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I think you're exaggerating the turnover at Paramount. Their top players do not leave, and if they had as much turnover as you are implying and are as over the top as you are implying, how do their teams have so much success? My DD has attended clinics there but we know she'd probably never make their team. While there have certainly been girls at Paramount who have quit over the years, I'd say the vast majority of the turnover is new talent replacing the bottom half of talent on the teams from the previous season. If Paramount's top talent was hemorrhaging every season, how could they possibly be at the point where all their teams earned bids to USAV Nationals the past two seasons (Metro is the only other club to do this)? How is Paramount the only club in the region besides Metro actually competing and winning at the open level? The players who quit Paramount/Metro/Jrs are usually the players who are not getting the playing time they want (for example, Jrs 17s team two years ago had 6 girls quit before Nationals, not because of intense coaching but because of the games the coach played and the empty promises left on the table). Metro will stick 15 players on all their travel teams, and there are always 4-5 players who never see the court (Metro 16s coach is the most maniacal coach in the entire region, imo). And yet, those girls scratch and claw to get on and stay on all those club's teams. But as PP said, the great thing about our region is there are options for everybody; if you don't like the intense style, there are plenty of quality options besides Metro and Paramount. If you want to play D1 AND win, though, Metro and Paramount are separating themselves from the rest at this point in time (Metro obviously the cream of the crop as of now). You can get one without the other at some of the other clubs in our area (e.g., the recruiting without the winning, like at VAE), but imo Metro and Paramount are the only two where you can get the winning and the recruiting at this moment in time.[/quote]

Bless your heart.  Until your DD actually plays a season or two at Paramount, you have no idea what you are talking about.  Metro same.  Ask me how I know.[/quote]

It actually takes a lot for any team (and I include metro in this), to attract the starters from any one of Jnrs, VAE or Paramount - aside from only a couple of cases I know of, the kids moving around are generally those that didn’t play much, so I would venture to say - none of the starters at Paramount went anywhere. The answer to your question Re bids is simple - in my opinion, the Paramount coaching staff is by far the best in the region - they get much more with less than the other clubs, and no my DD has never played at Paramount but I have seen them across the net. There was a time when Paramount took a lot of other club’s castoffs (mainly Jnrs and VAE) and moulded them into fantastic teams. Playing in open is not for the faint of heart but it is where kids get tested against the best of the best and Metro has been the standout for the last 8 years. If I am correct, Paramount only started playing in open last year and did very well. VAE usually is quite competitive in open at 17 and 18s but below that is a car crash. Jnrs play in a lesser division and that is one of the reasons for their slide in recent years - the region’s parents are becoming much more savvy on how the recruiting process works and, for the most part, playing in division 4 doesn’t do much.[/quote]

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