The Arrow Card Drive: Results, Prizes and History
Saint Ursula Academy students hit fundraising goals, leading to more scholarships and better prizes.
Assistant Principal Liz Huebner (left) and Principal Lindsay Jordan (right) explain the details of the 2025 Arrow Card Drive. Photo by Caroline Ryden.
By Sophia Opaczewski and Caroline Ryden
September 29, 2025
TOLEDO, OH – After a month-long drive, Saint Ursula Academy met every Arrow Card fundraising goal to provide scholarship money for new and returning students.
Hitting all the goals gave students a chance to win prizes, dress down during the drive and earn three extra days off from school on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 and Tuesday, Feb. 17.
After two days of Eighth Grade Visitations, the students eagerly awaited the drawing of prizes on Thursday, Sept. 25.
Selling 10 or more cards allowed students to wear any shoe they wanted, while 15 or more cards let them dress down for the rest of the drive and entered them into a raffle for the chance of winning a prize.
These prizes vary each year; this year, students were offered a cash prize and a choice of a cooler bag or a Polaroid camera.
The winners of these prizes are the two highest Arrow Card sellers and two randomly selected students from each grade level.
Top sellers include Isabella Wheeler, a Junior Academy student who sold 55 cards, and Farryn Fleitz, another Junior Academy student with 51 cards sold.
Even though the drive is over, Arrow Cards are able to be used at participating local businesses for discounts until Sept. 1 of next year.
The Arrow Card Drive does not only benefit those who purchase a card. “70% of our students receive some sort of scholarship,” said Jennifer Stopar, SUA Fundraising Coordinator.
The annual drive began in 2013, but the prizes were much simpler: dress downs and days off only. There were no coolers, drink fridges or Polaroid cameras.
Over the years, the drive has grown in both prize and profit. This year, 2025, is predicted to be the best year in average sales per student, “I haven’t done an average for this year yet,” said Mrs. Stopar, “and this is the best year we’ve had.”
The drive is not just crucial to parents and faculty, but to students as well.
“The girls are starting to really understand giving back and what the Arrow Card does,” said Mrs. Stopar. “[W]hat the sales do and where the money goes, and that it’s not a frugal thing that we're doing. There's a purpose behind it and a very purposeful fundraiser event.”
