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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]

Yes it’s nice to be “chosen” but I encourage you to take note of what happens to the girls they aren’t trying to recruit during those clinics. I’m not sure they are even aware of how distasteful it is. Maybe they think other clubs do the same “separate the wheat from the chaff” thing during clinics, but they don’t.[/quote]

Actually, most clubs do separate girls out during clinics. At least the majority of the ones I’ve been to with my DD. [/quote]

It depends on the level of the players in the clinics. It is difficult to work with players that are at very different levels - especially beginners, who don't know their role and/or how to transition during games. If they accept everyone into clinics, they typically end up with an "advanced" court and a "beginner" court. This is ideal for all the players because you want to be on the court where everyone has about your skill level. The beginner players might feel bad in that environment, but they would not be able to keep up on the advanced court. I would argue that the beginner players do don benefit much from those clinics and likely overpaid to be there.

We've been to clinics where everyone was at a very similar level. The players were still divided on two courts, but the teams were mostly self-selected based on prior friendships / club memberships. Moving players from one court to the other would have not made a lot of difference. This is the ideal clinic and we hope to find more of them in the future. [/quote]

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