Cost of High School Ball

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Nov 29, 2009
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If there was when my DD's played I never knew it. The coach would do a fundraiser once a year. My DD's didn't have to pay to play the sport.
 

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Feb 25, 2009
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I don't understand your question. Are you asking as a coach? I don't really have a budget. I have funds where we raise money and keep them in the softball account. We just put a huge amount of money in there from concessions stands that the HC and players worked. However, we have to do major work on our diamonds and so, that fund will be depleted quickly. As long as we are always working to try to put monies into the softball fund, our AD will work with us. Also, we have one booster club for all of the sports in our HS. The booster club tries to help all sports out based upon needs. As another example, I am the HC in Girl's Golf. I put $90 in a few weeks ago and next week I will put $250 in. We are buying new golf bags for my 10 member team. If you do the math, I'm a little short for what it would cost to buy 10 new golf bags. LOL

Oh, and no, the coaches aren't told what it cost to do a game.

Edited to add:

If you are asking as a parent and want to know the cost/game per your child getting on the field, then you are forgetting all of the practices. My teams practice 6 days a week. We practice a minimum of 2 1/2 hours but mostly closer to 3 hours. We have great facilities including two turfed cages, a bunting station, ... for hitting, screens for all kinds of things, ... Players and parents get their money's worth and more in my opinion.
 
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Aug 29, 2011
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NorCal
My DD's not there yet. If I recall correctly from some other parents on the booster club the schools "asks" for a $350 per player fee but can't require it for anyone.
 
Jul 19, 2014
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Madison, WI
Our school has a $115 fee per child per sport, with a cap of about $500 per family, except many sports have extra fees. For example, it costs over $1000 to play boys' hockey.
 
Sep 29, 2010
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Knoxville, TN
Our teams budget is around $15,000 per year. This covers everything including hotels for the girls at three tournaments, four if we make it to state, umpire fees, balls, field maintenance, uniforms, facility rental, etc.

We fundraise mainly in the summer and fall before homecoming for our candidate. The money each family raises goes towards their child's fees, $750 per player, or they can choose to just write a check. I don't know anyone who doesn't fundraise on our team because for the most part, everyone gets along and has a good time at our fundraisers which include golf tourney, softball clinic for the young players, running a concession booth at FB games, flower sales, candy sales, selling ad signs to hang in the outfield, etc. in our three years the team has always exceeded the minimum budget.

We had a couple thousand left over after having to buy a used Gator for field maintenance last year, but we raised over 20k in the past few months. It's really great to have a group where everyone has bought in to the process! BTW, $750 per kid at 46 games last year equals a little over sixteen bucks a game. :)
 
Nov 27, 2012
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I don't understand your question. Are you asking as a coach? I don't really have a budget. I have funds where we raise money and keep them in the softball account. We just put a huge amount of money in there from concessions stands that the HC and players worked. However, we have to do major work on our diamonds and so, that fund will be depleted quickly. As long as we are always working to try to put monies into the softball fund, our AD will work with us. Also, we have one booster club for all of the sports in our HS. The booster club tries to help all sports out based upon needs. As another example, I am the HC in Girl's Golf. I put $90 in a few weeks ago and next week I will put $250 in. We are buying new golf bags for my 10 member team. If you do the math, I'm a little short for what it would cost to buy 10 new golf bags. LOL

Oh, and no, the coaches aren't told what it cost to do a game.

Edited to add:

If you are asking as a parent and want to know the cost/game per your child getting on the field, then you are forgetting all of the practices. My teams practice 6 days a week. We practice a minimum of 2 1/2 hours but mostly closer to 3 hours. We have great facilities including two turfed cages, a bunting station, ... for hitting, screens for all kinds of things, ... Players and parents get their money's worth and more in my opinion.


I am asking as a parent. It cost my daughter 1000$ to play high school ball. This number can vary due to various factors in different high schools.
I want to know the total cost/total games, it should give cost per game. Total cost are things that are day to day operational expenses like umpires, lights, field maintainance, coaches salary etc. I would not include for ex. building a batting cage. We were given a budget of 55,000$ for this year. This is for regular operating expense.
 

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