2024 Rec Department Report

To the citizens of the Town of Athens:

We would like to thank you for your continued support of all the childrens’ programs here in our town! The money that you appropriate, the money we fundraise, and any of your donations are used to provide our children with some fun activities, sports, and other events throughout the year.

This was year 3 for our wrestling team. They are continuing to learn and are having a great time competing at the meets. We were able to purchase some singlets for them this year! They are doing a great job representing us!

This year we fielded 5 baseball teams (2-ages 8 and under, 10 and under, 12 and under, and a junior high team), 1 tee-ball, and 3 softball teams (ages 8 and under, 10 and under, and 12 and under).

We are in the process of replacing the snack shack on the softball field. Special shoutout to the ones who are volunteering their time and talents on this project. Our 3rd-4th graders and our 5th-6th graders played together on a combined soccer team and were able to play some games. We were able to host some junior high soccer games on our big field and we thank all of you that came out support this team!

We did not participate in Camp Podooc this year as they changed the way they were operating it and it wasn’t economically feasible for us. We will be on the lookout for something for this summer!

The town’s football field was well used again this past fall, and our snack shack had another successful year. Many thanks to those who volunteered their time and baked goods for the games. A special thank you to the ones who helped us put a much needed addition onto the snack shack this year, we couldn’t have done this project without you! We got many, many compliments on it! We had football teams for grades Kindergarten through 8th grade. Lots of hard work was put in by the youngsters this year. We were able to host some daytime and nighttime games.

For Rec basketball, we were able to have both boys and girls teams at the 3/4 grade level and also the 5/6 grade level. After those teams were done for the season, we had a group for anyone in grades K-2.

We put on a field day at the end of the school year for all students in grades K-8. The theme this year was family game night. It was a great time, and we look forward to this year’s field day!

Please continue to show your support by stopping by to watch all the hard work these children are putting in during the various seasons. We truly appreciate everyone’s support and the kids love it when family and friends are there to cheer them on!

We truly appreciate all the coaches of the various teams who volunteered their time and energy! We are always looking for volunteers to help operate the snack shack during games (football, soccer, softball, and baseball), so if you are interested in helping out please let us know! Teenagers who need community service hours are more than welcome to volunteer during our football/soccer season. There are plenty of jobs to do each weekend that our town hosts games and during the week when the soccer teams are playing. They are also more than welcome to help us man the volunteer toll bridge over Labor Day weekend.

To all of the businesses that continue to support us through their signs at the baseball and football fields, we thank you. We are continuing to update the signs as needed and are always looking for more new ones to put up. If you are interested please contact Vicky Avery. We were able to have a few fundraisers this year as well as running a volunteer toll bridge over Labor Day weekend.

A very special thank you to Jayme Stafford for inviting us to help out with the Christmas party again this year. We were able to schedule a visit from Santa, and help her with the passing out of presents and food. Looking forward to expanding this event in 2025!

Please direct any questions or concerns to our members. We thank you again for your continued support and are looking forward to another great year of being able to interact and work with the children of our town.

Athens Recreation Department

Cory Bussell, Vicky Avery, Karen Clark, Luke Sites, Jean Bussell