I know that our club offers scholarships for wrestlers meeting certain qualifications. It is the opinion of the club that no kid should be denied the chance to participate due to financial constraints. We also have a lot of donated gear (shoes, headgear, etc.) which we gladly lend out. In fact at the start of the year, the coaches tell all of the beginning parents not to go right out and buy 60-130$ shoes because there are usually several pairs at the start of the year that the club has to lend out.
Of course I am talking about a very large club with over 109 carded kids in the club so far and I do know that smaller clubs probably dont have the financial means to offer scholarships and what not like we do, but that is a possibility for different clubs to look into as the costs continually go up and the burden becomes more and more taxing on the parents.
Recently in the Wichita Eagle they had an article on the cost of the various kids sports. Not once was wrestling mentioned in this article, but I have to believe that wrestling should have been mentioned in this article. I believe the article was mentioned before in these forums.
Below is the link to both the forum discussion about it and the article itself.
http://www.usawks.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=003528#000000 http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/12119632.htm
