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Youth Sports Budget Worksheet

One Season, Every Line, What It Actually Returns

Most families have never added up what one season costs. They know the club fee and are surprised by everything else. Fill it out right here — the totals add themselves up, your numbers save on this device, and the printed version keeps them. Bring it to your monthly spend review and we will tell you which lines are working.

The return column is our honest read for a middle school athlete, grades six through eight. Several of these lines change value entirely once the athlete reaches ninth grade.

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TOTAL FOR ONE SEASON
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Times three for grades six through eight —
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Now compare that three-year number to what the same money would be worth in a college savings account by the time your athlete is a senior. That comparison is the entire argument of this document, and it is the one nobody in youth sports will run for you.

BEFORE YOU COMMIT TO NEXT SEASON
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Send this to us before you pay.

Members get one written spend review a month. Fill in the lines you are being asked to commit to, send us the sheet, and you get a yes or no with the reasoning — before the money leaves. Call (865) 696-0559 or visit HigherDegreeRecruit.com.