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Old 08-19-2008, 05:00 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters View Post
swim team dues 150/month.

again, a good explanation about why the pool of athletes that comprise competitive swimming is so small. It explains why Cullen Jones is only the 2nd African American on the US Swim Team in Olympic history.

Wowzers that is expensive.

That's for 2 kids though, one of whom has the opportunity to be coached twice daily if he chooses to. That's a lot of bang for the buck imo when you divide that price by two. Our team offers need based "scholarships" so that if somebody without the means wants to swim they'll swim. I think a lot of teams do this.

Also, I think you may be underestimating the cost of baseball, football, basketball to some extent. Since so many kids specialize now there are a lot of club teams versus the school teams that you and I grew up on. The club teams and pop warner football etc.. really aren't very cheap by the time you pay for equipment and travel.

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