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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two thing to distinguish:

1. If you don’t intend to travel with your child to tournaments, the high VAE cost is comparable to what the end total would come out to playing for a more expensive club. However, if you do plan on traveling to watch your daughter play, you are now looking at a ridiculous amount of money being spent.

2. MVSA is the only low-budget club that is competitive, and their competitiveness is limited mainly to the younger age groups before their best players leave for a Metro or for a Paramount. MVSA is great for all the reasons other people have already mentioned.

3. Club fees can be deceptive. For example, for a Metro Travel team, you see on their website that the fee is $4,200, which appears lower than the other competitive clubs in our area. However, what you have to realize is that uniforms/gear are not included (expect about $1,000), coaches travel/airfare/stipend is not included (this can run you upwards of $1,000 PER TOURNAMENT), and then you also have to pay an additional stipend for nationals. MDJRS has the same model for their elite teams. In contrast, VAJRS and Paramount include coaches travel/stipend in the fee, so you are only responsible for you and your child’s airfare. If you do the math, then a MDJRS/Metro ends up being more expensive by the end of the season than a VAJRS/Paramount/VAE. [/quote]

You are correct that Metro Travel fees do not include uniforms and other gear and coaches travel costs but your estimates are off. You’re pretty close on the uniform/gear package - it was around $700 with a few extra, non-mandatory things thrown in. The uniform package is good for 3 years so if your DD plays multiple years for Metro Travel you don’t have to pay that each year. The coach travel costs are way less than you cited.  It generally works out to somewhere between $150-$250 per tournament per player, depending on whether the tournaments require flights, how expensive the hotels are in a particular city, etc. Including Nationals, the older travel teams go to 7-8 tournaments that require travel fees. Using the high end of the range (8x$250) the coach travel fees for the season are around $2000. So the total for a season in which you have to buy uniforms is $4250 in club fees + $2000 in coach travel + $700 for the uniform package = $6950 which is very close to Paramount, VAJRs, or the base VAE club fee. [/quote]

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