team tents

From past years cross country and track parents have bought heavy duty high quality 10'x10' tents for meets. At times these tents were left at the school and used by other sports teams. This has consistently been a disaster with damaged tents being returned.
I have the newest tent (E-Z UP Eclipse II steel) with about 14 broken struts and other miscellaneous damage. The new struts are about $9 each plus shipping. The repair cost might be around $200. I'd like to take up a little collection this time rather than buying parts myself. When repaired it is important that the tents not be kept at the school unless it was a locked up running storage compartment. The best has been a student -parent keeping the tents at a home and bringing them to the bus for meets. Perhaps, we can do a collection at the next meet.
(A little update: Repairs done on this tent were with incorrect strut sizes and probably caused much of the present damage).