The first consideration when buying trophies online is time! We usually don’t know how many awards we will need until late in a season. And of course we have no idea who the winners will be. While many schools hand out generic awards we prefer to plan a bit and give our winners and participants a trophy with their name and the name of our school along with their achievement engraved on the trophy plate. A quality online trophy company will always include this custom engraving free of charge.
The two major advantages to buying trophies online are price and variety. I buy from AmeriTrophy and they have a huge assortment of figures, sizes and colors for every sport. For baseball trophies I like first, second, and third place finish awards with a single oval column on a marble base. These cost only around $10.00 each with the price including shipping. A smaller version of the trophy is available at a very low price. Cheap trophies are used primarily as participation awards. I usually choose the traditional gold swinging batter figure on these trophies and because our school has girls’ softball I can easily choose a female figure.