How did your athletic department budget change from the prior year?
minus 2% or more
booster club was collecting the gate receipts and using the revenue to pay for awards and other things that couldn’t be justified in the sports department’s budget.
little or no change
Bringing the department’s bud- get back to $40,000 was a modest but helpful turnaround for a school with 15 sports and 27 teams. Com- bine that with cost reductions and fundraising efforts and he’s able to put together a budget of nearly $200,000 each year. “We’ve done a good job at fool-
plus 2% or more
From 2011-12 to 2012-13 From 2010-11 to 2011-12
0 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% SOURCE: COACH AND ATHLETIC DIRECTOR OCT. 2012 SURVEY
A recent survey by Coach And Athletic Director of 629 readers found that budgets began to stabilize more during the 2012-13 school year, as opposed to 2011-12 when nearly 40 percent of respondents reported significant cuts.
How has athletic participation changed in the last year? 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0
plus 2% or more
little or no change
minus 2% or more
Participation in high school sports is at an all-time high, with more than 7.7 million students putting on a uniform during the 2011-12 school year. Coach And Athletic Director’s survey found only 10 percent of respondents had declining participation at their schools.
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ing the students (about our finan- cial situation),” Quatromoni says. “We’re not on regular uniform cy- cles. We’re relying heavily on dona- tions, and things I should be doing and changes I should be making, I’m not. We’re just plugging one hole at a time, and it’s frustrating. We’re just trying to stay afloat.”
Expanding Revenue Opportunities
Cutting expenses can only go so
far. To keep their athletic programs up and running many schools ex- amine two opportunities: fundrais- ing and pay-to-play.
Quatromoni fought the school board on user fees, but that was before he learned it would entirely eliminate his budget. The school now charges $250 for the first sport, $175 for the second and $150 for the third. There is a $25 surcharge for football and hockey. A Coach And Athletic Director survey of 629 readers found that participation is up at least 2 per- cent in 44 percent of schools this year. Only 10 percent are on the decline, illustrating how student in- volvement is growing and placing a heavier burden on finances, es- pecially for departments that don’t charge user fees.
Quatromoni refuses to let money stand in the way of a student’s par- ticipation. He maintains a waiver list of students who can’t pay, and this year he instituted a “sponsor a student-athlete” program. The ini-
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