Team Colors

• The color inspiration for your athletic banquet is simple: incorporate the team's colors into your decorative scheme. You can add color to your banquet venue in a number of ways. Drape linens in one of the team colors over banquet and buffet tables. Hang streamers or fabric on bare walls to add color to them. Visit a local florist to uncover flowers in your team's colors, and scatter bouquets in sterling silver vases throughout the venue.
  
  

Centerpieces

• Let your athletic season be your guide as your choose centerpieces for your banquet. Collect photographs of the team, whether they are official team photos or live action shots from games, and frame them. Place framed photos at the center of each table. If your team received any media coverage, frame newspaper clips about the team's biggest accomplishments. These framed articles will work well as centerpieces, and guests will enjoy reading them and reflecting on the season.
  
  

Photo Montage

• Check the audio-visual capabilities at your banquet venue for this idea. A photo montage can serve as both entertainment and a decoration at your athletic banquet. Using a software program like Microsoft PowerPoint, you can create a slide show of images from the season. Simply insert your favorite digital photos from the season into the presentation. This photo montage can run on loop on a projection screen during the event. Athletes will enjoy seeing their accomplishments on the big screen.
  
  

Award Display

• If your athletic team enjoyed great success this season, showcase the awards the team and individual athletes earned. Set up a table near the front of the room and place medals, trophies and certificates that players earned throughout the year on it. If you're distributing trophies or awards at the banquet, you can place these awards on the table as well. Seeing all of the team's accomplishments displayed on one table will surely delight the athletes and their families.