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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have thoughts on DC Academy's chances of growing into a competitive club? Coach Amy, who founded the club, was successful at MoCo. This will be her third year running her own club. My daughter played for them in years one and two, and they were not very competitive. I think the coaching staff is great, but I have a kid who loves playing there but would like to win some games. She has improved a ton and was easily one of the better kids on her jv team.

It seems like there is a focus on recruitment and they've been running a ton of clinics so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Thoughts? [/quote]
They are two years old in terms of years played, so a toddler in club terms. The first two years haven't shown meaningful growth in team results. Their 13s from 2 years ago was made up largely of new players and a few club players that came over with her when they moved.  Their 14s the next year performed much worse than their 13s team did the prior year. Their 16s from two years ago performed about the same as their 17s the next year.  While individual growth for specific players might have been good (she is a good coach), the overall growth of the players in the club has been variable. If past performance is an indicator of future results then the expectation would be that they won't be more competitive this year.

Its yet to be seen if Academy can develop recruitable players from a set of players that they grow from inside the club.  Its relatively straightforward to take a set of players from different clubs with recruitable potential and get them seen by the right colleges.  Its a completely different thing to develop recruitable players from a younger age (U14-U15).  Very few experienced volleyball families who are looking for that level of development would have Academy on their list.  Maybe that changes in the future, a couple of years from now.

If you are HS age and playing JV as one of the better players its important to remember that HS JV can be really variable in its relative performance level. If everyone around you is a club player playing on a top team and you are the best player then you might have college potential.  If you are one of a few clubs players and everyone plays on club teams that tend to perform poorly, then you its much less likely you are college potential.[/quote]

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