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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s been just about a week since the last age groups finished at USAV Girls Junior Nationals. Below are the results for the 43 CHRVA teams that participated in divisions requiring a bid. They are grouped by age, division, team, and placing out of total number of teams in the division.

Metro had a particularly good year, with 15 Travel winning the National Championship in 15 National, 16 Travel coming in 2nd in 16 National, and 17 Travel finishing 3rd in 17 Open. Also, Metro 18 Travel and 14 Travel both finished 13th in Open for their age groups.

Paramount also had some decent results, especially in the younger age groups with  12s and 13s both finishing in the top half of their divisions.

The MDJRs 11s and MVSA 14s coming in 11th in their divisions are excellent results.

A few observations about the state of CHRVA clubs based on which teams got bids and how they did at Nationals. Metro travel teams are still tops. Paramount is clearly next best and continues to grow and improve and will likely continue to close the gap, particularly with their investment in developing younger teams.  The next tier would seem to be VA Juniors and MDJRs. (and probably Blue Ridge but they choose mostly not to participate in USAV nationals)  The next group would be MVSA, Columbia, Liberty Elite, Loudoun Elite, and Premier Edge (out of Delaware) all of which had multiple teams compete.

One club that is sometimes included in the discussion of the top CHRVA clubs is VA Elite, but I’d have to say based on only a single team earning a bid that they are probably more of a mid tier club at this point.

Of course these observations are based on USAV nationals participation for a single season and a look at a longer period of time might lead to slightly different conclusions, but it’s seems like a reasonable reflection of the current state of the more competitive CHRVA clubs.

[b]18s[/b]
Open, Metro 18 Travel, 13 of 48
National, Liberty Elite 18 National, 37 of 48
National, Paramount 18 Walter, 27 of 48
American, MVSA 18 Chaos, 31 of 64
Freedom, MDJRs 18 Elite Black, 37 of 48
Freedom, VA Juniors 18 Elite, 21 of 48
[b]17s[/b]
Open, Metro 17 Travel, 3 of 36
National, Paramount 17 Nick, 34 of 48
American, VA Juniors 17 Elite, 17 of 64
American, Premier Edge 17, 35 of 64
Freedom, Loudoun Elite 17 Marissa, 31 of 48
Freedom, VA Elite 17s, 23 of 48
[b]16s[/b]
Open, Paramount 16 Nick, 33 of 36
National, Metro 16 Travel, 2 of 48
USA, MVSA 16 Sparks, 35 of 36
American, VA Juniors 16 Elite, 26 of 64
American, Premier Edge 16, 53 of 64
Freedom, Columbia 16 Black, 22 of 48
Freedom, Loudoun Elite 16 Josi, 29 of 48
[b]15s[/b]
Open, Paramount 15 Maureen, 29 of 36
National, Metro 15 Travel, 1 of 48
National, Paramount 15 Cruz, 37	of 48
American, Columbia 15 Red, 51 of 64
American, MDJRs 15 Elite Black,55 of 64
Freedom, VA Juniors 15 Elite, 34 of 48
Freedom, MVSA 15 Charge, 23 of 48
[b]14s[/b]
Open, Metro 14 Travel, 13 of 36
Open, MDJRs 14 Elite Black, 18 of 36
National, Paramount 14 Cozad, 33 of 48
USA, VA Juniors 14 Elite, 35 of 36
American, BAVA 14 Waves, 51 of 64
American, Liberty Elite 14 National, 55 of 64
Freedom, MVSA 14 Force, 11 of 48
Freedom, Paramount 14 Anderson, 29 of 48
[b]13s[/b]
Open, Blue Ridge 13 Blue, 23 of 24
National, Metro 13 Travel, 27 of 48
National, Paramount 13 Jaz, 17 of 48
American, American 13 Red, 31 of 64
American, MOCO Motion, 55 of 64
[b]12s[/b]
National, Metro 12 Travel, 31 of 48
American, Paramount 12 Jaz, 26 of 64
American, MVSA 12 Vortex, 33 of 64
[b]11s[/b]
National, MDJRs 11 Elite, 11 of 48[/quote]

Thank you for summarizing this data. I am wondering what is the reason why you placed MVSA (with 5 bids) at the same level as Columbia (2 bids), Liberty Elite (2 bids), Loudoun Elite (2 bids), and Premier Edge (2 bids) and not with VA Juniors (5 bids) and MDJRs (4 bids)? [/quote]
That’s a good point. It would be more correct to group MVSA in that second tier. I think I didn’t realize the overall number of their teams that got bids, and had more noticed that they had teams in lower divisions.

As an aside, my sense for years has been that MVSA was better at younger age groups (13s and younger) and then the competitiveness declines in the older age groups. Until a few years ago, MVSA Vortex was always the favorite to get the CHRVA 12 National bid, the 13s were typically strong, and they were one of the only 11s teams in the region. This year doesn’t align with that pattern. The highest division that an MVSA team got a bid for was 16 USA and they had bids at 14s, 15s, and 18s, but not 11s or 13s. Some of that is likely due to Paramount adding more teams in the younger age groups in the last few years and Metro following suit with a 12 Travel team this year. It’ll be interesting to see if clubs continue to add 11s or even younger teams. [/quote]
According to the data you posted, MVSA was in higher division than VA Juniors for 16s and 18s, so they must be doing something right in higher age groups as well. On top of that, Richard Montgomery HS won the state title with most of the players from MVSA rosters. It is true that MVSA tends to lose players to Metro in higher age groups - mostly those who are interested to play in college. Those who are mostly interested in academics tend to stick with MVSA. [/quote]

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