Michigan District Event Calendar

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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

Its not good planning to put the two closest events to the U.P one week after another. This district event pilot program will for sure now cost more money, than the traditional regional, because we will not pull our high schoolers out of school 2 weeks in a row. Thus making us travel farther and spend more on travel.

Sort of. If you are comparing to 1 regional then doing 1 district should be slightly less (traverse city is slightly further than WI and Minnesota events). $1,000 less registration fee would offset that. For 2 regionals, it would be close depending on team size. You will have $5K less in registration fees, but additional travel fees from the additional 120 miles x2 =240 miles. Either way you are looking at the same meals/ overnights.
If you do 1 district and then 1 out of state regional it should be slightly less than the 2 closest regionals from registration fees and about the same miles.
If you do 2 districts, State Championship, then yes that is more travel and cost than 2 regionals. Registration would be $1000 less, but the added travel will eat that up (1 380 mile plus 2 500+ mile events= about 1200 additional miles).

Your teams best alternative may be to do Traverse City then go to WI or Minn. TC is week 1 and MINN is end of the season. WI I think is week 4 or 5.
3 away events would be very strenuous on any team.