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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

DP and please elaborate. My daughter went to a pre tryout and liked it.  She’s registered for tryouts.  Other than the price being much higher than any other club, what do you mean? [/quote]

Not the PP, but we have seen the same cliquey mean girl crap with certain Mojo teams and coaches. I have personally seen unsportsmanlike behavior from some of their players and coaches. At one tournament, the Mojo girls were not taking their turn at scoring seriously - mocking the opposing teams (pointing and laughing at players making mistakes or errors, eating, checking phones) and worst of all missing score keeping points in the process.  When the coach of one playing team, as well as parents, pointed out the several-point errors in their scoring, instead of apologizing and fixing it and taking it more seriously the Mojo girls continued to more dramatically eat/check phones, point, sneer and smirk at the parents and other coaches and continued their mocking and laughing about it. Even worse, at one point the Mojo coach joined in laughing with them and apparently thought it was funny that the playing teams coaches were upset by this.

It was very unprofessional. To the contrary, my DD’s team was taught by coaches to take line judging and score keeping very seriously- a job. They don’t eat, don’t use phones, certainly don’t giggle and mock the teams/players on the court. They act professionally and make sure things are accurate. If their coach saw them behaving any differently those girls would be sitting out the next match.

My daughter will not try out for Mojo bc of this. Some of the Mojo players also acted similarly off the court during HS season. Showboating to losing team, sneering, etc.

We have seen teams like paramount and metro travel crush lower ranked teams and they never ever act so unprofessionally toward their opponents. [/quote]

My daughter formerly played for the mojo team for 2 years (national/black team) and it was a terrible experience. A majority of the coaches are incredibly immature, unprofessional, and can be down right nasty. I chalked up the first year to bad luck but we experienced the same thing last year. My daughter got plenty of playing time but i noticed she was developing a significant amount of anxiety about likely stemming from the coaches. When they start losing the coaches would say things like "[b]you're so lazy, you just don't care[/b]", the communication from the coaches was pretty terrible and my daughter indicated the practices were typically "boring and the coaches were not typically engaged". At the end of the season, I provided the owner, Mahraya with feedback about the coaches and her response was that "my daughter needed to get used to that type of coaching bc volleyball coaches are notoriously. mean".

Just a little information, Mojo was around years ago but they merged with East Coast Power 2 years ago but Mahraya had a falling out with the owner of ECP so they restarted Mojo again. The owner bad mouthed ECP instead of taking the high road and that stuck with me. In the past, they have promised players certain positions but not upheld the offer. Lastly, she decides all the teams and does not allow the coaches to make individual changes and honestly her favorites are pretty bad -hence why they never win... I would stay far far away from this club. [/quote]
That shows a lot of immaturity for a club volleyball coach. We had coaches on rec teams who had a better attitude: they were encouraging their players even as they were making a lot of mistakes. When you put down players, they shut down and make even more mistakes. Soon the whole team is demoralized and most likely lose, so it's even easier to cast blame. The coaching culture needs to change if they want to be more successful.[/quote]

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