How much does youth hockey cost in Indiana?

2026-2027 season estimates • Updated October 2026 • Built from published program fees and family reports

All-in season cost by level

This is the full season, not just registration. Ice, travel, tournaments, and equipment usually add up to more than the sign-up fee.

LevelEstimated 12U season cost
House
C
$3,300 – $6,600
B
$3,900 – $8,000
B1
$5,600 – $11,200
A
A1
$6,500 – $13,400
AA
$7,900 – $15,400
AAA
$14,000 – $27,100

How the levels work here

The rows here are letters, but Indiana's leagues label things differently. BTHL splits A into Gold, Silver and Bronze flights. LCAHL's Howe and Yzerman are seeding flights inside a level rather than levels of their own. CSDHL uses Red, White and Blue, and NWHL uses Squirts, Peewees and Bantams. A1 is one club, the Evansville Thunder's 12U and 14U SYTHL teams. AAA is Indiana Elite and the Tri-State Spartans in national leagues, plus Culver Academies, which is a boarding school and charges tuition rather than a season fee.

Where the money goes

A typical 12U A season in Indiana, about $9,900. Follows the age picked above.

Assumes 3 tournaments, each a 2 to 6 hour drive with 2 hotel nights, two parents and a sibling travelling.

  • Tournament travel$3,52036%
  • Registration$2,90029%
  • Development$1,20012%
  • Local travel$8008%
Estimated from published Indiana program fees and family reports

House in Indiana runs 5% above the national average.

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Hidden costs

  • Indiana's highest-rated team in our data is at Culver Academies, a boarding school whose 2026-27 tuition, room and board is $69,500, so its hockey arrives as a school bill rather than a season fee.
  • The ladder thins hard with age: our data holds 25 rated teams at 12U and 20 at 14U, but 7 at 16U and 3 at 18U.
  • From 15U up the only rated Indiana clubs left are Indiana Elite, the Tri-State Spartans, Indy Jr. Fuel, the Midwest Blackbirds, the Fort Wayne Force and Culver Academies, so half the state's clubs field nothing at those ages.
  • Girls hockey is thinner still: 6 of the 98 rated Indiana teams are girls teams, spread across Culver Academies, Indiana Elite, Indy Jr. Fuel, the South Bend Irish Rovers and the Fort Wayne Force.
  • Tournament travel is close to a third of our travel-level estimates, $3,168 of the 12U AA figure and $7,093 of the 14U AAA figure.

Savings tips

  • Evansville Youth Hockey Association runs the Joseph Vaal Scholarship, a yearly $1,000 award open to both travel and house league participants, which may be divided among applicants and is paid directly to EYHA on the player's behalf.
  • In Monroe County, the Bloomington Parks Foundation scholarship covers City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation programs at up to $500 per child per calendar year, requires proof of county residency, and closes two weeks before the program start date.
  • Indianapolis-area families have four rated clubs to compare before tryouts, Indy Jr. Fuel and Indiana Elite in Fishers and the Tri-State Spartans and South Indy Sharks in Indianapolis.
  • Fort Wayne, South Bend, Evansville, Columbus, Bloomington and Hammond each hold one rated club in our data, so the choice there is between levels rather than between clubs.
  • Ask your association's registrar about assistance and payment plans before assuming you pay full price.
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Hockey in Indiana

Your child's team will have a letter: House, B, A, AA or AAA. That letter is the row to read in the table above. Indiana's leagues label things differently, so match the letter, not the flight name. Our data holds 98 rated Indiana teams across 12 clubs, and 51 of those teams play in leagues run out of Ohio, Michigan or Illinois. The table is our estimate of a full season.

More about Indiana hockey

Central and southern Indiana plays the BTHL, the same regional league that carries Ohio's A and AA teams, at 10U, 12U and 14U. Those clubs are Indy Jr. Fuel in Fishers, the South Indy Sharks in Indianapolis, the Columbus Flames, the Bloomington Blades and the Evansville Thunder. A splits into Gold, Silver and Bronze flights there, with AA above them. The Fort Wayne Force and the South Bend Irish Rovers play 9U through 14U in the LCAHL, the Little Caesars Amateur Hockey League out of Michigan. In northwest Indiana the Hammond Mohawks and the Midwest Blackbirds in Dyer play the two Illinois circuits, the CSDHL and the NWHL (Northwest Hockey League). AAA is two clubs. Indiana Elite in Fishers plays the T1EHL (Tier 1 Elite Hockey League, a national circuit) at 11U through 13U and the NAT1HL at 14U through 18U. The Tri-State Spartans in Indianapolis play the NAT1HL from 14U to 16U. The Evansville Thunder's 12U and 14U A1 teams are the state's only SYTHL entries.

Indiana sits in the Mid-American Hockey Association (Mid-Am), the USA Hockey affiliate that also covers Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.

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