Touchdown” and “three-pointer” are both words that the Antioch Community High School athletic department loves to hear, thanks to generous donations from ACHS sponsor Raymond Chevrolet.

The sponsorship started about 17 years ago in 1998 and is still going on today. The program began because Raymond Chevrolet wanted to sponsor ACHS’s athletic department so the school could afford new and updated equipment for athletes. Since the sponsorship started, Raymond Chevrolet expanded their program to four other schools. Over the last five years the dealership gave over $60,000 to Grant Community High School, Johnsburg High School and Richmond Burton High School combined.

The school receives a twenty five dollar donation every time one of the school’s teams scores. The donation is not limited to just the football team when they score a touchdown; a donation is given for every three point basket, home run, birdie, or field hockey and soccer goal.

Since the scholarship program started, ACHS received $65,000 from Raymond Chevrolet. All of the money donated goes directly to the athletic department. In preparation for the opening of Lakes Community High School, the $33,000 that the school received through Raymond Chevrolet went to updated athletic equipment. This was done so that both District 117 schools would have the same athletic equipment and opportunities.

ACHS athletic director Steven Schoenfelder said, “New outdoor scoreboards, hurdles, wrestling mats, bleachers for outdoor fields, gymnastics beam, a uneven bar and many new items that will be used in the stadium next year have been paid for using the Raymond money.”

All of the hard work Sequoit athletes put in is paid off through the Raymond Chevrolet sponsorship. Through the sponsorship, ACHS’s athletic department is able to afford the luxuries of new updated equipment that benefit not only the athletes, but Sequoit fans as well. In the future, the donations from Raymond will allow the high school to provide much more equipment for the department.