If you look at it as pickup games (and not really a sports league), it is fine.

My tween did a volleyball clinic which was perfectly fine and priced similarly to other options. It was organized and friendly.

We did i9 for basketball. It was fine, I thought it was an easy way to introduce your kid to a sport.

Anonymous wrote:We tried i9 when my kids were preschoolers and didn't care for it. It was very expensive and the teams required a lot of parent participating all throughout the practice (i.e. playing catch with your own kid at baseball). Obviously, that will be different with older kids, but the experience turned me off from i9 altogether.

What did expect from a three year old class. Even better is when bats, balls, hoops are introduced at home and parents playing catch with their preschooler at home.

Anonymous wrote:Avoid, its terrible.

TOTALLY agree! They are VERY INCOMPETENT!!

This was our first time with I9 organization and definitely DON’T recommend them.
Going to keep it very brief; they are incompetent and it needs LOTS of improvement.
They changed rules in just about EVERY game we played.
The referees were clueless with volleyball rules and the score keeper weren’t very distracted and not keeping score properly.
We will NEVER be involved with that organization!

This thread pops up every now and then and always surprises me. Ive had good experiences with i9 in various sports with younger kids in VA.

We haven't done it for years but just signed my 9 year old up for volleyball since its a brand new sport for them and wanted to start with something casual.

We've had good luck, but with younger kids. Older son did t-ball when he was 3.5 and younger son is doing soccer now at age 3.