Volleyball invites, cross country meets, playoff Fridays — the season runs on road miles. Here's the one-van playbook for teams and booster clubs.
Fall sports season is officially rolling — and with it, the weekly puzzle every coach and team parent knows: getting twelve kids, four equipment bags, and two coaches to a gym ninety minutes away by 7:30 on a Saturday morning.
Volleyball invites in La Crosse. Cross country meets in Eau Claire. Soccer in Wisconsin Rapids, and — if the season goes right — playoff Fridays somewhere you didn't plan for. The parent caravan technically works. One van works better.
Our 15-passenger van ($135/day + $0.10/mile) puts the whole roster, the gear, and the coaching staff in one vehicle. That means one departure time instead of six, no "where's the silver Equinox" texts from the highway, and a team that walks into the gym together, warmed up on the same music and the same pre-game talk.
It also concentrates the driving: one experienced adult behind the wheel instead of a string of separate cars making the same dark 6 AM run down I-94.
One of the first reviews we ever got was from a volleyball family who took the 15-passenger van to a weekend tournament — and a wrestling family once picked one up on short notice when state-tournament plans fell through. Fall or winter, this is what the big van is for.
A one-day volleyball invite in La Crosse: $135 for the van plus roughly $11 of mileage — about $12 per player split twelve ways, before fuel. Compare that to five parents each burning a tank and a Saturday. For two-day tournaments, the second van day usually still beats the caravan's combined fuel bill.
Booster clubs: a weekend van is a concrete, easy line item to fund — and rentals of 7+ days (think: tournament week plus practices) include unlimited mileage at $750/week.
A golf foursome, a doubles tennis crew, or a relay team travels fine in the 7-passenger minivan ($78/day + $0.10/mile) — still room for the bags, still one vehicle. And when it's grandparents following the team to a sectional, a full-size car ($65/day) gets the fan section there too.
There's one 15-passenger van, and fall Saturdays stack team travel on top of festival weekends and color-season trips. The winning pattern all season: schedule comes out, coach or team parent calls Monday, van's locked by Tuesday.
Call or text 715-396-1466 with the date and destination. The driver just needs the standard three documents — license, card, proof of insurance — and pickup at our Highway 54 lot takes minutes.
Yes — one licensed adult driver with the standard rental documents. Coaches and team parents do it every season.
One departure, one arrival, the whole roster together — and one experienced driver instead of six cars on an early-morning highway.
A La Crosse day trip runs about $146 total — roughly $12 per player split twelve ways, before fuel.
Monday or Tuesday for a Saturday event. There's one 15-passenger van — first call gets it.
The same keep-the-group-together logic, applied to reunions.
The right size for smaller squads and shorter rosters.
The three documents the designated driver brings to pickup.
Lock in the team van before this weekend's schedule does it for you.
Call 715-396-1466