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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So in terms of the discussion of how to improve the level of CHRVA teams on the national level I'm not sure what actions the region could take. Obviously if the ~7 non-starters on the Metro Travel teams were distributed among other competitive teams, that might increase parity within the region a little bit but I don't know if it would result in any improvement in how any of these teams perform against open teams from other regions. And it's not clear how CHRVA could do this anyway - USAV caps the roster size at 15 and I doubt CHRVA would be allowed to set a lower cap. It's also not reasonable to expect individual players who want to play D1 volleyball to go to another club if they get an offer from Metro. [b]The data suggests that playing for a Metro Travel team does give an advantage in getting recruited and pretty much every player on a Metro Travel team hopes to play in college.[/b][/quote]

Overall, there is an advantage in playing for Metro Travel in getting recruited -- no argument there. But there is a lot of selection bias to get to your statement. First, the clubs that focus on recruiting marketing usually do not keep players that aren't going to play in college (read the earlier posts on the thread about players being cut from those teams). Second, some players that come into their older teams from other clubs are already being recruited. So while its true that their 17s & 18s have a near 100% recruiting success, its not true that their program has a 100% recruiting success.

If you are current parent of a player, of course its not reasonable to ask your DD to play for another club if D1 is her goal.  But if you have a younger player and are reading this thread, we should be honest and acknowledge that a large number of players who start with the younger travel teams at Metro, VA Elite and to a lesser extent Paramount do not end up playing for them at U17 or U18. Part of that is player opting-out of the club, but just as much is the club opting-out of the player. [/quote]

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