jkwhite17

It can work. You just need to coaches to start seeing the big picture andnot just their team. These kind of things take a lot of politicking. People have to be swayed away from their small vision to see the large one. Southeast Texas will never consistently compete with bigger city volleyball until people realize this. Its hard to take a high school team with a few small club players and beat out a Houston team where the entire starting lineup plays for a big club. Enough said.

I'm a young coach about to move back to close to home (originally from Vidor), and this is the kind of thing I was hoping to hear from people in southeast Texas.  I have coached volleyball the past 2 years in Lake Charles at Barbe High School and for Lake Area Elite, a club here in town.  I just got a job teaching at West Brook High School (coaching is still up in the air), but I want so bad to coach in a good club.  What I think it would take is for all the club programs in the area (Hardin County Juniors, Jefferson County Juniors, Orange County Juniors, PBX, Spindletop, Tri-City Heat) to get together and make one big club.  In my opinion, all of these clubs are actually hurting the volleyball game in the area because the girls are not getting to play with their level of ability.  The mixture of talent levels slows the development of the girls.  The best should play with the best so they can improve at the pace of which they are capable, and then the next best group, etc.  That is how the better clubs do things, and they have tons of teams and tons of talent.  Coaches just have to stop focusing on their high school team, and focus more on volleyball in setx as a whole.  There could easily be a Southeast Texas Volleyball Association in the area much like Galveston has their GCVA.  Anyone who agrees with me or would like to talk more please reply or email.