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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Club volleyball at the top level is a ruthless sport. I know of plenty kids who have been cut by metro travel at 14&15 age groups. It’s when ‘potential’ needs to start being realized. College coaches are x100 more ruthless than anything Metro can throw at you.

That said, Metro love poaching talent from their rivals, and plenty of them sit on the bench all season.[/quote]

+1 Metro poaches because they don't do a good job of developing players. They rely on just poaching the best athletes whom other clubs have developed. And, as the PP mentioned, often times some of these kids they poach end up standing on the sidelines all season because Metro will put 15 players on their roster for financial purposes and so that they can hog all the talent to weaken their local competition. Their grip in the area has somewhat been loosened because some (not a lot, but some) of these really talented athletes and players have decided to go the Paramount route instead and have actually beaten Metro Travel teams while playing for Paramount.

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I don't think either of my girls are tall enough or will be tall enough to be heavily recruited by any D1 travel team in the near future, but reading all of this makes me SO HAPPY that we turned down Metro regional in this last round of tryouts. We were offered a spot after waiting in that long line, and we were thrilled, but so glad we went with our gut. Time will tell how good or bad the decision we did make was, but we already feel that much better about it because even if our kid had had a good season, there's no way we want to be part of this toxic environment. And on the apparently incredibly remote chance our kid was ever offered a spot on Metro travel in the coming years (more because of height than skill)... I sure hope we turn it down.[/quote]

I think you made a wise choice. I don’t know if a single case in the past 10 yrs where a player has moved from metro regional to metro travel. They just poach everyone’s best players.[/quote]

Several of their current older travel players (17/18) got their start with Metro East and made the travel team at 13/14.[/quote]

Metro 12 East players routinely make 13 travel because Metro does not have a "travel" U12 team. However, it is very rare for a player on a U13 or older Metro Regional team to ever make the jump to a travel team.[/quote]

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