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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about just HS + club team?[/quote]

Don’t do this.  As others said, there is a painful shortages of coaches and the pay doesn’t match the hours.  It’s right after tryouts and some parents are upset.  We understand, but this isn’t the way to go about it.

It’s the same as if you want to start a list of which teachers tutor, but to badmouth it.

HS and club are at different times. It’s a second job. [/quote]
While I agree that there shouldn't be names given and letting this cool down a bit is good idea, I'm not sure that the reason for that is "there's not enough coaches".  And the fact that club coaching is a second job doesn't mean you can say any action taken at Job A is ok because Job B is separate.

Many other state and local athletic associations around the country have explicit rules in place to stop large conflicts of interests from happening.  Inside CHRVA Delaware has explicit rules that no more than 5 returning HS volleyball players can be instructed by a coach.  Read section 9.0 of the code at [url]https://regulations.delaware.gov/AdminCode/title14/1040[/url]. Those rules are in place to protect both the athlete and the coach. That rule isn't that you can't have more than 5 on your personal team -- its that you can't instruct more than 5 over the course of the offseason. This effectively prohibits high schools and clubs from becoming intertwined. The DC area is actually the outlier with regards to regulation here.  Other more developed volleyball regions have had to deal directly with these type of conflict of interest issues long ago.

There are many examples of HS players in the DC metro area in both public and private schools being told by coaches that if they try out for a specific club don't bother coming back. Some coaches will send out lists of clubs to consider trying out for and leave off clubs that are directly competitive to and sometimes even better than the club they work at. Some will even ask player's teammates who they are trying out for with the intent of getting the teammate to stop them from doing it. Coaches will even ask players to go to a club clinic and report back on who was there.

The inverse of this happens as well.  Good player comes into 9th grade at a good HS volleyball program. Coach already knows and/or coached an 8th grader at club. The club player they know sometimes gets preference over the one that doesn't play for them.

If you are a 14-17 year old girl who wants to play HS volleyball and your coach does something like that how would you react? You have no power in that situation. The coach controls your HS roster spot. What if you go to the AD or school administration and they look the other way because "We don't have another option for a coach." or because "We are winning"?.  Neither excuses the behavior.[/quote]

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