How much does youth hockey cost in Louisiana?
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.
| Level | Estimated 12U season cost |
|---|---|
House C | $3,300 – $6,600 |
B | $3,900 – $8,000 |
A | $6,500 – $13,400 |
How the levels work here
Louisiana's ladder here is House, B and A. No Louisiana team is rated in our data, so those rows follow the national USA Hockey structure rather than divisions a Louisiana league actually runs. The three programs in our index sit one to a rung: Louisiana IceGators Youth at House, Mudbugs Youth Hockey at B and the Louisiana Jr. Drillers at A. SAHA's own travel leagues are the Southern Youth Travel Hockey League and the elite league it calls SESCL. We cannot see which divisions inside them a Louisiana club enters.
Where the money goes
A typical 12U A season in Louisiana, 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%
House in Louisiana runs 5% above the national average.
How does your season compare?
Add your own costs from last season, any club, any level, to get a full breakdown to budget this season.
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Hidden costs
- No Louisiana program publishes a registration fee we could retrieve, so a family cannot price a season before committing to it.
- Ask the registrar for the full season figure and for what the fee does not cover.
- SAHA counted 15 Louisiana members at 18U and 23 at 16U for 2024-25, so an older player may have no in-state cohort at their own age.
- Only two Louisiana cities have a program in our index: Lafayette with two and Shreveport with one.
- That leaves no second local club to move to if a fee or a schedule does not work.
- Louisiana is the only one of SAHA's six states with no rated teams in our data.
- Every rated SYTHL and SESCL team we do hold sits in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi or Tennessee.
Savings tips
- We hold no Louisiana assistance program whose amount and terms we could verify, so ask your association directly about aid and payment plans before assuming you pay full price.
- SAHA runs a development grant program for its member associations, and the 2025-26 round covers 8U initiatives, intermediate nets, goalie development, special needs, school and floor hockey visits, and SafeSport.
- Those grants are paid to clubs rather than to families, so the lever is asking your club whether it applied.
- The goalie grant gives a club two sets of quick-change pads and a try-goalie-for-free clinic.
- Applications are due October 1 and successful clubs are notified December 1, so raise it with your board before the fall.
- Compared at a common age of 10U, our estimates run $2,650-$5,000 for House, $3,150-$5,900 for B and $3,600-$7,150 for A.
Hockey in Louisiana
Your child's team will have a letter: House, B or A. That is the row to read in the table above. Those three rows follow the national USA Hockey structure, because no Louisiana team is rated in our data. The table is our estimate of a full season.
More about Louisiana hockey
Three Louisiana programs sit in our index, and none of them is in New Orleans or Baton Rouge. Louisiana IceGators Youth and the Louisiana Jr. Drillers are both in Lafayette, and Mudbugs Youth Hockey is in Shreveport. They are listed at House, A and B respectively, across 8U through 18U, with the Mudbugs starting at 6U. SAHA runs its own travel leagues, the Southern Youth Travel Hockey League and an elite league it calls SESCL. Between them they fielded 92 teams in 2024-25 and sent 10 teams to USA Hockey Nationals. We cannot say which of those divisions a Louisiana club enters.
Louisiana has no state affiliate of its own. It is governed by the Southern Amateur Hockey Association (SAHA), which USA Hockey charters to cover Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee inside the Southeastern District. SAHA's registrar counted 369 Louisiana members for 2024-25, and 190 of them were 19 and over. That leaves 179 in the youth bands: 23 at 6U, 24 at 8U, 30 at 10U, 40 at 12U, 24 at 14U, 23 at 16U and 15 at 18U. Thirty Louisiana members were female, 23 of them under 19. Twelve-and-under is the largest youth band in the state, at 40 registered members.
Hockey programs in Louisiana
Season cost estimates and family-reported costs for 2 programs.
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