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[quote=FPYCparent][quote=Anonymous]

Could you share any perspectives on your experience w/TSJ for girls club vb?  Specifically, the coaching, how the program runs, level of competitiveness in the 15-16 yr old range?  TIA.[/quote]

My DD played at TSJ on a top team two years ago.  It was her first VB club season after having played 5+ years of another club/travel sport (DD had only starting playing VB during COVID while in middle school).  The team's coaches were great as was the facility.  The returning team members had gone to USAV Nationals the year prior (not sure what division they played at Nationals that year).  I understand that they lost a key member or two from the prior year's team.  With the influx of new players, they team seemed to have the talent to succeed.  I think (again, as a novice VB club parent) they just needed another year together to really solidify as a unit.

The VB management at TSJ seemed to make a misstep or two during that season.  For example, DD's team did not participate in enough local events in time to qualify for CHRVA Bid Regionals that March.  Could that error have been on the coach?  Maybe, but it seems like at least one person on the admin side would have noticed that in time to correct it.  So, the team was basically out-of-the-running for earning a bid allocated to the region by mid-February.  That team may not have earned a bid via CHRVA, but they never had the chance to play for it.  At the end of the season, the coach was not offered the opportunity to return and move up with the team for the following season (yet the B team coaches were allowed to return and move up to coach the A team).  It is probably unsurprising that only one player from that team returned to play for TSJ last year.  Three players earned spots at Paramount, while others played at Mojo, Renaissance (unfortunate for those players), Columbia, and elsewhere, so it seems that there was some talent there.  Had the coach been asked to return, I think many/most of the team would have stayed.

I don't quite know what happened to TSJ teams last year, but it seems that some of last year's new coaches that were there aren't returning.  As it is now, I only recognize one girls' coach from two years ago that's still there.

Other than that, the facility is great ... parking aside!  :)[/quote]

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