[GeeTwo]

The first few years, we just charged enough for t-shirts and goggles. The amount has increased over time; we are now asking $150 per student team member, in addition to bona fide fundraising attempts. When we earned a trip to CMP in 2015, we established a fund raising goal for each student through a piggybackr campaign and face to face with local businesses; if they met the goal, they did not have to pay out of pocket. IIRC, most of the students met the goal through fund raising alone. Because the school allowed us to send 2 more people than we had on varsity, we opened up those two slots to the top fund raisers of the JV, who each brought in over $1000 in the blitz.

Edit: Our student fee is still less than band, flag team, cheerleaders, and most (perhaps all) sports teams at Slidell High. The school does not provide us any $$ support apart from a coach's stipend, and in 2015 the school board paid our registration fee to CMP.