What is your annual cost per sport for a "local" travel team

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Don’t forget the 100 a week in private batting/pitching lessons. Those really add up.

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Anonymous wrote:What age and sport? My kid is in elementary and not on a super competitive/tournament heavy baseball team right now. A few tournaments, field and umpire costs for league games, uniforms, and winter workout space is estimated to run about $1,200 per kid. I’m estimating another $300 for new gear. That’s not including hotels or travel costs, or any of the team meal/snack expectations.

Elementary schools kids should not be in travel sports. What a racket

If they did A/B teams for rec, we would have stayed. But by 4th/5th its really frustrating to keep starting over with kids brand new to the sport who are afraid of the ball and aren't even generally familiar with how the game is played.

This. If a kid is good enough, rec becomes frustrating and boring for almost every sport

Thats because parents flee to travel. If they didn't flee, rec would be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:What age and sport? My kid is in elementary and not on a super competitive/tournament heavy baseball team right now. A few tournaments, field and umpire costs for league games, uniforms, and winter workout space is estimated to run about $1,200 per kid. I’m estimating another $300 for new gear. That’s not including hotels or travel costs, or any of the team meal/snack expectations.

Elementary schools kids should not be in travel sports. What a racket

If they did A/B teams for rec, we would have stayed. But by 4th/5th its really frustrating to keep starting over with kids brand new to the sport who are afraid of the ball and aren't even generally familiar with how the game is played.

This. If a kid is good enough, rec becomes frustrating and boring for almost every sport

Thats because parents flee to travel. If they didn't flee, rec would be fine.

If the dog hadn’t stopped to sh¡t, he would have caught the rabbit.

[Anonymous]

AAA Hockey season - $5500 - $8000 just for the season dues. An extra $1,000 for the uniform (not including gear). And about $5 - $10k in travel & tournament expenses. That's about base level for AAA hockey here.

Additional expenses: spring/summer teams, additional lessons & ice time, gear - skates, sticks, gloves, etc.

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Sounds about right for baseball.

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DD’s softball team traveled to NJ-PA-DE-NC-SC as well as local VA and MD tourneys. Not including our travel costs or one-time uniform costs, fees were $300-350 for fall, winter and summer each (no spring because of HS). No fundraising. Coaches are volunteers and not paid. We know we’re fortunate.

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Anonymous wrote:What age and sport? My kid is in elementary and not on a super competitive/tournament heavy baseball team right now. A few tournaments, field and umpire costs for league games, uniforms, and winter workout space is estimated to run about $1,200 per kid. I’m estimating another $300 for new gear. That’s not including hotels or travel costs, or any of the team meal/snack expectations.

Elementary schools kids should not be in travel sports. What a racket

If they did A/B teams for rec, we would have stayed. But by 4th/5th its really frustrating to keep starting over with kids brand new to the sport who are afraid of the ball and aren't even generally familiar with how the game is played.

This. If a kid is good enough, rec becomes frustrating and boring for almost every sport

Thats because parents flee to travel. If they didn't flee, rec would be fine.

No. It’s because every year they let multiple kids join the team who have never played and can’t play, joining kids who have played for 5+ seasons. Past the age of ten there should be a separate rec league for “players with no experience” but there isn’t.

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Club swimming- elite level, ended up being close to $10K the last few years. Lots of travel meets, tech suits, hotels, meals.

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Anonymous wrote:What age and sport? My kid is in elementary and not on a super competitive/tournament heavy baseball team right now. A few tournaments, field and umpire costs for league games, uniforms, and winter workout space is estimated to run about $1,200 per kid. I’m estimating another $300 for new gear. That’s not including hotels or travel costs, or any of the team meal/snack expectations.

Elementary schools kids should not be in travel sports. What a racket

If they did A/B teams for rec, we would have stayed. But by 4th/5th its really frustrating to keep starting over with kids brand new to the sport who are afraid of the ball and aren't even generally familiar with how the game is played.

It’s dangerous for them, imo.

[Anonymous]

NoVA travel softball team for MS here. $2500 is high for what you are describing. DH coaches and says he definitely would not pay more. We are a B/C team - the furthest tourneys have been in Baltimore and Williamsburg - but 80-90% of them are local thankfully. In our 4th year playing this fall.

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24 hrs a week of dance studio classes year round plus performances
3 weeks of dance in NYC in the summer
$14K

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This is so sad to me. If a bunch of new girls were all put together and not integrated with some experienced players, how would the new girls ever have a chance of learning the sport? They would also get clobbered every game. My experience w/ rec is that after 4th grade ... there may be one or two new kids per season on a team, if any. And often those kids are good (often kids are just new to sport but athletic, eager to learn).

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Anonymous wrote:What age and sport? My kid is in elementary and not on a super competitive/tournament heavy baseball team right now. A few tournaments, field and umpire costs for league games, uniforms, and winter workout space is estimated to run about $1,200 per kid. I’m estimating another $300 for new gear. That’s not including hotels or travel costs, or any of the team meal/snack expectations.

Elementary schools kids should not be in travel sports. What a racket

If they did A/B teams for rec, we would have stayed. But by 4th/5th its really frustrating to keep starting over with kids brand new to the sport who are afraid of the ball and aren't even generally familiar with how the game is played.

This. If a kid is good enough, rec becomes frustrating and boring for almost every sport

Thats because parents flee to travel. If they didn't flee, rec would be fine.

No. It’s because every year they let multiple kids join the team who have never played and can’t play, joining kids who have played for 5+ seasons. Past the age of ten there should be a separate rec league for “players with no experience” but there isn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:What age and sport? My kid is in elementary and not on a super competitive/tournament heavy baseball team right now. A few tournaments, field and umpire costs for league games, uniforms, and winter workout space is estimated to run about $1,200 per kid. I’m estimating another $300 for new gear. That’s not including hotels or travel costs, or any of the team meal/snack expectations.

Elementary schools kids should not be in travel sports. What a racket

If they did A/B teams for rec, we would have stayed. But by 4th/5th its really frustrating to keep starting over with kids brand new to the sport who are afraid of the ball and aren't even generally familiar with how the game is played.

This. If a kid is good enough, rec becomes frustrating and boring for almost every sport

Thats because parents flee to travel. If they didn't flee, rec would be fine.

No. It’s because every year they let multiple kids join the team who have never played and can’t play, joining kids who have played for 5+ seasons. Past the age of ten there should be a separate rec league for “players with no experience” but there isn’t.

Yeah, or a short developmental season that is required before you can start to play anything beyond coach pitch for baseball. Every season we have had 1-2 kids who don’t know the sport and don’t really want to be there but their parents want them in a sport. They often get hit by avoidable pitches, cry, make tons of errors and have a miserable time. It’s sad for all the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:24 hrs a week of dance studio classes year round plus performances
3 weeks of dance in NYC in the summer
$14K

Yeah my kid does dance too, and I was going to say the cost is exorbitant. I try to keep a lid on it, but even so it’s $1200 a month, plus hotel costs. My kid does less company pieces than others because I try to keep costs in check. But still.,,