How Much Does Youth Basketball Cost in Regina?

Sports pricing is usually vague on purpose. "Contact us for rates" is a sentence designed to get you on the phone. We would rather you saw the numbers now and decided in your own kitchen.

Here is what basketball at HoopLife in Regina costs, what each price includes, and where the money actually goes.

The full price list

League

• HoopLife League — $450 per player per season. Ten weeks, one night a week. Each night is 30 minutes of on-court training, real games, and a Confidence, Leadership & Basketball IQ workshop with their coach. Grades 1-4 play 3x3, grades 5 and up play officiated full-court 5v5 with referees and scorekeepers. Payment plans on request.
• Adult Co-Ed 3x3 League — $600 a team, or $150 to sign up on your own. Ages 16 and up, ten weeks of Sunday evenings.

Young Stars, ages 3-6

• Ages 3-4 — $150 for a 10-week term. 30 minutes a week, mini hoops, a parent on the court.
• Ages 5-6 — $250 for a 10-week term. A full hour a week.

Camps

• Break camps — $185 for three days. February break, Easter and Christmas.
• Summer camp — $350 a week. Full days, all summer.

Weekly training and open gym

• Rookie membership — $450 a quarter, 12 training credits given up front, plus unlimited open gym and 10% off camps.
• The Pro membership — $650 a quarter, 24 credits, unlimited open gym and 15% off camps.
• Family Pack — $650 one time, 20 credits, shareable across a whole family and good for a full year.
• Open gym — $10 to drop in, or free with any membership.

A credit books any weekly session: Skills Training, Girls Only or 3x3.

What that works out to per hour

The sticker price is the wrong number to compare. Work out the hourly cost instead:

• A league season is ten nights of 90 minutes to two hours. At $450, that is roughly $23 to $25 an hour of coached, officiated basketball.
• A Rookie membership at $450 a quarter is 12 coached hours plus unlimited open gym — under $38 an hour before the open gym is counted at all, and a lot less once it is.
• Summer camp at $350 is a full week of days. Per hour, it is the cheapest thing we sell, which is why it fills first.

Compare that to a private one-on-one coach anywhere in the city and the picture changes quickly.

Where the money goes

We own our building. The HoopLife Centre is a full-size regulation hardwood court with six adjustable hoops, shot clocks on both ends and a premium scoreboard, plus a turf room and a lounge with a window onto the court. That is unusual for youth sport in this province, where most programs rent school gyms by the hour and lose their booking whenever the school needs it back.

Owning it is why sessions run every week of the year including summer, why nothing gets bumped, and why the hoops actually lower for the little kids. It is also most of what your fee pays for, along with the coaches on the floor.

If the price is the problem

Please tell us instead of quietly not signing up. There are three routes:

1. BOOST Kids. A local business sponsors a child's full year at HoopLife — a year-long membership, school support and mentorship from our coaches. It costs the family nothing. Anyone can apply, any time of year. Nobody in the gym knows which kids are BOOST Kids unless the family says so.
2. Payment plans. Available on the league on request. Ask at the front desk.
3. The Family Pack. If you have two or three kids, 20 shareable credits for $650 is usually the cheapest way to keep all of them playing.

We have never wanted the cost of a season to be the reason a kid in this city misses out.

The cheapest way to find out if it is worth it

$10. The Get Started package is a development planning meeting with a HoopLife Director plus a first training session. If it turns out basketball is not your child's thing, you have spent ten dollars finding out.