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Hugh school season, then a club season with 2 practices per week, 1-2 qualifiers and a few 1 day local tournaments + AAU Nationals at 16 and 17 really should be enough for any player  who is not going to commit D1.  [/quote]

For college recruiting focused club players who want to play D3 or above, that schedule doesn’t work very well.  Practice time is really important, and unfortunately to be seen by enough coaches you often have to travel more.

For non-college focused players, I agree. Fortunately there are still a number of clubs up to U16 that have that type of schedule. Once you get to U17&U18, a significant number of players still playing are going after college recruiting opportunities.

This is an old debate in other sports, especially the basketball, baseball and football. College coaches often complain about players being over-focused on a single sport, playing too much and coming into college with injury concerns.  However, none of them stop recruiting those players, so it’s become mandatory to play those sports year-round for most athletes.  AAU basketball started the trend, quickly followed by baseball (both Little League and then American Legion, etc). It’s been more than 30 years without any change in those sports.

It would be great if there were an option between rec volleyball and club volleyball, but it would take county and city rec organizations  focusing on volleyball leagues to create it, along with some national organization setting up the right structures. The difference between volleyball and basketball/baseball is that those sports started from the grass roots (rec) and built up to club, with lots of options in between.

Volleyball in CHRVA is building from the top down, and there just aren’t many good options to play outside of club. Other regions have a much better infrastructure, but CHRVA and the local sports organizations make zero investment of time or money in developing those options.[/quote]

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