How old is your child and what do you pay for their sport a year?

[Anonymous]

8 year old girl soccer-3k, gymnastics 4k , tennis and swimming lessons as can be fit in about 500. Oh but then sports camps for summer maybe another 1500
7 year old boy rec gymnastics, maybe 800, tennis and swimming throughout the year probably total 800
4 year old boy rec gymnastics, maybe 500, swimming 300.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Competitive squash for a 14 year old: about $30K / year which includes coaching and travel costs.

Why? It got a little popular awhile back but not anymore in the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Competitive squash for a 14 year old: about $30K / year which includes coaching and travel costs.

Why? It got a little popular awhile back but not anymore in the US.

Tiger mom thinks it’s the way to get into Ivy. Little does she know teams are 60 percent international and very small rosters

[Anonymous]

One of the top 5 volleyball clubs in region will set you back around 10k, plus parental travel cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Competitive squash for a 14 year old: about $30K / year which includes coaching and travel costs.

Why? It got a little popular awhile back but not anymore in the US.

Tiger mom thinks it’s the way to get into Ivy. Little does she know teams are 60 percent international and very small rosters

There are very few sports still open to tiger moms with unathletic kids. Fencing may be the only other one unless you count something like equestrian where the barriers to entry is beyond even most UMC families

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Anonymous wrote:11 year old boy; has tried all sorts of sports, here is where we are now:

Little League Baseball: $200 sign up fee, average about $150/year in equipment, doing it for fun to be with friends; only a year left

Cross Country - Started this year, through school and then a club team, both extremely affordable, $52 for school team, $200 for indoor track, $0 for summer conditioning, 2 pairs of shoes about $200; running will probably end up as main sport

Sailing - Horrifying and I will never add it up. Not even close to the highest level and doing it in a lower cost area and still insane (but grandparents help on this one).

Now I’m curious how horrifying sailing is, with an equestrian in the house…

Ha, right? I was just trying to add this in my head for my two daughters who ride and it's in the multiple six figures per year...

[Anonymous]

9 years old. Youth wrestling. $200 a year, plus shoes (maybe $40?)

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Anonymous wrote:Hockey ~ $20k between club dues, travel, equipment, privates, spring/summer stuff, and a camp or two

+1. Same but for soccer.

[Anonymous]

Thankfully my oldest plays in college now, so, I don't have any more registration fees, but at one point I was paying for travel hockey, travel lacrosse, youth football (7v7 and tackle), travel baseball, travel basketball and competitive dance. With fees, equipment and travel, I was easily shelling out $55-60k/yr, and that's being modest.

[Anonymous]

DD, 8: Equestrian who shows in rated shows and local shows: $12,580 this year. And rec regional softball: $320.

DD, 17: Archer- $620 for gear to upgrade her to JOAD team

Dear Jesus!

[Anonymous]

WTH for hockey and sailing???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully my oldest plays in college now, so, I don't have any more registration fees, but at one point I was paying for travel hockey, travel lacrosse, youth football (7v7 and tackle), travel baseball, travel basketball and competitive dance. With fees, equipment and travel, I was easily shelling out $55-60k/yr, and that's being modest.

What sport is she still playing after taking lessons in all of the main sports?

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Anonymous wrote:DD, 8: Equestrian who shows in rated shows and local shows: $12,580 this year. And rec regional softball: $320.

DD, 17: Archer- $620 for gear to upgrade her to JOAD team

Dear Jesus!

Where does your kid do archery- that sounds cool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:11 year old boy; has tried all sorts of sports, here is where we are now:

Little League Baseball: $200 sign up fee, average about $150/year in equipment, doing it for fun to be with friends; only a year left

Cross Country - Started this year, through school and then a club team, both extremely affordable, $52 for school team, $200 for indoor track, $0 for summer conditioning, 2 pairs of shoes about $200; running will probably end up as main sport

Sailing - Horrifying and I will never add it up. Not even close to the highest level and doing it in a lower cost area and still insane (but grandparents help on this one).

What school or league does sailing?

[Anonymous]

Club & HS season Volleyball + Summer Beach Volleyball/Midwest, DS 16:

Club fees: $4500 (Practices 2x/week + local weekend tournaments)
Uniforms: $500
Travel expenses: $3000?+ (cost varies, depending on if we have FF miles to use for the 2 national tournaments)
One week intensive positional training/setter: $650
Parks & Rec Summer Beach Volleyball Tournament: $60 per team to enter
HS Team Summer Camp (1 week) and Summer League: $120

So, $8-9k all in. He also works as counselor for beach volleyball summer camp for ES kids. So that offsets the cost a little, if I'm trying to be positive.