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Post by runaggierun on Oct 17, 2005 7:59:34 GMT -5
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Post by Tee-Sharp on Oct 17, 2005 8:50:14 GMT -5
It is great that they are able to perform well without Arlene Mitchell. How serious is her injury? Will she return this season?
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Post by runaggierun on Oct 18, 2005 7:46:35 GMT -5
Yes, Arlene will be returning this season. Everyone is really stepping up without her!
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Post by aggiemanone on Oct 18, 2005 19:01:10 GMT -5
Now if football and basketball would only catch up with baseball and volleyball to complete the whole sports package.
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Post by Maxell on Oct 19, 2005 13:21:05 GMT -5
The team lost last night to University of Charlotte 3-0 and Charlotte is only a .500 team this year. It was evidently not pretty and I began to wonder why. I went on the Charlotte website and the answer became more obvious as I looked at their roster. Their team was not any bigger than ours but nearly every member of the team had played club volleyball (Junior Olympics) since the age of 12 or 13 yrs and most of the clubs were outside of North Carolina.
Club volleyball tournaments, just like AAU basketball, are where college coaches hang out to recruit players. At a large tournament there may be 200-300 high school players all at one venue playing on traveling teams that there was heated competition to make.
The issue is that club volleyball can run a few thousand dollars a year for the good program and there are not many black kids that participate. There was a club volleyball team at the gym where my kids played basketball and the practices are INTENSE!
If coach Sylvan(or most likely her assistant) begins to hit the club volleyball circuit for a recruit or two, watch out!
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