I couldn't keep quiet any longer. A quick check on clubs that charge for tryouts: Crossfire, Federal Way, Washington Premier, NWN, and FC Vancouver just to name a few.
Soccernw there are many fallacies in what you assert to be the truth. FC Kent coaches are NOT paid coaches. I know because my dh is one of them. Not once has he ever received a paycheck for his time and effort. Only the appreciation and growth of his players. In fact, we have spent money out of our pocket so he could further his knowledge of the game and attend a national c course (read-registration fee, vacation from work since it is a daytime, several day course, missing dh and dad, etc). Yes, he has a paid trainer but it is included in the team budget and parents know up front and choose to play on his team willingly.
In addition, the $10 tryout fee does not cover much more than field and light costs. Wilson fields run $60/hour w/o lights and $75/hour w/ lights. This is per field and most of the time we need both fields! Considering that we have reserved Wilson fields for approximately 122 hours over the 18 days that we run tryouts at $60 per hour on the cheap end (most of the time is in the late afternoon/evenings so it will actually be $75) we will be seeing a field bill of approximately $7,320. Divide this by $10 and we will need at least 732 players to show up for tryouts in order to break even.
In regards to your comments about costs being run up by Dos, you are wrong. The decision to charge $10 was made by the KYSA board. Since Dos is a club under KYSA, the fee was imposed on them. There was discussion about why charge a fee and it came down to the fact that in order to run a program for the long term, we must be fiscally responsible. In order to do that, we felt it best to offset some of the costs for fields by charging a $10 fee.
As a non-profit 501(c)3 KYSA does not and cannot pay salaries to any of their board members. All the time and effort put in is done by choice because board members want to give back to the community in some way. If you are not happy with the way KYSA is doing things, there is something you can do! Run for election at our AGM on February 28 for any of the open positions we have available. We are always looking for volunteers and people to help lighten the load for those that are doing something. Unfortunately I learned quickly when I was a PTA President that many will complain but few will step up to fix it.
In short the message is - make sure you have your facts straight before you go and spew a bunch of non-truths.
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