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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I checked the rosters. From last year’s Paramount 17 team, only one player remains on Paramount 18, two players are now on VA Juniors 18, and six players are on Metro 18 Travel. Not sure about the remaining few. What happened?[/quote]

Hmm this is odd. 
1) where did all of Metro’s rising 18s disperse to? I count 7 returning players on that squad rising from 17s.

2) This board usually accuses Paramount of grabbing players for 1 year, but it feels like this is what happened with Metro Travel 18s this year, and they just took Paramount players. Seriously where did Metro’s 17 players from last year go to?

3) I see 16 players on Metro 18 Travel, which feels insane. All of their Travel teams seem quite large. Not sure how to feel about that.

4) generally speaking, Metro seems to have had more consistency with recruiting successes. Paramount, VA Jrs, VA Elite, they all put up 1-3 studs per year, with then several others landing at low to mid schools from all vantages. I guess maybe one can surmise if kids at 18s level don’t have offers yet, maybe switching a club is a last ditch effort to see if they can make something happen. Who knows. [/quote]
Last year's Metro 17s has many more players leaving early for college than in prior years, which is a growing trend for all of collegiate volleyball. My understanding is that 6 players from last year's 17s are going to college early, one player was playing up a year and decided to play another season with Metro 17 Travel (it's a longer, more spread out season), and one player decided not to play 18s. With 7 returning to play on 18 Travel, that accounts for the whole team, meaning none opted to play for another club.  It did create a lot of openings for players from other clubs compared to last year's 18 Travel which only picked up one player who hadn't played for Metro in the prior season.

The 16 players thing isn't great for sure, but by 18s injuries are a lot more common and it's likely that all healthy players will be able to at least be on the roster for most tournaments. That said, even 15 is too many and 3-4 players probably won't get a ton of playing time in many tournaments.

An interesting thing to me is that this iteration of 18 Travel won't be nearly as tall as prior seasons. Last year's Metro 18 Travel had 9 players who were legitimately taller than 6 feet and several more who were close and rounded up, but I don't think this season's team has anything close to that many. There are plenty of highly successful teams that are not crazy tall that tend to be quick with excellent ball control - whether Metro can succeed in pulling that kind of team together remains to be seen. 
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