Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the estimated open date for the MOCO club prep open? Does it fill as fast as The Fall Training did?

Most volleyball activities fill up pretty quickly. Too many parents with a lot of money in this area. You can sign up for the waitlists and you may be lucky: some clubs add another session or another team if they see demand and they can wiggle more players in. They won't say no to more money.

I understand that part but how quickly is pretty quickly? Minutes, Seconds, Hours.

Depends on the club. On the MD side, MVSA and MOCO activities tend to fill up very quickly. Sometimes in a day or less.

You shouldn't have that problem with MOCO club prep sessions though because as the PP said you request times then they send out emails a few days before the session telling you if you have a spot or not.

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Anonymous wrote:
Based on our experience, not doing the fall training with MOCO reduces your chances of making a team. Participation in the fall training might show some sort of commitment to the club. But that's not all: they get to know the players during the fall training program and they give the participants additional rope. We know one player who was offered a spot on a MOCO team, even though she could not show up at the tryouts (because of an injury). The offer was based entirely on her participation at the fall training.

That's just not fair.

Actually, I'd suggest its exactly the opposite. Player plays for weeks with a club. The club sees her play and asks her to tryout. Player gets injured before tryouts. Now she can't tryout for the club she was playing for or for any other club.

If it was your DD who was in that situation, what would you expect the fair treatment to be? She wants to play club, she's worked hard during the fall and apparently is good enough to make a team. Would you want the club to say "Sorry, we aren't interested" because you missed the 1 day of tryouts after they saw her play for several months?

What if a player is sick on tryout day? What if they get hurt 5 minutes into tryouts? What if a family emergency arises that stop the player from getting to tryouts? What if it's your DD that misses tryouts because of any of those situations? We've heard stories about all of those circumstances and if a club has seen your DD play before and are interested in her, most clubs will work with the family to figure out options. But if you haven't shown any interest in the club or the club hasn't shown interest in you then the club might not be as accommodating. That's why its important to attend fall clinics for any club you have interest in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Based on our experience, not doing the fall training with MOCO reduces your chances of making a team. Participation in the fall training might show some sort of commitment to the club. But that's not all: they get to know the players during the fall training program and they give the participants additional rope. We know one player who was offered a spot on a MOCO team, even though she could not show up at the tryouts (because of an injury). The offer was based entirely on her participation at the fall training.

That's just not fair.

Not sure if the injured player had played for MOCO in a prior season, but picking teams is a difficult balancing act for the clubs. Most clubs generally have some loyalty to players who played for them in the prior season and that makes sense. Starting the season with a core group that has played together before is definitely an advantage. But it’s also a good idea to add new players to the team, hopefully to help the overall team improve. But that can lead to situations where players who played for a club for one or more seasons don’t get offers which is a difficult thing to do.

The important thing for parents and prospective players to know that every season is not empty roster that is picked solely on how a player performs at tryouts. Returners, players a club has gotten to know through clinics or high school volleyball, and other factors are all as important (if not more) than what happens at tryouts. So have a few options for potential clubs and make an effort to have your DD get to know those clubs (and vice versa) before tryouts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the estimated open date for the MOCO club prep open? Does it fill as fast as The Fall Training did?

Most volleyball activities fill up pretty quickly. Too many parents with a lot of money in this area. You can sign up for the waitlists and you may be lucky: some clubs add another session or another team if they see demand and they can wiggle more players in. They won't say no to more money.

I understand that part but how quickly is pretty quickly? Minutes, Seconds, Hours.

Anonymous wrote:
Based on our experience, not doing the fall training with MOCO reduces your chances of making a team. Participation in the fall training might show some sort of commitment to the club. But that's not all: they get to know the players during the fall training program and they give the participants additional rope. We know one player who was offered a spot on a MOCO team, even though she could not show up at the tryouts (because of an injury). The offer was based entirely on her participation at the fall training.

That's just not fair.

In the pre-tryout clinics, MoCo will tell you that if you signed up for multiple clinics, they may turn you down so that others who have not yet attended but signed up can attend.

Anonymous wrote:What is the estimated open date for the MOCO club prep open? Does it fill as fast as The Fall Training did?

In our experience, if you sign up you will get into at least 1 club prep session with MOCO. They are pretty open about how they run the sessions. You put in a request with all of the sessions you can attend and then they send you an email a few days before either confirming you or not. I don’t think they run any “secret” invite-only clinics that other clubs run, or at least none that we heard of last year.

So even though it fills up like all the clinics in the area, you’ll have a chance to be seen and to see their coaches.

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Anonymous wrote:No we are on the waitlist.

There's gonna be another moco clinic later in the fall. Make sure you sign up for that.

Based on our experience, not doing the fall training with MOCO reduces your chances of making a team. Participation in the fall training might show some sort of commitment to the club. But that's not all: they get to know the players during the fall training program and they give the participants additional rope. We know one player who was offered a spot on a MOCO team, even though she could not show up at the tryouts (because of an injury). The offer was based entirely on her participation at the fall training.