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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Bethesda, she will be attending BCC, Whitman, or Walter Johnson. These are all good high school teams.

Next week, her high school coaches will evaluate her during tryouts.

[b]If she makes varsity as a freshman, she should attend Metro and Paramount clinics in the fall, as she may have great potential and could make the MVSA or MOCO first teams.[/b]

If she makes JV, she may make the MVSA or MOCO second or third teams, and she should try to attend MOCO's Club Prep Sessions for example:
https://www.mocovc.org/clubprep

If she doesn't make JV, MEVC, Platform, and Academy may be her most realistic options. She should try to attend fall clinics by these clubs. I believe MEVC and Platform have 2 and 3 15U teams respectively, and Academy has 1.[/quote]

This entire post is completely hilarious, especially the bolded part. You forgot to mention that she should try out for Metro if she is a starter on Varsity. You do realize that the Bethesda area is full of MVSA, MOCO, Platform, and MEVC players, right? Do you believe that a freshmen with no club experience will make the varsity team? This is the type of advice that gets people's hopes high, just to crash during tryouts.

Even the advice conditional on the acceptance in the JV team is out of whack. You can be a starter on the JV team and not be able to make MVSA or MOCO. If you make it to the JV team because [b]they need a few bench warmers after they ran out of club players[/b] who are trying out, then you are clearly not going to make MOCO or MVSA. [/quote]
By 8/8, Walter Johnson has 72 people registered for girls volleyball.
https://x.com/WJWildcats/status/1953864299887087962
The registration ends on 8/11.

Do you think the Walter Johnson JV team will "need a few bench warmers after they ran out of club players"?[/quote]
I am not familiar with Walter Johnson volleyball scene, but I am willing to make some predictions. About one third (or less) of the 72 girls will try out for Varsity. Most of the incoming juniors already know they have no chance of making the varsity team, so they won't even bother. 25-50% of the rest never touched a real volleyball. They figured out that the high school offer some sports and they noticed volleyball on the list of sports available for fall. They believe they can get a ball over the net if they have to, so they signed up for the tryouts. Pretty early during the first day of tryouts (I give them about 15-30 minutes) they will start questioning whether they are in the wrong place and whether they should even show up the second and the third days of tryouts. There will be about 10-15 club players (this is where I don't know the specifics for Walter Johnson) most of whom will get on the JV roster. The coach will select a few other players with little or no volleyball experience (mostly tall and / or athletic) to fill out the rest of the JV roster (if there is any space left). Most of these and some of the club players will warm the bench during most games (they will get some court time in games against weak opponents). [/quote]

This is pretty close to what happened at WJ but I'm not sure that a single person without club experience made the team. I think we are seeing the acedence of volleyball in this area reflected in high school tryouts.[/quote]

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