re: Pre-teen Volleyball Advice

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Here in FL we have what they call a mini club season which is like July-OCT. Club season start in Nov/Dec usually.

I know Texas has many clubs- from my kid playing: TAV-Mad Frog-Skyline that are really good.

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She actually just finished 2 mini club seasons, not her cup of tea at all. It actually felt just a step above i9 volleyball. The mini club (at Skyline) doesn't cut anyone. They take the top 10 players (based off of their very brief evaluations; eval ~100 players in 1 hr) and put them on 1 team. Then everyone else is split into teams of 9-11. Both mini club seasons she was teamed up with girls that had never played volleyball before. She was one of 3 or 4 that would actually move to the ball. This last season, her "coach" never even attended practice; she only showed up for the tournaments. So playing against actual clubs with a team made of up mostly new players was brutal. Pair that with an absent coach and it put a bad taste in her mouth for mini club. She did however like the tournaments and the more disciplined structure that mini club had versus something like i9.

Suffice to say, she has moved on from mini club and i9. The clubs she's looking at have their tryouts in June and July.