COURTING LOVE CAMPAIGN
January 2025
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Our national award-winning Tennis Center has been in operation since 1991 with the current membrane installed almost 20 years ago – and it needs your love! Now that the Court Sports for Life Foundation has taken over the operation of the Steamboat Tennis & Pickleball Complex from the City of Steamboat Springs, we need to:
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Replace the membrane and insulation (the steel frame is in great shape)
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Update the HVAC and lighting systems
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Resurface the courts, and
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Refresh the Welcome Center, including updating the lobby and mezzanine and renovating the restrooms ("about time," we hear you saying!)
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We estimate that it will cost about $2 million to do it all and our Tennis Center Building Committee (members listed below) is energetically investigating a variety of approaches and scheduling options.
Where will the funds come from? Here's where we stand as of early January 2025:
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$ 500,000 committed by the City of Steamboat Springs towards replacing the membrane
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$ 158,000 set aside from prior operating surpluses held in a separate account for maintenance
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$ 127,000 in Courting Love gifts and pledges prior to the match (included tennis-designated gifts from the Center Court Smash fundraiser)
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$ 251,500 in new donations and pledges that were eligible for the match offered in September 2024 by two anonymous donors
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$ 250,000 in matching funds from those two donors
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For a total of $1,286,500!
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But wait, that's not all the good news. We are so pleased to announce that another anonymous donor has stepped up to offer a "New Year, New Match" of $100,000!
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Please consider giving or pledging now so we can start this project as soon as plans are firmed up. If needed, we can phase this project to match our fundraising progress, but wouldn't it be nice to do it all at once?
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​You can contact any of us, or simply donate or pledge online by clicking on a button on this page. To donate securities, please contact David Lamb at Edward Jones in Steamboat at 970.879.7742 or david.lamb@edwardjones.com.
See you on the courts!​​
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​With deep gratitude,
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The Court Sports 4 Life Capital Campaign Committee
Becky Lamb, chair (rlamb44@msn.com)
Carol Breslau (carol@courtsports4life.org)
Britt Havard, Director of Development & Marketing (britt@steamboattennisandpickleball.com)
Debbie Modzelewski (debbie@courtsports4life.org)
Meg Tully, Executive Director (meg@steamboattennisandpickleball.com)
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Tennis Center Building Committee
Jim Webster, chair
Jeff Temple, co-chair
Laurie Buelow-Wolfe
Howard Holtzman
Bill Krueger
Krystal Mackey
Steve "Moz" Modzelewski
Jason Scicchitano, Director of Tennis
Meg Tully, Executive Director
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