This was scary

[Mark Padgett]

Yeah - $95 for grades 3-8 and $110 for HS rec. For that they get 12 games, about 20 practices, a nice reversible jersey in the local HS colors (green and white) and insurance. Compared to other sports around here, that's cheap. We also have a scholarship program and this year we gave out 53 scholarships to kids from low income families. Also - a local restaurant is now giving us 5% of their sales on certain nights and that money goes to buy equipment (shoes, shorts, etc.) for scholarship kids.

Although we are all volunteers on our Board, we do have to rent the gyms for practices and games from the school district (by far our biggest expense), pay the refs, pay a company for website registration, buy the jerseys, pay for a phone line with voice mail, pay for running background checks on all coaches and asst. coaches, pay for equipment (balls, scorebooks, first aid kits, etc.) and supplies plus pay for insurance. And - there's always some misc. expenses. We also allocate about $5000 per season for scholarships. We are a non-profit.