rbaggs, I couldn't agree anymore. I currently get certified, take a physical and have background checks for my teachers license, to drive a school van, be a OHSAA wrestling coach, be a USA Wrestling Freestyle coach and now to be an ASA coach. There must be a way to consolidate these, it costs me several hundred dollars a year to coach!
There are expenses involved with most professions to maintain your credentialing.
Our School District has supplemental contracts that allows you to recoup some if not all of your expenses with extra curricular school involved activities like coaching, driving the bus etc. Our physicals are paid for with the wellness benefit package so, no out of pocket there and it is not a bad thing to do regularly anyhow.
There is much more potential for injury involved in Wrestling than Fastpitch so, I would expect yearly additional training cost travel expenses for training etc. Especially; coaching USA Freestyle $$$$.
The background check is something that should be consolidated since they use the same data base.
Unlike school involved activities most Club coaches have to pay out of pocket for these required areas (unless they figure in an extra $20 or so to the sanction/insurance fees onto the player fees that some organizations already do).
This is something that is not going to go away and like everything else will most likely get more expensive as time goes on.
Like Les said, if they make it mandatory at least ask for it. We played all ASA except for one and ASA State was the only tourney we played in where they asked for it.
