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Activities director: 1,768 students participated in 2023–24; officials and transportation costs rising
Summary
Activities Director Dale Gunderson told the Grand Rapids Public School District board that 1,768 students participated in athletics during the 2023–24 school year, coaches must meet training requirements, emergency plans are in place and costs for officials and transportation are rising sharply.
Dale Gunderson, activities director for the Grand Rapids Public School District, told the school board the district’s athletics program served 1,768 student-athletes in the 2023–24 school year and remains “an extension of the classroom.”
Gunderson said the total counts reflect only athletics and do not include student council, prom, BPA, FFA, band, choir, speech or drama. “The number of students impacted by our department is, is 1,768 total,” he said.
The activities program covers Grand Rapids and Bigfork high schools and Robert J. Elkington Middle School. Gunderson told the board the district fields roughly 71 teams in Grand Rapids and 10 at Bigfork, plus band, choir, speech and drama, and that booster clubs fund many…
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