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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There should be more clubs geared towards the girls that want to do travel and are new to the sport 1/2 years in and just want to play abut not do rec. There is definately a market[/quote]

I thought travel was geared towards serious D1 recruits.  Regional was more for the average, slightly above average player that also plays HS. Maybe an outside shot at DIV 2 or 3 college player.[/quote]

The terms "club" and "travel" are somewhat synonymous in volleyball, but for some reason the volleyball world tends to use "club" more often. When explaining all of this madness to non-volleyball parents, I usually say club volleyball is roughly equivalent to travel soccer.

"Regional" is a label some clubs use to refer to teams that play in mostly local tournaments, but there aren't bright lines dividing teams/clubs as regional or travel. Metro labels their top team in each age group as "travel" and they definitely travel a lot more than the Metro regional teams (North, South, East, Central), but the regional teams usually go to at least 2 multi-day tournaments that require overnight stays and although different clubs use different terms, many are structured the same way. To make it even more confusing, there are highly competitive teams (for example, many of the MVSA 1s teams) that don't go to tournaments that require flights (except maybe for Nationals) while there are teams that go to lots of big tournaments requiring significant travel, but play in the lower, less competitive divisions. As has been discussed a lot in this thread and others, most of the D1 recruits locally come out of 5 or 6 local clubs, but that doesn't mean that many of the clubs outside of that group don't travel a lot.
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