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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First things first, what’s the actual market for something like this? You need data beyond dcum and a few people around town. [/quote]
I could start a team tomorrow if I had the legal framework. DD has a bunch of friends who are staying in rec because club is either too demanding, too far, or too expensive. They would want something above rec, closer to home, less demanding and cheaper than club.

Many players feel pressured to join a club to keep alive their hope of making a high school team. They fall in love with volleyball, but - after a couple of seasons - they realize that they are far behind the varsity players and will never catch up. They become disillusioned with club volleyball, especially if they end up on bottom teams, spending a ton of money on with poor coaching and meaningless travel. By the time they turn 16 and cannot make their varsity team, they cannot justify wasting more of their time and money. Some of them might be willing to take it slower if they had an option that better fits their schedule and family budget. Some families who are more realistic about their kids abilities would turn to this option before their kid turns 16. This option may not guarantee much better coaching, but at least would be more affordable. [/quote]

I’m not sure where you’re located, but SYA has this. They have “travel” teams which you do need to tryout for, it’s way more experienced parent coaching, and the travel is all local (centreville, Fairfax, Chantilly, Vienna, etc). It’s the same cost as rec, and my 13yo DD really thrived on it. We decided not to do club bc of the price and commitment (although SYA also started a new club team this year that is more affordable), and will tryout for Travel again in the spring and do winter clinics. Might be worth reaching out to SYA or some of the other travel teams to see how they got setup! I love this idea, and absolutely see the need. Club is far too expensive for kids who just want to play competitively, but are not trying to get scholarships. If they don’t make the HS team, it would be nice if they could have something like this to fall back on. Good luck and I hope you can make it happen! It would benefit a lot of kids![/quote]

Baseball is different because NVTBL provides a lot of infrastructure for local "travel" play.  SYA is a unicorn within a unicorn because they have a little league running alongside their "travel"team which is eerily similar to their little league all star team.[/quote]

I posted this and I was referring to volleyball, not baseball.  We're also in the SYA LL program (that's another story for a different forum), and yes the LL runs differently.  However the volleyball program has House (rec), Travel (local), and Club (CHVRA) available at a much more affordable cost. On top of that, they hold clinics in the summer and winter for beginner and advanced. It's a great program, and we appreciate it. [/quote]

SYA was mentioned on this thread before. Great program but only available to those who live in reasonable driving distance (unfortunately). [/quote]

I think BRYC has something like this too.[/quote]
I can see a rec league, but that's pretty much it. The weight of the SYA program seems shifted toward rec, while the weight of the BRYC program seems shifted toward club. 
https://www.brycvolleyball.org/rec[/quote]

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