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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MEVC and MOCO also has U10-12 teams.[/quote]

The difference is none of those clubs that traditionally do U10-U12 have any open-level teams when the girls get older. MVSA is known to be strong in U10-U14, but then around U15 all those girls leave for bigger clubs because they know they need to do so for college recruiting and competitiveness purposes.  But now with Paramount expanding into the U10-U12 category, we finally have an elite club in our area getting into those age groups. [/quote]

Paramount built by having one strong team at each level—initially by recruiting players from other clubs. Other clubs seem to be building from the youngest groups up. There’s nothing wrong with either approach. It’s great paramount is expanding, more young players is a good thing for the region.

But Metro travel and VA Elite are the only teams consistently in open at qualifiers, and only Metro travel performs respectably historically.  Paramount got bids at all levels, which was awesome, but only 18s qualified in Open. 16s got a USA bid, and everyone else got either a National or American bid through the region.

In most tournaments in the area and the regional travel tournaments it’s the same clubs in open every time, at least for their top teams:  Metro, Paramount, MVSA, VA juniors, MOCO, MD Juniors, VA Elite, Blue Ridge, Premier, LEVBC.  Those 10 clubs make up at least half of the top 20 in CHRVA in U12-U16, and in some ages they are the entire top 10.

Those clubs also make up most of the AVCA, MaxPreps and Prepdig lists for the region now. There are players at every one of those clubs getting recruited.  We should want the region to have lots of strong clubs, it helps improve both recruiting and competition levels.[/quote]

Paramount 18s didn’t just get an open bid. They finished 5th place at USAV Nationals in 18 Open. That’s the best finish in CHRVA Region history for the Open Division. To put that into perspective, the previous best finish for a CHRVA team in 18 Open was 17th (Metro Travel). Historically, Metro is the only club that has consistently won open bids (Paramount 15s also earned an open bid 3 years ago). However, metro has been around since the 90s, and the current club director bought the club 7 years ago. So, that kind of success should be expected from a club that’s been around for 20+ years and for a long time has held a monopoly on all the area’s top talent. In comparison, Paramount is only in year 7, and for the first 3 years of existence as a club they didn’t have more than 3 total teams. The club was started with girls who were cut from VAJRS. I experienced firsthand how Paramount took these players who were cut and then trained them up and beat the clubs they were cut from. [/quote]

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