Dang. I saved our lacrosse team $7600

Published: Fri, 02/16/18

 
I was just doing some math - and realized I saved our lacrosse team $7600 in uniform costs by doing a little homework.

Our county has a 'deal' with one of the big sports apparel companies. As a club sport, we have the benefit of getting the same 40% discount, but we don't have to use that company.

So I priced out getting our uniforms with that discount. For 44 sets of uniforms, which included 2 pairs of shorts and 2 jerseys, the price was $10,400. 

That was a tough hit for our parents, so I did some research. What I ended up with was awesome uniforms from a brand name - total cost: $2,800.

​​​​​​​That savings of nearly $175 per player was huge for our program, considering parents were already paying close to $700 to play a club sport.

I know most of us coaches don't have time to do this kind of research and just end up ordering whatever is suggested. 

But what I did is pretty easily repeatable, and if you or a team manager have a few minutes, you could save your program a boatload of cash.

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