report – Mark Shaw - reviewed treasurer’s report. He will add the money for the weight room commitment ($13,000).
Finance Committee – The NRMS grossed $2300 at the Wrestling tournament.
Night at the Races – no news
Nautica Charity – 3/25,3/26,3/27,3/28 –John Vasil – All of the funds raised are for all of our teams at NRMS AND NRHS by NRAB. NRAB poker – World Series of Poker is usually the week before, this may be moved to our week because they know we have enough volunteers to staff the World Series of Poker. This will probably be the last Nautica we will be able to do, because of the casino being opened. We need as many volunteers as possible – PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ATHLETES ! Stan will provide the list to John Vasil of members that said they would volunteer. Every Booster club member will be called to ask them to volunteer for the event. Each person will call 20 people – a script will be provided by Brian Lebo and Bill Thomas to make the phone calls, so that a common message is communicated. Brian and Bill will have a script by 2/8/10. We can wear our school colors at the event – we do not have to wear the Nautica poker shirts. Brian Lebo will contact Jeff Hill at NRMS regarding getting additional volunteers for this event.
Scoreboard – no news
Membership – 336 members $21,905 – one Hall of Fame membership. 20% of the memberships are from the Middle School
Web page – Bill Thomas - web site –
Gold Card – no news
Programs – no report
Advertising and newsletter –send all Advertising and items for the newsletter to
Purple and gold – no report – Debbie has a bill and a check for treasurer Mark Shaw. Letter jackets are ordered through Purple and Gold.
Concessions – no report
Hockey – Tim O’Connor showed trophy from tournament in Findlay, Ohio.
Wine Tasting – Michelle Adams – Saturday March 13th Tony Maloney’s (9387 Sprague Rd). The wine tasting is from 7:30 to 8:30 pm The theme is to support Ohio Business. A local Ohio Winery from Avon will be featured. A local band will be playing at Tony Maloney’s . The cost is $25 per ticket which will include well drinks, beer and wine. (contacts Michelle Adams 440-552-9388, Sandi Burger 440-410-610-3412, Donna Sadowski (NRMS) 440=237-4125, Sharon Matovich(NRHS) 440-582-2888.
Additional Topics that were discussed:
We should continue to be working together to raise money for all of the teams. NRAB has never refused any team any money.
Sports want to travel to other events (camps, tournaments) and they would like to use the money for this. Also, we have multi-sport athletes in varsity sports.
Jamie Leonard Coach Girls Basketball – Girls are doing well , Middle School 7th and 8th grade teams are undefeated and are doing extremely well this year. Just had 3rd,4th, 5th grade youth league who will be playing at ½ time in the game against Solon. The last varsity game is against Elyria in 2 weeks.
GFS – have applications – sign up and use the card and the money goes to NRAB anywhere in the country, family members can use it also. Does not cost anyone anything and GFS does all of the work.
