Started By
Message

re: What is the cheapest child sport

Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:19 pm to
Posted by Shaun176
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2008
3127 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:19 pm to
Wrestling. USA Wrestling Membership is $60 per year. There are places to train and be coached for $100 per season. 3 seasons per year. Tournaments are $10. Us Military sponsors multiple free camps per year. Top national camps cost $600 per week.

For $260 your kid can be coached for 9 months a year 3 to 4 days a week. For $1000 you can basically max out all in.

My daughter did gymnastics non competitive and it was 600 per semester 10 years ago. Then she did soccer and it was 3k for the club team fees.
This post was edited on 6/23/26 at 4:32 pm
Posted by bluedragon
Birmingham
Member since May 2020
9711 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:23 pm to
All football travels
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
17867 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:24 pm to
Tether ball
Posted by magicman534
The dirty dell
Member since May 2011
1884 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:34 pm to
I thought my son’s club swim was expensive until my daughter started competition dance. It’s a 1/3 of the cost and way less drama.
Posted by stelly1025
Lafayette
Member since May 2012
10283 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 5:07 pm to
Basketball
Posted by ChatGPT of LA
Member since Mar 2023
6921 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 6:01 pm to
Cheapest is to be a real man and spend time training your kid yourself. ALL sports are cheap, if you do it hands on.
A kid will improve 5 times faster getting personal training focused on his weaknesses. Your son won't get better at hitting, by playing travel ball where he might get 5 or 10 at bats per weekend. He could see that many pitches in 5 minutes at a batting facility. Same with fielding.
Do that 3 times per week and he will exponentially improve over having played travel.
Same goes for basketball, etc

Develope the athlete and his skillset, then let him play on the school team or city league.
.my son just shot 400 makes on a shooting machine...finished an hr ago. Work on technique fundamentals that many years of AAU wouldn't be able to develope

Thats After strength and conditioning at local hs summer program for middle school kids.

Play with your kids fellas...cheapest funnest thing you'll ever do...and it will develop them quicker. It's a win win
first pageprev pagePage 5 of 5Next pagelast page
refresh

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookXInstagram