Volleyball Clubs Still Looking for U16-U17?
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| Adding MOJO make up tryouts, looking for 16s and 17s, mostly likely on their pink regional teams, maybes spot out two on national, interesting…they are free! |
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Free? The website says $80 and that’s what we recently paid. Where do you see free? |
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This club told my DD, two years a row, that she was the first alternate on their list and that as long as someone declined an offer she would be getting a call for an offer. Both Fairfax and the one that is in PWC (Kids Choice). Yet then both years they had additional try outs the next week which made no sense. If there was still room on their roster why hadn't my player gotten that follow up offer as promised? When confronted metro admitted that their roster was full. I went on to hear from a Mojo coach that I knew personally that it is common to tell a player that they're first on your alternate list and then ghost them because either you don't want to hurt their feelings in person or you didn't really watch them at try outs so don't have anything else to say. |
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Another poster shared this page last week ... Free Agents page (hosted by VAE):
https://www.vaelite.com/free-agents It would be great if some folks can share some success stories using this resource. |
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Oh I could written this word for word with metro south - last year PW this year FFX. |
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| Wow that’s shady about Metro. I was just sharing the info they had emailed. I guess I’m on their distribution list bc DD attended one of their clinics. |
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Copy and pasting an Email from today:
MOJO is hosting a free tryout tomorrow to anyone still looking for a club team this season. We are looking for the following positions: 16s: OH, Opp, & Utility 17s: OH, Opp, Middle, Utility Please register online so we have the necessary information (CHRVA & contact information) REGISTER HERE Redeemer Lutheran Church 1545 Chain Bridge Road McLean, VA 22101 700-900pm |
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| Curious if anyone has actually picked up a club placement from these last min makeup tryouts? |
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| Maryland Juniors instagram says they're looking for particular positions for several teams. The fact they list teams and positions needed would suggest this isn't a ploy to get more people to pay their tryout fee, but rather an actual need. |
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+1 They aren’t a new club and they know how this works. It’s unlikely they are attempting a money grab here if they are confident that all teams are full. Vienna Elite used to have their own facility and they lost that during Covid shutdown and then over-promised new facility, etc. It seems like those upper years that were normally a powerhouse for them are a bit unpredictable at the moment because those who were with them on the lower teams U11-U14 during Covid scattered after the instability of the on-again/off-again facility thing. So the loyalty they used to cultivate isn’t there and they found it difficult to retain top players. They do just fine and have a good enough reputation to still be a force, but I believe they would not offer additional clinics if they didn’t still have openings in those age brackets. |
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What is “utility”? Sorry haven’t heard this term used before. Does it just mean general play-anywhere position? |
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On the surface this seems nice for VAE to “host” a page like this. But it also strikes me that this is the carnage that VAE leaves behind with their practice of absolutely no loyalty to former team members. They are happy to lure skilled players away from a club but then leave them club-less the next year and replace them with a taller player with zero experience the following year. It also strikes me that the ECP/Renaissance/Mojo shuffle of past season left many former mojo players (U15 and U16) on this list scrambling to find a place to play volleyball. It’s really too bad. |
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Honestly though this seems like a total mojo-move. It tracks with their culture/communication style. |