Mission Cup 2024 Recap

By Randy Bratton, Mission Cup Golf Committee Lead / Board Vice President for Father’s Club

Father’s Club just wrapped up our annual fundraiser, the Mission Cup golf tournament. We played at two courses, on two different days, with over 200 golfers, and a group of amazing sponsors.

Thank you to our sponsors!

Global Earthwork & Underground, X-Golf Group, Jeff Tischer, Solvative, Soleran, Worldwide Express, RED WHITE & BLUMA INC, Community Lending of America, Inc., TruckMovers, Nexus 5 Group, Brad Holdhusen AAMS, AIF, Unishippers, Kendra Beer, MBA, and Lacy Foltz

We were blessed with beautiful weather on both days of the tournament! Reed Murphy at  Sycamore Ridge, and Jay Kennedy at Eagles Landing, and their staff members, could not have been more professional and accommodating. We finished each day with delicious food from local favorite Nick & Jakes. We also had some fun, with local golf trick shot artist PaddyWhack entertaining our players.

Thank you Jeff vonSeldeneck!

I want to take a moment to give a VERY special thank you to Jeff vonSeldeneck , the founder and leader of Mission Cup, which just gets better each year. Jeff has been a strong advocate for Father’s Club, having seen the impact up close when his kids were in high school. His leadership of Mission Cup has been outstanding in every way.

Anyone who has ever coordinated a golf tournament knows well that it is not an easy task, and Jeff worked on a 100% volunteer basis, just like all of our great Dads who work to plan and execute Father’s Club events. Jeff is stepping down as our tournament director after 15 amazing years. Well done JV!

Thank you to the Mission Cup Planning Committee

I also want to acknowledge our Mission Cup planning committee: Father’s Club Executive Director Mike Davisson, Christopher Caton, Shaun Reid, and Anthony Bower. It takes a coordinated team effort, and these gentlemen were critical to our success. In addition, we could not pull it off without our volunteers at the golf courses on the day of the tournament: Marlo Bratton, Kristin Holdhusen, Brian R. Bock, Dave Miller, and Jeff Powell. Thanks to all for a huge team effort!

And lastly, thank you to Dormie Network, and Mike Hewitt, their incredibly generous Managing Director of Philanthropy.  Mike not only loves golf, but he is passionate about delivering on their mission of supporting nonprofits. Father’s Club plans to build on that relationship for many years to come, through donor engagement at their world class golf clubs.

Fuel for the engine…

Since aligning with Mission Cup five years ago, Father’s Club has generated over $178,000 and we are excited to share that we netted over $55,000 this year!

Over the past five years, these generous donations have helped us grow from the initial chapter at Blue Valley High School to over 35 local chapters across Kansas City. Considering our current conversations, and those planned between now and the next school year, we anticipate being in over 50 schools in the KC metro, and are in discussions to launch in other markets including multiple schools in Omaha, Nebraska. And we’re just getting started!

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