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[quote=Anonymous]I live across the country in an area that is having the same girls' volleyball boom as seemingly everywhere else. I've followed the recent volleyball threads with a lot of interest because I have friends with girls older than mine who have been on the volleyball tryout roller coaster with very mixed results.

I grew up in a midwestern state where volleyball was big, but it was MS/HS teams only and only 1-2 girls per school made it to a club team and they were D1 recruits from day 1. I loved volleyball, but it had zero cachet and aside from kids I knew from CA, no one was scheming to make the team starting in 4th grade.

I've heard for years that the majority of teen girls stop playing organized sports by age 13. So where are all these teenage girls who are aspiring to play club volleyball coming from? Are they coming from other sports, and if so, what sports are losing such vast quantities of athletes that they're fueling the volleyball boom? For example, are these girls who would have been cut from small roster sports like basketball 30 years ago and are finding longevity in volleyball instead? Or are they girls who would have stepped away from sports altogether after elementary school but are finding their fit in volleyball?[/quote]

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