Late night practice on school nights

[Anonymous]

As others have said, volleyball is an extracurricular activity and your DD can choose to do it or not. My own DD played for a club that had 7:30-9:30 or 8-10pm practices from 16s-18s two or three nights a week and it was not a problem for her. She was a very successful student that took many AP and honors classes and got excellent grades. She would usually get her work finished before practice only occasionally having to stay up late after practice to do homework. That said, if volleyball is not a passion for your DD and the intent is just another activity for college applications it might not be worth it, particularly if time management is an issue.

For me, I preferred the later practices over the 5:30 or 6:00 practices she had in her younger years which were hard to manage with two working parents.