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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sailing
Rowing
Equestrian
Lacrosse
Ski Racing
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Not sure, my kids did sailing, rowing, lacrosse, golf but most expensive was volleyball. [/quote]

My kid does sailing, except equestrian I can't imagine anything is close. It's insane. We can't keep up with the top kids/families. Just as an example last week was the US Team Trials for the boat DS sails, 250 kids, you had to qualify to go. 3-4 days of training and then 4 days of racing. Easily $10k for the week, but most spent many more than that. If you make one of the international event teams you have 24 hours to pay the fee for the event - between $7k - $12k depending on where you qualify - or else it goes to the next person. The top sailing schools know exactly what route each kid took to get there and can roughly estimate how much that cost. The kids work really hard, but you have to be able to fund it, which means you can also fund top schools (for the most part). My example is for kids no older than 15, it only goes up from there. [/quote]

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