I swim with a combined age group and masters team and am the master representative on the team's board. Our team is roughly 100 swimmers from 5 to 50+ and we live in one of the wealthiest counties in the country. Last week, our board adopted a new budget that added about 20,000 on to the monthly expenses. Sadly, I'm also a scout leader and had to go to a scout event and missed the budget. Our current fee structure doesn't support the new budget so the board is looking to raise the fee the swimmers pay. So I'm looking in to what other masters pay for their team. I'd also like to know how many hours a week you are offered coached workouts, if your fee includes the pool entry and if it's a combined masters and age group team.
A board member claims he read on the ASCA web site that the average monthly fee to masters is $50 and that was in 2004. I'm looking around the area and out of state and I don't see anything to support higher than that today. My fear is that if they raise the fees too much for the masters, the members will leave (we currently only have 6 - with additional 5 recently leaving over coaching issues and lack of lane space as they moved to to 1 lane to give the kids a morning practice).
So here's where we are now:
$45 a month/ 3 hours a week offered/ pool fee not included/ age group and masters combined.
I forgot to include my OWS costs previously. Again, it's fairly minimal compared to others here. I swim with a local Tri club every Tuesday at a lake in upstate NY and while I have done a couple Mini Triathlons, I am not much of a biker and cannot run at all due to arthritis (I walk the 5K), so I joined primarily for the swims. To join the club is $60/year and the fee for the whole 14 week season of OWS is $100 if prepaid, or $10 a night if paying weekly. There is another local Tri club in Saratoga with Thursday night swims with a similar fee structure.
The Triathlon clubs, as with local running clubs do not depend only of member fees to balance their budget. They make most of their money through race entry fees and sponsors.
I forgot to include my OWS costs previously. Again, it's fairly minimal compared to others here. I swim with a local Tri club every Tuesday at a lake in upstate NY and while I have done a couple Mini Triathlons, I am not much of a biker and cannot run at all due to arthritis (I walk the 5K), so I joined primarily for the swims. To join the club is $60/year and the fee for the whole 14 week season of OWS is $100 if prepaid, or $10 a night if paying weekly. There is another local Tri club in Saratoga with Thursday night swims with a similar fee structure.
The Triathlon clubs, as with local running clubs do not depend only of member fees to balance their budget. They make most of their money through race entry fees and sponsors.
