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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like there a Mean Girls like lot brewing between big volleyball clubs in this area. When did it become so dramatic? My daughter did one of the lesser clubs and had a horrible experience. Tried a few more clinics and then got over it. I’m glad- what a toxic sport. I think the coaches are the ones that make it so.[/quote]

If you want the Ultimate Mean Girls Volleyball Experience go to a Mojo pre-tryout clinic and then the tryout. Mean Girls and Mean Girl Coaches make for meanest girls at tournaments, right down to intentionally unsportsmanlike behaviors during matches and tournaments. [/quote]

I think you will find mean girls and cliques pretty much everywhere. And I don't mean just every volleyball club, but pretty much every sport. You will always have the girls with crop tops, fake eyelashes, and weekly manicure sessions believing that they are superior to those dressed more modestly and braving the world with their natural eyelashes and without nail polish. Our team had one of those cliques with the "cool" girls being very obvious in their disdain of the others in the team. They would not even put their hands around the other players as they were going to the middle of the court to celebrate a point (the same attitude was visible in the team pictures). They were pretty insufferable, but hopefully they will change as they age. [/quote]
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Unfortunately, cliques and "mean girls" are part of the pre-teen and teenage girl experience. It's definitely not unique to volleyball. Over the course of my DD's club volleyball experience she's played for several clubs and every team has had varying degrees of drama - mostly minor, temporary things, but on one occasion a club director had to intervene and get parents involved. I think it's human nature for a larger group to self divide into smaller groups and sometimes that results in conflict. Some coaches are better at managing it than others. A coach (regardless of sport) should be reinforcing the idea that the individuals on a team don't need to be friends, but they do need to be good teammates. And they should be very clear about what being a good teammate means. Refusing to high five certain players or not touching them in a huddle (if that's the team culture) is not acceptable and a coach should correct that behavior.    [/quote]

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