Anonymous
06/10/2025 16:06
Subject: College Volleyball camp (girls) reviews / recommendations
Anonymous wrote:DD just received an email inviting her to John’s Hopkins’ volleyball camp. Anyone have any experience with it?
My experience with college volleyball camps are limited to clicking on their ads, looking at the prices in disbelief, and saying "there's no way I will spend this much money on a camp." I would like my DD to learn more about her favorite sport, but we are trying to be realistic about her chances of playing for a better club or in college. They are close to zero not only because of her height, but also because of how much she works outside practice (which is negligible). A few hours of excellent coaching will be a drop in the bucket that won't really make a big difference. Plus, the excellent coaching will likely be reserved to the more advanced players (the less advanced players will likely see less of the star coaches). Let us know how it goes if you attend any of these camps.
Anonymous
06/10/2025 14:59
Subject: College Volleyball camp (girls) reviews / recommendations
DD just received an email inviting her to John’s Hopkins’ volleyball camp. Anyone have any experience with it?
Anonymous
05/12/2025 17:20
Subject: College Volleyball camp (girls) reviews / recommendations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Coach Johns is running volleyball clinics this summer in NOVA. She is a great coach and got my non-club playing DD on track for her HS team a few years ago.
https://legacyvba.sportngin.com/register/form/842993704?_gl=1*1663dt0*_ga*Nzk2Njg0NjcyLjE3NDY3NTc0NzM.*_ga_PQ25JN9PJ8*czE3NDY3NTc0NzMkbzEkZzEkdDE3NDY3NTc0ODMkajUwJGwwJGgw#_ga=2.38306923.93841843.1746757473-796684672.1746757473
This reminds me of the last year's tryout saga, where Legacy officials tried to advertise while pretending to have no connection to the club. Pretty much everyone else was saying that taking the teams in a new club to so many qualifiers doesn't make any sense, but they were claiming the opposite. Let's see...
LVA 14-1: 2364/4959
LVA 15-1: 3641/4296
LVA 16-1: 1656/4214
They managed to roster 3 teams at the most popular age levels. They are not doing bad for a new club (especially the 16s), but they are nowhere near the point where travelling to multiple qualifiers is justified. Quite a waste of time and money for most of the families involved. Conclusion: trust the collective wisdom, not the club officials who are trying to hype their clubs. I have some doubts that a parent whose daughter made it onto the HS team a few years back makes the effort to advertise a coach out of the blue on a dormant thread. Just saying...
Given this is anonymous I will not be able to convince you. Is this how club vball works? So much distrust? We are an AAU basketball family and so glad DD didn’t give it up for this nonsense.
You should give me the benefit of the doubt because of the the Legacy debacle before the tryouts. Let me get this straight: you are the parent of a HS volleyball player who never played club. You have little interest in volleyball because you are a basketball family. Somehow you get the sportsengine link and you decide that volleyball parents would be interested. You dig up an inactive volleyball thread and advertise the coach who helped your DD make the HS team a few years back. Then you stick around to see how your message is received. That sounds credible.
The thread is month old? Listen, my daughter owes her HS career to Coach Johns. I don’t care if you believe me, but her skills training is the best we encountered. People are always asking if you have to play club to make your high school team, and the answer is no. But whoever you are, please go on believing your conspiracy theories.
What parent talks about their kid's HS sport as their "career"?
Anonymous
05/10/2025 13:17
Subject: College Volleyball camp (girls) reviews / recommendations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Coach Johns is running volleyball clinics this summer in NOVA. She is a great coach and got my non-club playing DD on track for her HS team a few years ago.
https://legacyvba.sportngin.com/register/form/842993704?_gl=1*1663dt0*_ga*Nzk2Njg0NjcyLjE3NDY3NTc0NzM.*_ga_PQ25JN9PJ8*czE3NDY3NTc0NzMkbzEkZzEkdDE3NDY3NTc0ODMkajUwJGwwJGgw#_ga=2.38306923.93841843.1746757473-796684672.1746757473
This reminds me of the last year's tryout saga, where Legacy officials tried to advertise while pretending to have no connection to the club. Pretty much everyone else was saying that taking the teams in a new club to so many qualifiers doesn't make any sense, but they were claiming the opposite. Let's see...
LVA 14-1: 2364/4959
LVA 15-1: 3641/4296
LVA 16-1: 1656/4214
They managed to roster 3 teams at the most popular age levels. They are not doing bad for a new club (especially the 16s), but they are nowhere near the point where travelling to multiple qualifiers is justified. Quite a waste of time and money for most of the families involved. Conclusion: trust the collective wisdom, not the club officials who are trying to hype their clubs. I have some doubts that a parent whose daughter made it onto the HS team a few years back makes the effort to advertise a coach out of the blue on a dormant thread. Just saying...
Given this is anonymous I will not be able to convince you. Is this how club vball works? So much distrust? We are an AAU basketball family and so glad DD didn’t give it up for this nonsense.
You should give me the benefit of the doubt because of the the Legacy debacle before the tryouts. Let me get this straight: you are the parent of a HS volleyball player who never played club. You have little interest in volleyball because you are a basketball family. Somehow you get the sportsengine link and you decide that volleyball parents would be interested. You dig up an inactive volleyball thread and advertise the coach who helped your DD make the HS team a few years back. Then you stick around to see how your message is received. That sounds credible.
The thread is month old? Listen, my daughter owes her HS career to Coach Johns. I don’t care if you believe me, but her skills training is the best we encountered. People are always asking if you have to play club to make your high school team, and the answer is no. But whoever you are, please go on believing your conspiracy theories.
That's true, you only had to dig 3 pages back. You probably saw a more recent thread talking exactly about HS volleyball, but you continue digging further. It takes guts for a parent of a HS volleyball player with no club experience to claim that one specific volleyball coach has the best skills training. Is it possible that you encountered fewer volleyball coaches because your daughter only has HS experience? Since you become more and more credible with every post you leave here, I'm going to go back to my conspiracy theories...