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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No matter what both Metro and paramount have strong programs. VA Elite definitely is going downhill. Their training is such a waste of time. [/quote]

I was going to say the same thing re VA Elite. Watched some of their teams play at tourneys last club season and was not particularly impressed (U15 and U16 specifically). We saw several supposedly lower tiered clubs giving them quite a run and winning multiple sets (Mojo, VaVa and DMV). [/quote]

VAE is bad, with the exception of their rising 18s team. They routinely lost or were challenged by clubs that would be considered low tier in the CHRVA pecking order. Paramount’s 2nd teams in the 13s and 14s age groups wiped the floor with them. MOJO is now pretty much the same tier as VAE. [/quote]

They’ve lost quite a few of their best coaches in the past year or two. There isn’t much below this year’s rising 18s and competition for talent is much greater. [/quote]

Their recruiting seems to be more focused on high academic D3 schools. Some pretty impressive schools there - is that their niche now?[/quote]
The VAE rising 18s have some solid D1 commitments - JMU, UNH, W&M, and Lafayette. I think more broadly there are some good volleyball programs at high academic D3s (MIT, Emory, Wesleyan, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Wash U St Louis, U Chicago, and many others) and these schools are going after players that could maybe play at smaller D1s and leveraging the admissions advantage of being a recruited volleyball player as their carrot. [/quote]

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