How much can one make coaching select volleyball?

[FrugalSaver]

I have a friend who knows someone who does this. Says the girls pay $5,000 per year to play each.

I would think little of that goes to the coach and this would be a tough way to make $40k or more per year.

Anyone have any insights here?

[avocado]

Can't speak re: volleyball, but I can make educated comments based on other sports.

I'm sure that part of that $5K/yr goes to overhead, how much I don't know at all. From what I've seen in other sports (swimming, soccer), the base salary tends to be decent, but what puts it over the top is that the position gives coaches an easy, established lead generation for private classes for the players themselves plus other kids in the area.

My high school swim club coach had an extremely high profile Olympic gold medalist under his tutelage. His swim club salary ($40K back in the late '80s) was nearly doubled by the 2+ hours/day in private classes. He negotiated that pool time be covered by the club.

There are a lot of different financial models on how to do youth sports for a living: semi-full time teaching + coaching, full time coaching + individual lessons, full time coaching + summer camps, part time (or full time, if you can get a position) community college + coaching + lessons or camps, etc.

[teacherwithamustache]

Parents and their money are easily parted when it comes to youth sports.  Volleyball is probably the easiest one to do this in let me show you the process.

5K a year includes uniform, tournaments, hotels, practice time, rental bus, and coach.  There is a 17U, 16u, 15u, and 13u team.   Each team has 8-10 girls on it.  So there is a 120K-160k a year revenue.  The cost are 15-20k per team, per year.  You take advantage of the parents desire for a college scholarship, along with the dad's inability to teach volleyball.  Most dad's are know it all's at heart.  They think they can coach (football, basketball, baseball, and softball).  However when volleyball is mentioned they do not have a clue so they have no problem forking over the money.

You hire a couple of former players to coach the lower level teams.  Or let a rich dad grow with the program.  You train them to be good coaches.  You only use the kids in your system for your best team.  You scale everything.  You as the figurehead make all the money.

You could even set yourself up as a nonprofit.  Yes private lessons are where you start the process at.

[kimmarg]

One of my coworkers coaches volleyball. It's the top tier Junior Olympic team from the area with a similar cost per year to play as mentioned above (3k-5k I think).... He takes it as a loss on his taxes. He gets paid but by the time he pays for travel to tournaments, etc it's not a money maker. They go to about 8 out of state tournaments a year which really chews up costs with hotel, sometimes flights, etc. The club fees go to his costs but also gym time, registration fees, uniforms, etc.

[dude]

Don't know about volleyball, but a friend of mine who is a successful college field hockey coach at a liberal arts school in New England told me she gets $75/hour for coaching clinics and the like.  Not too shabby.

[snogirl]

Not sure about select teams.  I was an assistant coach at a small liberal arts college for a couple of years & it paid a stipend of $1500....
Clinics and other engagements possibly may make you much better money.
I'm sure in larger areas it pays better. 
It is very time consuming, prep before & after practice, counseling, dry land before season starts, maintaining coaching credentials, traveling to game events, overnights, other required stuff, talking with parents, school administration.
I wasn't in it for the money, but the love of the sport & wanting to give back.
Did I say you had to talk with parents? 
That is difficult especially if their kids are not playing up to their parents' potential.