Fantastic! That is great news for our sport! Congrats to you and I compliment your perseverance in your efforts with the school board.

It is unfortunate you have had to raise the funding (the mat is really the only major expense), but in today's school budget scene, it is difficult for school boards to add an extra-curricular offering when they are having a hard enough time as it is balancing the funding of current curricular and extra-curricular programs.

Hopefully, once you can prove that the high school program will be a successful endeavor then the school district can take on the expenses real soon!

Congrats again to those in your community who helped make this happen!