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Post by GoldenArks on May 17, 2016 12:53:34 GMT -5
The players themselves (at least as most age divisions, including Youth and Junior) have received their invitations / notifications. They are supposed to respond pretty much immediately, and most do. Then there is the process of accepting (or not) and rolling the alternate invitations down the priority chain. That is happening now. The results will not be posted for the rest of us to enjoy until after this completes. If you want to see last year's, see: www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/High-Performance/HP-Indoor/HP-Programs-and-Events/RostersSo if I read that right, Freshman ('19) and Sophomores ('18) will make up the Youth team and Juniors ('17) and Seniors ('18) will make up the Junior team, correct? Actually, it goes by year born. Youth team will be girls born in 2000 and 2001, Junior team born in 1998 and 1999.
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Post by GoldenArks on May 17, 2016 12:54:20 GMT -5
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Post by norcal on May 17, 2016 13:13:06 GMT -5
So if I read that right, Freshman ('19) and Sophomores ('18) will make up the Youth team and Juniors ('17) and Seniors ('18) will make up the Junior team, correct? In general, yes.
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Post by norcal on May 17, 2016 17:03:01 GMT -5
That is very insightful. That is inside knowledge. Explains a lot. Already partly filtered prior to the tryouts. And--it's not there to create bias, I don't think. I think for coaches without a ton of HP experience, it gives a good quick guideline (hopefully) for what you are seeing. If I'm trying to run a pro team and a farm system--which is what this is...I want to know which kids are progressing--who's getting better, who has plateaued. Again, this is insightful. It removes the curtain on the tryouts. There is an established A1 training team (pro team) and there are others trying out to crack the line-up (farm system). Some girls will move down to the farm system (from A1 to A2) and some will make the pros (up from A2 etc). But, parents need to be realistic. The odds of making the pros without a history will be difficult. Possible, but not the norm. Nothing wrong with this. This is how most tryouts are done for club, etc. There is a base or core of girls and a few added or subtracted. But, in most cases, the pros remain the pros after the tryouts.
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Post by Longhorn20 on May 18, 2016 23:24:34 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2016 23:35:45 GMT -5
Interested in the liberos, no McGraw or Hampton? Did they try out for this team?
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Post by Longhorn20 on May 18, 2016 23:36:21 GMT -5
Interested in the liberos, no McGraw or Hampton? Did they try out for this team? I wondered the same thing
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Post by norcal on May 19, 2016 0:09:34 GMT -5
Interested in the liberos, no McGraw or Hampton? Did they try out for this team? Hampton is actually older. She was Youth last year. USAV goes by calendar year not school grade. So she would be in the Junior age group this year. No knowledge if either tried out.
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Post by ay2013 on May 19, 2016 2:18:20 GMT -5
Interested in the liberos, no McGraw or Hampton? Did they try out for this team? Plenty of top players never go through HP in high school because they don't want to for whatever reason, not because USAV doesn't want them.
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Post by norcal on May 19, 2016 4:06:14 GMT -5
There is a base or core of girls and a few added or subtracted. But, in most cases, the pros remain the pros after the tryouts. I don't doubt that the coaches comments above are true in general for everybody else in HP at A1 and below, but I highly doubt they are true for the 24 selected for the national team tryout. Agree. Youth team is the cream. A1 Select + outstanding non-A1 Select (no history). But, if you the history of rosters, you will notice that the core of Future Select A1 will be become Select A1. The switch over is the Youth team for various reasons discussed earlier (some girls focus on college recruitment camps in July, etc) and additional non-A1 select studs are added.
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Post by wishinwestcoastvb on May 19, 2016 7:13:26 GMT -5
A lot of the girls have been in the pipeline for a while. Warner, Powell, Cole have been previously involved in the program. Then, there are others who have no USAV history but try out for the team and make it.
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Post by kcvbnut on May 19, 2016 9:48:06 GMT -5
About 25% of kids will have a bad birthday for this. Lil'Nut is a 16 and soph but birthday is 11-18-99. Had to try out in the Junior catagory.
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Post by kcvbnut on May 19, 2016 12:39:52 GMT -5
About 25% of kids will have a bad birthday for this. Lil'Nut is a 16 and soph but birthday is 11-18-99. Had to try out in the Junior catagory. It's actually half that. It would be roughly 25% for a one year band (about 3 months out of 12). For a 2 year band you have to add a whole other 12 months and get 3 months out of 24, or 12.5%. My daughter feels your daughters pain, only down one level. well it's a good thing I said about 25% then huh.... kept me from doing the actual math.
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Post by sandman32 on May 19, 2016 13:42:53 GMT -5
Sorry, I tried. I have a spreadsheet which shows the YNTT girls and all their HP Involvement if they have any. There are nine newbees. Melanie Shaffmaster is not new. 2014 HC
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Post by sandman32 on May 19, 2016 13:48:23 GMT -5
One name not on the YNTT which shocks me is Paula Cerame. She has been in the HP program for years and has consistently been one of the best Libero's.
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