Budget Activity

     In class, my group and I were given a task to make a budget for a high school’s athletic teams. We needed to incorporate each and every individual thing/supply that all the teams needed to continue on with their sport. We added all the expenses for each sport together and came up with a total of 195,350 dollars. In order to incorporate all sports and their expenses, a few sports had to either be dropped from the budget or had to “pay to play”. My group and I viewed the ranks for each individual sport and took action from there. We realized that football came in the last rank in their conference and cheerleading didn’t even have a rank. There simply wouldn’t have been enough money to incorporate all sports in the budget so football and cheerleading had to pay to play. We chose football to pay to play because there are 75 players so having each player pay would help with the cost. Each football player would pay 500 dollars which covers their expenses for the new tackling dummies, the new helmets, as well as the miscellaneous expenses. Having each player pay 500 dollars would total out to be 37,500 dollars. We chose cheerleading to “pay to play” because there’s only 16 members and we feel as though cheerleading is the least favorite sport. My group and I decided that each cheerleader would pay 250 dollars to participate in this sport. This fee includes the new pom poms, the trip to Hawaii for the championships and a few other miscellaneous expenses. Having the 16 individuals pay the fee, it will total out to 4,000 dollars. Finally we decided that we were going to have fundraisers for men and women’s track and field, men and women’s swimming, and lastly football.  Making fundraisers for these sports shall be a fun experience and importantly, raise money for each individual sport. 

Angel Akinkuoye

James Flynn

Dylan True