Contrary to popular belief, a high school boosters’ club does much more than just support the Friday night lights.

Park City High School has taken big strides in the last three years as a boosters’ club, and sees itself focusing on more than just the archetypal, popular sports.

Scott Chester, one of the Park City High School Booster Club’s directors, has preached the need for fair and even distribution of support since becoming associated with the club and proves it.

“Boosters is not just for sports,” Chester said. “It’s for everyone. It’s for the fans.”

Chester mentioned that the boosters’ club supports anything officially sanctioned as a PCHS club or extracurricular activity.

For example, if the Academic Decathlon team qualifies for a meet somewhere, the booster club will do its best to get that team as much money as possible.

Traditionally, there are two avenues through which the booster club raises large portions of revenue.

Primarily, the club raises money by membership; buying membership packages that include admission to free sporting events for a season, for example.

The group also sells bricks on the “Pathway to Excellence” in front of the high school, where for $100 you are able to buy a personalized brick engraved with your name that will symbolize as a foundation of helping Park City High School’s boosters.

As Chester points out, he strongly encourages the local community to take part in the boosters’ club.

“We go out into the community and are active,” Chester said. “Whatever we are able to do puts more money in the pockets of the school. We just want to get people involved.”

As Chester points out, if there is a banner from a local business or supporter at Dozier Field this fall for football games, it will not disappear once the season ends. It makes its way into the gymnasium for men and women’s basketball games in the winter and onto the fence at baseball and softball events come springtime.

“We are trying to create a new environment and that hopefully that will go back into Park City Boosters,” Chester said. “I’ve been going out to them, being active, because (Boosters) is relatively new for Park City.’

The boosters’ club has found creative ways to get sponsorships.

There are in-game announcements via announcing and on the scoreboard. For example, if an establishment wanted to make a Miner first down its own, they could donate money to the club and every time Park City earned a first down, its respective name would be announced.

The funds are needed at PCHS for equipment, uniforms and travel expenses. However, Chester noted that the boosters’ club does not support personalized equipment for students that will eventually leave those programs, which would, in turn, need to be replaced.

“We’re not a piggybank,” he said.

In recent years, the club has made scholarships possible for students, for example, there’s a $2,500 scholarship and five separate $500 scholarships, to boot.

Chester strongly believes getting involved and putting the right foot forward can only help and he continues to actively seek out new avenues of assistance.

“Membership sells,” he said. “That’s what we want here with coaches and the community.”

Chester has been working on a website organized to help spread the word of the boosters’ club. The website, which should be available later this week, is www.theminernation.com.