Metro has finalized their 25/26 rosters

[Anonymous]

How do you find this information? Advanced Event Systems seems so user unfriendly. I was wondering if one can find all the tournaments a team signed up for. Or: can I find all the tournaments a team played during a previous season?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you find this information? Advanced Event Systems seems so user unfriendly. I was wondering if one can find all the tournaments a team signed up for. Or: can I find all the tournaments a team played during a previous season?

Many CHRVA tournaments are in AES - there isn't a way right now to choose a team and see all the events managed in AES that a team has registered for, however once tournaments start and teams get a ranking for this season you will be able to click on that team (from the AES rankings - not the USAV rankings) and see any AES tournaments they have competed in or registered for. Even this will not be completely accurate as it will show tournaments that the team registered for regardless of whether they were Accepted, Dropped, Waitlisted or whatever.

For now, you can browse events (choose Events-> More Filters and then USAV and Chesapeake region) and then choose a tournament and see what teams are registered. For example there is a MDJRs tournament on January 3 and you can see all the teams that registered and their current status.

The other platform that's used for some tournaments that many CHRVA teams go to is SportWrench (https://sportwrench.com/) In SportWrench the easiest way to find a tournament is to search for it by name and then see what teams are registered (if the tournament has made them available). Some of the tournaments that use SportWrench include Volley by the James in Richmond, Capitol Hill Classic, and the National Harbor Showdown. Right now you can see which teams are registered for Volley by the James, but not Capitol Hill Classic - they usually enable viewing registered teams closer to the tournament.

There are other platforms used in other regions that you might see, but AES and SportWrench should get most of the tournaments that CHRVA teams play in.

As far as what local tournaments Metro Travel teams attend, they generally will only play in one smaller regional tournament plus Capitol Hill (which is a CHRVA tournament) which satisfies the requirements to qualify for bid regionals. My sense is that they try to get in a regional tournament as early as possible, so they register for the first few CHRVA tournaments with an Open division in January and then attend the one that they get accepted that works best with the rest of the team's schedule. They seem to try to get it out of the way before the first bigger tournament on MLK weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you find this information? Advanced Event Systems seems so user unfriendly. I was wondering if one can find all the tournaments a team signed up for. Or: can I find all the tournaments a team played during a previous season?

Try the Volleyball Hub app. It pushes AES data through and it’s very user friendly. You’d need to go to SportWrench for other tournaments.

[Anonymous]

Weird that the rosters aren’t up yet.

[Anonymous]

This is a backwards way to see the rosters, but I stumbled onto it today. If you go to https://www.431sports.com/playerpass and search by club you can see all of the teams listed. Click on the teams, and you can see player name and first initial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a backwards way to see the rosters, but I stumbled onto it today. If you go to https://www.431sports.com/playerpass and search by club you can see all of the teams listed. Click on the teams, and you can see player name and first initial.

It took me a minute to figure out how to see the teams, but you're right it does work. FYI it only shows you the 1st 10 players rostered. I looked at a couple of teams that I know have more than 10 players but you can only see 10, it doesn't scroll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man, I feel for the Metro teams that compete at MdJrs this coming season. Been a Metro parent for 4 years and MDJrs owner & longtime tournament staff already detest Metro, plus they often arrange the pools to benefit MDJrs teams and disadvantage Metro (I.e. in a regional tournament, having Metro 2s play against another club’s travel/1s team, while MDJrs teams somehow only play any 1s in final stages of tournament, if at all.

If Metro creating the National team further drained from MDJrs, who knows what shenanigans Metro teams will face this spring.

The metro vs mdjrs hatred is nothing compared to what paramount will do if one of their players leaves to go to another club. Just ask a parent of the former paramount 17s team- every single player left that team and went to vajrs or metro.

All you parent’s considering the move to paramount should really talk to those that have been there and left.

[Anonymous]

Why not just tell us what you think they would say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh man, I feel for the Metro teams that compete at MdJrs this coming season. Been a Metro parent for 4 years and MDJrs owner & longtime tournament staff already detest Metro, plus they often arrange the pools to benefit MDJrs teams and disadvantage Metro (I.e. in a regional tournament, having Metro 2s play against another club’s travel/1s team, while MDJrs teams somehow only play any 1s in final stages of tournament, if at all.

If Metro creating the National team further drained from MDJrs, who knows what shenanigans Metro teams will face this spring.

The metro vs mdjrs hatred is nothing compared to what paramount will do if one of their players leaves to go to another club. Just ask a parent of the former paramount 17s team- every single player left that team and went to vajrs or metro.

All you parent’s considering the move to paramount should really talk to those that have been there and left.

I checked the rosters. From last year’s Paramount 17 team, only one player remains on Paramount 18, two players are now on VA Juniors 18, and six players are on Metro 18 Travel. Not sure about the remaining few. What happened?

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Anonymous wrote:I checked the rosters. From last year’s Paramount 17 team, only one player remains on Paramount 18, two players are now on VA Juniors 18, and six players are on Metro 18 Travel. Not sure about the remaining few. What happened?

Hmm this is odd.
1) where did all of Metro’s rising 18s disperse to? I count 7 returning players on that squad rising from 17s.

2) This board usually accuses Paramount of grabbing players for 1 year, but it feels like this is what happened with Metro Travel 18s this year, and they just took Paramount players. Seriously where did Metro’s 17 players from last year go to?

3) I see 16 players on Metro 18 Travel, which feels insane. All of their Travel teams seem quite large. Not sure how to feel about that.

4) generally speaking, Metro seems to have had more consistency with recruiting successes. Paramount, VA Jrs, VA Elite, they all put up 1-3 studs per year, with then several others landing at low to mid schools from all vantages. I guess maybe one can surmise if kids at 18s level don’t have offers yet, maybe switching a club is a last ditch effort to see if they can make something happen. Who knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I checked the rosters. From last year’s Paramount 17 team, only one player remains on Paramount 18, two players are now on VA Juniors 18, and six players are on Metro 18 Travel. Not sure about the remaining few. What happened?

Hmm this is odd.
1) where did all of Metro’s rising 18s disperse to? I count 7 returning players on that squad rising from 17s.

2) This board usually accuses Paramount of grabbing players for 1 year, but it feels like this is what happened with Metro Travel 18s this year, and they just took Paramount players. Seriously where did Metro’s 17 players from last year go to?

3) I see 16 players on Metro 18 Travel, which feels insane. All of their Travel teams seem quite large. Not sure how to feel about that.

4) generally speaking, Metro seems to have had more consistency with recruiting successes. Paramount, VA Jrs, VA Elite, they all put up 1-3 studs per year, with then several others landing at low to mid schools from all vantages. I guess maybe one can surmise if kids at 18s level don’t have offers yet, maybe switching a club is a last ditch effort to see if they can make something happen. Who knows.

Last year's Metro 17s has many more players leaving early for college than in prior years, which is a growing trend for all of collegiate volleyball. My understanding is that 6 players from last year's 17s are going to college early, one player was playing up a year and decided to play another season with Metro 17 Travel (it's a longer, more spread out season), and one player decided not to play 18s. With 7 returning to play on 18 Travel, that accounts for the whole team, meaning none opted to play for another club. It did create a lot of openings for players from other clubs compared to last year's 18 Travel which only picked up one player who hadn't played for Metro in the prior season.

The 16 players thing isn't great for sure, but by 18s injuries are a lot more common and it's likely that all healthy players will be able to at least be on the roster for most tournaments. That said, even 15 is too many and 3-4 players probably won't get a ton of playing time in many tournaments.

An interesting thing to me is that this iteration of 18 Travel won't be nearly as tall as prior seasons. Last year's Metro 18 Travel had 9 players who were legitimately taller than 6 feet and several more who were close and rounded up, but I don't think this season's team has anything close to that many. There are plenty of highly successful teams that are not crazy tall that tend to be quick with excellent ball control - whether Metro can succeed in pulling that kind of team together remains to be seen.