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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many girls on our club soccer team have left to play club volleyball. All are athletic, fast, and tall -- volleyball is "easier" than soccer once you hit 7th-8th grade IMO and a lot of girls start to get lazy (puberty, periods, wanting to look pretty) and so prefer an indoor sport that allows fake nails, jewelry, etc over the brutal physicality of soccer. No judgement. My DD has made this choice and I understand it. [/quote]
I guess it depends on how you define “easier”. I agree it’s less running and less contact, but to play volleyball at a high level requires a lot of skill. Around the age you cite, there starts to be a huge differential between the players who are good and the rest. Also, with the explosion of the popularity of volleyball and the smaller roster size versus sports like soccer and softball, making a competitive team is getting harder and harder.  You can see this play out in collegiate recruiting. A high school girls soccer player has 1 in 41 odds of making a D1 roster while a high school girls volleyball player has 1 in 83 odds of making a D1 roster. [url]https://scholarshipstats.com/varsityodds[/url][/quote]

Yeah, agree, shouldn’t be tossing “easier” into it. This was a weird post.[/quote]

But fake nails and jewelry![/quote]

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