CLEVELAND — This is the first year that there’s been an athletic booster club for the entire Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District.

What You Need To Know

  • The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District now has a district-wide athletic booster

  • The booster got Travis and Jason Kelce to allow them to sell replicas of their high school jerseys to raise money

  • Jason and Travis are both gradutes of Cleveland Heights High School

Krissy Dietrich Gallagher is the president and said the new Heights Athletic Boosters club has already helped get banners for all seniors in all sports. 

“It was a big, gaping hole, I think," Gallagher said. "There are a lot of things around athletics that just go beyond what the athletic department can do.”

The booster club may be new, but they have a unique funding opportunity: asking two of the school's most popular alumni for a boost. Jason and Travis Kelce agreed to let the booster club use their names on special replica versions of their high school jerseys. The boosters will sell them to raise money for all athletic programs in the district.

“One of the things we wanna do is host information panels on college recruiting for our student athletes and their families, and that could require paying some experts to come in and be speakers," Gallagher said.

Gallagher is glad the school has two alumni with a following who continue to give back to the heights.

“It fills us all with pride," Gallagher said. "It really makes a difference, I think, to see the heights that you can reach, but that you just don’t forget your roots.”

If the shirts sell well, she already has some ideas on how to use the proceeds.

“Here at the football field there is a dream of building a field house that would have locker rooms, concessions and my personal dream, bathrooms." Gallagher said. "Because this beautiful football facility does not have bathrooms.”

She's hoping the booster club and its new biggest backers can take the heights to new heights.