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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid has done a few years of club, at both low level clubs and mid level clubs. Dues around $4-5,000 and that did include uniform. Low level club did tournaments at DC Convention Center, the Gaylord, some place in Jessup, a place in Rockville, a place in Chantilly and then the end of season one in Virginia Beach (only one that required a hotel). For these you have gas, sometimes parking (and parking can be ridiculously expensive), spectator tickets, swag and food (but the food costs can vary because often you can go back to your car and do a tailgate)

Things really escalated in midlevel club because these often “required” pay to play hotels or would be just far away enough that you needed a hotel. We went to Spooky Nook, Roanoke, York, PA, Baltimore [b](we were threatened if we didn’t stay in team hotel our kid would be benched)[/b], Philadelphia and Virginia Beach, plus Gaylord and Convention Center. So no flights required, all driving, but the hotels and multiple days out of town cost $$$$$. Teams frequently plan to eat meals together and you’re expected to pay for the coach.

Just go into this with your eyes wide open. Just because your DD’s team didn’t cost a lot one year doesn’t make that universal and vice verse. [/quote]

Club coach here. That is outrageously unethical to threaten benching a kid over where they're staying for a tournament that you shouldn't even have to do a hotel stay for (my team also played Charm City last year).[/quote]

I heard someone high up in admin/coach say this during a zoom for ALL age groups, all levels on a club wide zoom last year for ECP so this definitely happens. [/quote]

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