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Post by sandman32 on Jan 29, 2016 14:11:42 GMT -5
I believe 2018 Saige Kaahaaina-Torres from 2015 USA HP Youth National Training Block and 2015 USA HP Select A1 team was leaning heavily towards Missouri. She's a setter. It also seems I heard someone else from the A1 team was leaning that way too but I don't remember. Sorry
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Post by wishinwestcoastvb on Jan 29, 2016 14:42:12 GMT -5
Really talented undersized 2018 OH has visited Mizzou. Her name is Allison Denneman out of Circle City Volleyball Club. She's about 5'9" and jumps out of the gym. She has been dominating at the 17 Open level. She's a perfect L2, could be a player like Kan.
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Post by curiousvolleyballdad on Jan 29, 2016 15:02:02 GMT -5
Her stats are very impressive.
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Post by curiousvolleyballdad on Jan 29, 2016 15:02:36 GMT -5
Anyone else on the radar for 2018?
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Post by vbphilsdad on Feb 1, 2016 10:11:42 GMT -5
I believe 2018 Saige Kaahaaina-Torres from 2015 USA HP Youth National Training Block and 2015 USA HP Select A1 team was leaning heavily towards Missouri. She's a setter. It also seems I heard someone else from the A1 team was leaning that way too but I don't remember. Sorry That would be good timing. I don't think any highly-rated setter should bother with Mizzou until after the 2017 season.
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Post by missourifan on Feb 1, 2016 14:18:45 GMT -5
Really talented undersized 2018 OH has visited Mizzou. Her name is Allison Denneman out of Circle City Volleyball Club. She's about 5'9" and jumps out of the gym. She has been dominating at the 17 Open level. She's a perfect L2, could be a player like Kan. MU must like those undersized outsides. This girl can play but not like Kan. Interesting to see if MU is getting anymore from China in the next couple years.
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Post by curiousvolleyballdad on Feb 3, 2016 14:44:30 GMT -5
What about Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, etc.? Why aren't they getting those players?
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Post by vbphilsdad on Feb 3, 2016 16:11:03 GMT -5
What about Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, etc.? Why aren't they getting those players? International recruiting is highly dependent on staff, and previous recruiting success. Mizzou has had Chinese staff for years, and is only recently returning to Chinese recruits after a hiatus. Arkansas had Pulliza, and he recruited heavily from Puerto Rico.
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Post by curiousvolleyballdad on Feb 3, 2016 16:16:49 GMT -5
I meant players from those states.
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Post by 5280volleyball on Feb 3, 2016 22:00:58 GMT -5
Wayne and Susan Kreklow have been recruiting Chinese talent since their days at Columbia College. They're great coaches, but they need to look at what they're doing with their current recruiting.
Mizzou got lucky that Molly Kreklow is Wayne and Susan's niece. That gave them a pair of top end players (with Lisa Henning), Kan made it 3, and they filled around them with good role players. 2014 was a pretty magical year where all the pieces fell into place.
The prep volleyball thread talking about all the KC talent shows how Mizzou didn't capitalize on that season. That was the shot to get all the KC girls into Tiger volleyball. Instead, they're heading to Stanford and other top programs. Volleyball has become a national sport, and those top KC players know they can play just about anywhere they want. Mizzou has great fan support, they're on TV all the time, but something isn't right.
Any top end player in Missouri or Kansas who wants to stay close to home is trying to go to Nebraska, or if they are in eastern Missouri, Illinois. The Big 10 is a great league and the girls know that success there leads to professional opportunities and recognition.
I remember when Missouri's football team started getting good. They brought in some great underrated talent from Texas, but many of the key players (Tony Temple, Jeremy Maclin, Chase Coffman, Colin Brown, William Moore, Tim Barnes, William Franklin, Martin Rucker) were Missouri kids that they got to stay home.
Columbia is in a perfect location where the Kreklows should be able to easily lure top Missouri talent. The fact that they can't is problematic, and something they need to fix with these class of '17 and '18 girls. The playing time will be there with Kan, Larson, and just about everyone else gone. But the coaches need to convince these girls that playing for Mizzou is the right decision.
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Post by vbphilsdad on Feb 4, 2016 10:29:49 GMT -5
They have been recruiting from Missouri: LA armendariz, Thater, A Kreklow, Towler, Peltier, Deeken, Ely, Meek, Henning, Brimmage, Bodenstab, hayes, Pip Armendariz, Buchanan were all MO recruits in past 5/6 years. many rom KC area, notably Henning. The problem might be too many MO "non-top" recruits. Recruiting in your backyard rarely yields quality. Besides, joining the SEC hasn't helped (like it did football). Locals' family won't want just 10 home dates to see their kids. and SEC-region players rather stay in South. Big-12 schools were much closer.
The team has not been very diverse for the last 5 years between Brimmage and Munlyn; that is improving despite the race troubles although one Chicago recruit almost backed-out over it.
MO recruits are not the answer; their best players have rarely been Missourians (Kreklow, Henning, Hunter, Kan, Little, Ampudia and the Chinese).
btw, 2013 was their great year, not 2014. 2014 was a horrid year, as was 2012. 2016???
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Post by curiousvolleyballdad on Feb 4, 2016 13:53:07 GMT -5
It does have a lot to do with the quality of the recruits. There are quality players in surrounding states. How do they keep them local and not lose them to Penn State, Texas, etc
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Post by Longhorn20 on Mar 25, 2016 12:14:30 GMT -5
Dariana Hollingsworth, OH/RS, 6'1", from Peruto Rico is Missouri's first 2017 recruit.
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Post by vbgirls2 on Mar 27, 2016 7:34:42 GMT -5
Word is Dariana cancelled visits to Nebraska and Kansas in selecting Missouri
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Post by macclubcoach on Apr 12, 2016 15:59:17 GMT -5
It does have a lot to do with the quality of the recruits. There are quality players in surrounding states. How do they keep them local and not lose them to Penn State, Texas, etc I don't think it matters who you are, if you're a top recruit from MO/Kan, are you gonna choose Mizzou over Penn State, Texas, Nebraska? No, and Mizzou is my alma mater. This isnt' hard.
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