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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD did 4 seasons of club (this year opting out) and it is my impression that tryouts are prevetted via private invite only pre-tryout clinics. Often these are for girls who played in previous years and those the club has seen during camps and sign up clinics. If you aren’t invited to the private clinics, your chances of making the team via the try out are slim unless you’re DD is 6ft.

My DD had many volleyball friends from other teams and often they would post on social media of them at the invite only preseason clinics. Clubs don’t usually post about these but individual teens will.

There is also no loyalty in volleyball year to year. That goes both for the club and for the players. Never trust a coach who says “I want you on my team”.  Get it in writing, even if a text. Or a coach who says: “you’re my first alternate/ top spot on my wait list and as long as one player declines an offer you’re my first call”.

I hate that adult coaches do this stuff because my teen DD ALWAYS believed that was an offer and wouldn’t listen to me, no matter what, that it wasn’t an offer unless in writing and that we needed to keep trying out for other clubs. She always, ALWAYS thought the coaches meant she had an offer and just refused to budge. And it cost her every time and it was so hard as a parent to watch this happen and not have your child trust and listen to you.

Last year she got caught up in the ECP debacle (ECP announced 1 week before try outs they were leaving/closing their DMV clubs and just focusing on Delaware/PA leaving so many girls many girls without a returning club. This was after hosting camps, clinics and invite only clinics (all which are $$$). Her previous coach contacted a bunch of former players, asking them to follow him to his new club and to come to those try outs. [b]At those try outs he literally said to my kid: “i’d love to have you on my team. I’m so excited to see you play again this year.” And other stuff. She thought she was on the team again just at another club. I told her it wasn’t an offer until we got an email but she wouldn’t listen and said she didn’t want to go to anymore try outs. She did not get an offer.[/b] So many tears. And anger (from me) that an adult would say this stuff to a kid knowing how it would be received.

Good luck out there. [/quote]
That’s really awful. It would have been just as easy for the coach to say “you played well today, I will let you know if there’s a spot on the team for you once all the tryouts are finished.”

I have 2 DDs at different ends of the volleyball skill spectrum, and the tryout experiences were vastly different. While the more skilled DD got multiple offers every season and eventually settled onto a top team where she’s been for a few years, the other DD struggled every year to get even one offer, including from the club she played for in prior years. We knew the clinic game and she is a nice kid that coaches like, but similar to the stories above, she would get lots of positive feedback and be encouraged to try out, but the offers didn’t follow.

Fortunately, she always found a team but I remember one year it was Thursday or Friday after tryouts before the club confirmed she had an offer and the team was going to happen.

Good lucks to the older girls this weekend!  It’s rough out there. [/quote]

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