Same, except SC schools do not compete at nationals. But they payed to bus us to all games, home and away and competitions on Saturday all across the state, there and back. Competition fees come out of our budget, which we fundraised for. No competition fee or travel money ever came out of pocket
$300 is completely reasonable if you have a school set of uniforms and don't go to camp or pay for a professional choreographer. Those things really aren't necessary for high school sports.
Choreography is extremely necessary for our district, and when you include warmups, bows, practice wear, and shoes 300 doesnt stretch that far.
I just wanted to point out that it can be done. Shoes, necessary, $60-80. Bows, necessary, but you can have a mom make practice bows and your comp bows can easily be less than $20. Schools can have a school set of warm ups - you'll have to fundraise initially but then you're set. Practice wear - unnecessary. White t-shirt, black shorts, every kid has something that will work already, bam, done. So you're looking at right around $100. That leaves $200 for transportation and things like choreo/music/whatever else is deemed "necessary."
All moms can't make bows. All of parents work time consuming demanding jobs. Practice wear also doubles and travel wear so it is completley necessary. I understand that mindset completley we are getting three custom bows for under 20. We cut every corner this year.
That's about what I spend for HS school cheer also. The $800 is for summer program (2 days a week 2 1/2 hrs a day at a local All Star gym for stunting and tumbling end of June to mid-August). Bows, briefs, new warm up, sneakers and then $40 per month Sept to March for gym fees. I don't pay comp fees, or transportation fees for football games or comps. On top of HS cheer, she also does All Star so basically I work to pay for cheer.
This is my first year coaching the program, the previous coaches have wiped out the account entirely, and left us with choreographers and Varsity accounts that we still owe. I was hired in July, you have to work with the AD to establish fundraisers. He just got back from a one month vacation. Summer is prime time for fundraisers, so we didn't have a bunch of time to fund raise for anything. 300 is not a lot of money when everything has to be re ordered because the administration was not pleased with the look of the cheerleaders last year. However, they are barely offering us funding.
Not pleased? Can you explain?
They didn't care for the warmups that were purchased, they weren't in the schools colors. Girls had noticeably mismatched bows, and shoes. A lot of foolishness due to previous coach, who drove the program into the ground.
And left you with a huge tab.. smh.
I would do plain, grosgrain bows and not care about shoes as long as they were all white cheer shoes. For warm-ups, do they need waterproof? If not, matching hoodies and yoga pants or warm-up pants.
