Santa Barbara Sports Drive

The Santa Barbara Sports Drive is an annual sports equipment and clothing drive to:

• Get kids off the street and into sports!
• Increase membership and participation at the Boys & Girls Club
• To recycle sports equipment and clothing

Click here to learn more about our 3 main goals..

The Sports Drive team is comprised of the core leadership team, 15 Founding Members, & 15 Junior Members. The sports drive team works with Kim Kjar, Athletic Director of the Santa Barbara Boys and Girls Club. This team coordinates the collection of donations and the annual Sports Drive event a single day event in which the previously collected gently-used sports equipment and clothing will be donated to the Boys and Girls Club (receipts provided to donors), and then provided directly to kids from low-income families at the Annual Sports Drive in the spring of each year. Each year we bring in younger team member to learn to continue the tradition as our older members move away to college.

See how the Sports Drive all began.

The Sports Drive Team collects the donated sports equipment and clothing in the fall and early winter from drop locations at various local schools such as: Montecito Union, Laguna Blanca, Crane, Marymount, Bishop Diego, El Montecito, SB Middle School, and Cold Springs. Once the donations are collected and prepared, tickets to the Sports Drive are distributed to various agencies that support kids in need. The agencies then distribute the tickets directly to the kids in need so that they can come to the Sports Drive event that is usually held in March or April of every year. At the event, kids can select the sports equipment and clothing that they need. For example, tickets will go to the Transition House, CASA, and the current Boys and Girls Club members. Extra tickets are provided to those kids who bring in new Boys and Girls Club members. Each ticket is good for a designated number of FREE items at the event, such assports clothing, shoes, gloves, bats, balls, bikes, basketballs, baseballs,footballs,and other sports stuff. We also hold a raffle during the event to award additional items. These are primarily the larger donated items such as bicycles, golf clubs, tickets to events, surf boards, and portable backboards. Any excess items are donated to the local Boys and Girls Club or saved for the next event.

In addition, donations are accepted year-round. Please contact the see theContact Us page if you have any equipment or clothing that you would like to donate.