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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New Volleyball dad here.

I couldn't always tell who got the point because everybody high fives each other after the ball touches the ground.  It confused the fk out of me.

Boys dress like basketball players.  Girls dress like swimmers with kneepads.  Can't the girls dress like basketball players too?  Am I the ONLY dad that feels this way?

Moms are a little bit more scary in volleyball than in other sports.  I'm 200 pounds and they're pretty aggressive.

Volleyball is a lot more fun to watch than I thought.  America is sleeping on volleyball as a spectator sport.[/quote]
Under most rule sets (NFHS which most HS conferences use and USAV) players aren’t required to wear the short spandex shorts if they don’t want to. There are guidelines about the colors/patterns matching, but if a girl wants to wear something more like basketball shorts that’s allowed. I suppose a coach could try to enforce some kind of requirement that everyone on the team has to wear the same style, but it would be a pretty bad look if a coach forced a player to wear something they were not comfortable wearing. There has been a big trend toward wearing leggings and on many teams you’ll see a mix of leggings and spandex shorts.

Volleyball is a great spectator sport and has been exploding in recent years both on television and on various streaming options. I would also highly recommend going to see some collegiate matches in person. While the U of MD volleyball team is usually near the bottom of the Big Ten, they have been getting pretty big crowds in recent years and [b]last year had over 13,000 people come to their match against Nebraska[/b]. Being in the Big Ten means a lot of the best college teams in the country come through college park. But don’t sleep on the other local college teams - lots of good volleyball being played across the DMV. [/quote]

I was one of the 13,000 people at that game. However, most of them came to see Nebraska, not UMD. Most people were rooting for Nebraska (more than half were wearing Nebraska merch): I felt bad for UMD because it was supposed to be a home game. [/quote]

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