$1000.00 for the year? By the time the club fees are paid, camps, clinics, equipment, tournament fees, travel costs, hotel fees, tee shirts and whatever else gets paid for along the way. It is "easily" $3000-$4000 a year spent to play.
If you are going to have your child play, you will need to pay for equipment with any club; so, that is a fixed cost of playing.
You, as a parent, can decide which camps and clinics you can and cannot afford to attend.
As for tournaments, since the schedules are not known, we cannot see that you can assume massive hotel/lodging bills as yet. If you do have large bills at this age, we certainly can have a lively debate on that point - and that would apply for any club.
Let's start with what we know right now. How much did your equipment and training payments (registration fees) cost thus far? How much are parents paying to get "set-up"? You should be inside that $1000.00 number thus far, no?
