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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP who posted the data on U15 club for 2025 commits -- that was an awesome perspective -- thx for sharing!  I just cut and pasted that and sent it to my kid.

The PrepDig Rankings Archive is an imperfect list, but that may also be a useful source of volleyball commit data for this region by club.  Here's what I found from what was readily accessible on their site.  Data is for the classes of 2023 - 2026.  The 2027 cycle has just begun (N=12 currently), but the 2026 class is likely 80% or so complete.  This is a super quick and dirty analysis sorting clubs by those that commit the top 6 players or more,  less than 6, and less than 3 in a given year.  Top line: it does look like the regional commit numbers may have peaked in 2025 and started falling quite noticeably in 2026. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues.
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PP here. Thanks for this hard work, very helpful!  I wonder if we can get an actual CHRVA recruits list going somewhere so we don't have to do all this work.

I used the Prep Dig info as well, and agree with you that its imperfect but useful.  Kudos to Bob et al. for the work they do to watch so many players every year.  That said, there are some limitations that can skew the data.

I do agree with your view that we may have fewer commits for the 2026 class than we did for 2025. A couple of factors are driving this. The biggest is that 5th year/post-grad players who had COVID waivers or COVID/Redshirt waivers finally finished their careers, opening up more spots than usual on rosters. Additionally, this is the first year the House settlement allows more scholarships, even as it capped roster sizes. This made getting a scholarship viable for more players and seems to have driven at least some additional commits who might have chosen not to play if they didn't get funding. Finally, the class of 2025 seemed to be deeper than most classes.  You could see it happening back in U14/U15 years.  The competition level suddenly took a significant jump up versus the previous year.

But the future may not be as bright. The elimination of the mandatory redshirt after transfers has made adding talent through the transfer portal important for D1. If you were a coach, would you offer a player a spot on your roster if you knew she needed a year or two to develop? Or would you hit the transfer portal and pick up a player that already has a year or two of college volleyball under their belt with proven results?

You can check out the 2024 transfer portal stats for women's volleyball at: [url]https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2022/4/25/transfer-portal-data-division-i-student-athlete-transfer-trends.aspx[/url]

Prep Dig Issues
1) They only have a Virginia list, which includes some of the MD/DC players but doesn't have any of the DE/WV or most of the Eastern MD Players. 
2) The VA list includes a number of non-CHRVA clubs and players (like 540, 757, Richmond-RVC, RVJ).
3) It only list the players Bob has ranked, and in the 2025 class there are at least a dozen including some D1 commits that aren't on the list at all. 
4) Players have to update both their club info and their college commit themselves. There's at least another dozen commits that haven't put their commit school in, and may even be a couple who committed to a D2 or D3 school their junior year but changed their mind and chose not to play. And there are easily 12+ incorrect club assignments for committed players.
5) The list gets built starting in U15 years, and it tends to skew towards clubs that have a least one player in the top 20 and/or the best high school teams. They then had a chance to watch everyone else on the team. That's why you see so many uncommitted players in the top 50 -- they were added and mostly ranked in U15/U16.  Most of the others are added as part of their showcases.

3,4,5 combine to skew the overall list some. It gets the obvious ones right (Metro, Paramount, VAE, VA Jrs), but tends to miss on at lot of the clubs with good players who tend to commit later in their club careers.

For example: Columbia has 7 recruits for 2025, only 2 are listed, 1 is wrong
LEVBC has 6 commits, only 4 are listed.
MOCO has 3 commits, none are listed.
MOJO has 3 commits, only 1 is listed
SRVC shows 2 commits, but one of them graduated in 2024. Plus 2 not listed.

A lot of these types of issues on are the 2024 and 2023 list as well.[/quote]

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