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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone with first hand experience with either Paramount and/or Metro Travel speak to the culture, coaching, and college recruiting? We have moved from out of state and had been told to look at those two clubs specifically. [/quote]

If you moved from out of state and were a very good player from a good region, then looking at them makes sense.  Unless you are already being recruited by either of them, you should look at more than those 2 clubs.  If you are at the younger ages, there are some very good clubs in the region that can be better at developing players.  If you are at the older ages (recruiting age) then you should definitely check out the thread on the benefits of metro travel where CHRVA recruiting is discussed and look at 1-2 more clubs on that list.

The Metro Travel culture can be challenging, highly competitive, rewarding and sometimes adversarial. Don't expect a team bonding experience because in many cases players are directly competing against each other. Since they take 15 players on rosters, playing time can be very hard to come by. When you win matches, everything is generally OK, at least for the starters. But if you start losing the team dynamic can get bad sometimes, and gets worse if a starter loses their position to a perceived backup. This extends to the parents sometimes as well. Some of the parents are there more for their DD than the team, and when their DD starts to slip in playing time the vibe can get negative quickly because emotions are heightened when college recruiting is on the line.  But if your DD thrives in an environment where you have to fight for your spot every day, then Metro definitely gives you that. You will be playing with some of the best players in the region.

The coaching depends heavily on the team you are playing for. A few of the teams are led by coaches that are very good at both individual development and team coaching and playing for those coaches was great. There are a some teams where the coaches did little to help advance either the teams overall level of play or our DD skills and we had to supplement with outside coaching on those teams. At those ages, we watched some players at other clubs advance quicker than the players on our teams were. Some of those faster advancing players ended up taking spots away from returning Metro players the next year.

The recruiting is good in that you will get attention if you do your work. Colleges know that Metro wants their athletes to go D1, so you will get attention if you can make it on a U16+ team. There are some very good Metro Travel players that are on very good college D1 teams now. But don't assume that playing for Metro Travel means you get a scholarship at a D1 school, even if you get an offer to play for one.[/quote]

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