Marrakesh Meetings

I organize the youth recreation and sports activities for a small town in Florida. Unlike cities in the north, most sports can be played year round in the sunshine state. Though one must bear in mind that the summer heat makes certain outdoor activities impossible. Still, this is a year round sports state and as such my duties include planning events and arranging for sports trophies for all of our town activities. These sports are primarily baseball, soccer, football, and basketball. In contrast to northern states, basketball picks up in the summer here as baseball can only be played at night and half of our basketball facilities are indoors with A/C. I should mention that we have quite a few swimming events as well.

I purchase around 1000 trophies every year for the city and the majority of these are purchased online. My reason for buying these trophies online is that the local retailers are exactly that …retailers. There are no wholesale trophy stores in my area. I can buy cheap trophies that are super high quality for half the price of the local stores. I began this practice of buying cheap trophies with the purchase of baseball trophies. I have found I can purchase a nice assortment of baseball trophies with different figures such as swinging batters, spinning baseballs and gloves large enough to hold a baseball for under $12.00 for the 1st place baseball trophy and an average price per trophy of around $7.00.

Soccer trophies differ in that I am usually buying a smaller series of trophies that include dozens of soccer participation trophies. These are so that the younger kids all feel they are winners. With prices for marble base, bright sparkling column, gold figured participation trophies costing as little as $5.00, we can afford to make sure every player finishes first in our hearts.

Football trophies are generally purchased as part of a champion’s series. By the time one of our school team has finished a 10 game season along with 4 months practice time the winners and runners up deserve football trophies that truly signify the magnitude of their achievement. I by three column, two-tiered championship style football trophies for approximately $40.00 each at Ameritrophy online and these use walnut and marble bases. It is a great thrill to see players hoist these up in the air after winning the big game.

My last major purchase every year in this area is for basketball trophies. I also buy these at Ameritrophy, as the prices and quality are far better than any other online trophy builder. I tried a few of the others only to discover that the figures were of very low quality and the column heights were shorter than claimed.

I can also recommend Ameritrophy for engraved plaques as I have chosen quite a few of these for coach’s awards and corporate recognition awards for other city employees such as myself. I suppose someday I will need to buy an engraved plaque for my own retirement.