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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all so overwhelming as a new vb parent.

There are SO MANY clubs and SO MANY LEVELS of teams at the clubs!

How am I going to figure out which one my freshman kid should try out for?

She's never played club before. I have no aspirations for college/D1 - more just to enjoy playing and keep improving.

I tell her to ask the teammates on her school team which club to look at and they are all over the board - different clubs every year, etc.

She did a clinic of MoCo, I think, and one of Academy (we're in Maryland).

She made the varsity team at her school, but mostly I think because they needed a middle. She's not super tall either - maybe 5'8"?  She's learning a lot and loves it so much, but I feel kind of lost trying to think about the club tryouts. The rec director said to look at MVSA and Maryland Juniors, but from what I hear on this forum, MVSA is too competitive. And MoCo sounds intense and spendy.

Any and all advice would be appreciated. THanks! 
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If she's a new player and you live in MD -- you've got a lot of options.  For the clubs you mentioned all of them run 3 teams (MD Juniors usually runs 4-6) for U15.

Other clubs you might want to consider: MEVC, DMV Elite, Platform.

DMV Elite is the most expensive. MDJrs is next. [b]MEVC and Platform are usually a bit higher cost than MOCO[/b] and MVSA is the lowest cost. As for intensity, that's a personal preference.  There are definitely more intense clubs in the region, plus intensity varies by team level -- if you are playing with a lot of new players you can't run practices or clinics at the same speed as you can when everyone knows how to play well already.

An easier way to understand all of this is to look at teams by the level of competition.  For example, MDJrs has three general levels: Elite = travel, Open=some travel, some regional, Regional=mostly local.  They call their top team in each group Black, and their next team yellow. If there are multiple divisions in a tournament, then Black will play higher than yellow in most cases. For MEVC they call their top team National and their second team travel.

If you need more info, please start a new thread.  You definitely aren't the only one with these questions.[/quote]

Last season I compared the prices for MEVC, Platform, and MOCO and I was under the impression that MOCO was the more expensive among them, with MEVS and Platform charging about the same. I might be wrong though because each club may include some costs and hide others. [/quote]

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