well, i just found out after finalizing my schedule and getting the approval from our AD, no issues were told to me earlier, that our principal says we can't travel to a certain game. Our region only has 3 girls teams and the boys are full; the girls will play 13 games and boys 16 if i lose these games. I don't know if any other sports are feeling the crunch as i have not heard any other coaches saying they lost games or meets; it is hard enough getting games for just girls and make up the difference...i just hope we my AD and principal are willing to help us out...
For fundraising-we sold spirit bands; you make 50% comission; the bands are $1 to buy and you sell them for $2; we also do a soccer marathon-similar to march of dimes, asking people to donate or pledge money and the teams play for 4 hours one night or day. Where i played and coached in Illinois we did this and we could raise a good chunk of change for all our stuff...it was easy and you are not putting forth money to do it.
