While the costs of the regular season are set as generally sharing the total cost of the association fees, tournament costs tend to be a lot more complicated. Quite often Senior students will find they have the option of attending two tournaments in a year.
In setting this policy for Senior Students, consideration must be made that the Proprietor sets $1250 per annum cost to the student already, a number of Senior students would attend the Missions trip which costs them around $3000 and there are a number of senior activities such as Balls, dinners, etc which all bare a cost of some sort.
1. Sometime at the beginning of Term 4, coaches and students of all Senior Teams must make a decision as to whether they intend to apply to attend National Tournament for the following year or not. (obviously mainly the Year 11/12 students would be canvassed)
2. Where only one tournament will be entered for the year, organisation will be made by Craig McDonald (TIC of Sport) with the team staying together, whether local or elsewhere and the costs handed on to the players a couple of months before tournament.
3. Where both winter and summer tournaments will be entered, one must be a local tournament where the team meets at school or the venue each day to eliminate accommodation and food costs, unless agreed upon by the whole team and their families to stay at an appropriate venue such as a house or school. This is merely so that the students still get the opportunity to attend their tournaments, but the financial costs are kept to a minimum.
4. There are other costs that must be borne by the students to attend tournament.
5. Each team must have a Manager and a Coach