TeeterTot

I've been traveling a lot for work and haven't been able to post much. I have talked to several people about the current travel volleyball environment in middle Tennessee and they are under the same impression as most of us: TPV will be the "go to club" within in two years, maybe next year. Parents are not happy with how things are going and have already reached out to TPV about next year. This years migration of players along with the head to head results have caught the attention of several parents across all age groups who were not open to changing in the past. Will certainly be interesting to see what happens

Both bad losses. There were a couple players who were off their game during the weekend for sure, especially the loss to Kiva. They beat the same Kiva team fairly easily in the last game,

so the "small" chance went to the "slim to no" chance. Thanks for the info

Looks like it was a tough weekend for Alliance in Indy this past weekend. 13's had the best finish with a 9th. 16's had the worst finish with a 24th place finish with all the rest finishing in the teens. Alliance and TPV 15's & 16's will be in Muncianna this weekend in the same tournament so there's a small chance we see these two clubs play again very soon.

I'm very curious how Alliance families are feeling about their club after this weekend. From the results its obvious TPV has closed talent gap. When Alliance parents walked into "AGame" they had to feel like they've been screwed the past couple season in regards to how "AGame" was maintained. "AGame" has not looked that good in 10+ years. Coaches, talent, facilities.......TPV seems to be doing it right.

The TPV 16 Alpha absolutely has a chance to win some national tournaments. The errors they had this weekend are errors most teams are trying to clean up in March. It'll be fun to see how far the girls go. The middle from siegel will be very good, she has very little experience and seems to get better every week. There are two middles and one setter, besides those three girls, the coach can move any girl to any position. Both sides of the pins have excellent hitters, they can attack from any point on the court.

And open zoning

same thing applies as long as the legal guardian moved

If parents move a certain distance or more from their previous school, I believe that student does not have to sit out. 9th graders can play if they transferred in during the summer.

Congratulations to Shaye Eggeslton for being named to unapproved website Sophomore All-American Team.

I didn't get to see much of the 18's due to the schedule. The 16's took it to KiVA Red in the first match. KiVA's first 7 shots where cleanly blocked, several more blocks after that......completely changed how KiVA played. Muciana 16's were next and they are good. They beat TPV but it wasn't by much. TPV was exchanging blows but Munciana was a better team. Last game was against Far Out from Grand Rapids and TPV handled them like they did KiVA. The Saturday training was ran by the Munciana coach and I've never seen training like it. 90 minutes of up tempo, hard practice, sit for 90 minutes, then do it again and again. Was supposed to replicate tournament play where you play then sit then play.

Salty!

Thanks for the clarification. Big training session this weekend in Munciana this weekend for TPV 16's and 18's. Sunday they scrimmage Munciana's 1 and 2 teams, Munciana out of Indy, KiVA Red, and Far Out.

I know 5 of the 8 players moved from Alliance, not sure about the other 3

13's - Nobody in the state can touch Alliance's 13's. This team has won several regional tournaments the past couple years and finished 3rd twice last year in large National tournaments. They even won Bluegrass as 11's 14's K2, no competition. TPV just does not have hitters at this age 15's - Agree with Memphis VBA with K2 a very close 2nd. Be interesting to see how Alliance does this year. Their top player moved to TPV and plays on the TPV 16's 16's - TPV will give K2 a serious run here. I disagree with Alliance having a ball control advantage over TPV. Alliance lost to TPV their best hitter, defensive player (Both these girls will play in college power conferences), both setters from their 1 team last year are no longer in the program (the 6'4 setter went to TPV and their 2nd setter decided not to play this year). 17's - Alliance 18's - Alliance

Now that you proved your a stalker who lives on CoachT (11,000+ posts, geez), whats the point you're trying to make about volleyball? You have an issue with female sports? I don't see the correlation. Please explain

And the Maryville administration will do what it takes to have the best player$........that Alcoa doesn't get.

This post didnt age very well

To me, being in the gold medal brackets on Sundays and some top 5, maybe top 10 finishes in National tournaments is the "National" goal. TPV is still behind in every age group except for the 16's. The influx of new players at that age group has elevated that team beyond anything TPV had last year. This years TPV 16 is the first TPV team that could beat their counterparts at Alliance.

Interesting to keep an eye on. New clubs popping up everywhere. Atlanta has enough talent to allow two big times clubs compete at the national level. I'm not sure Nashville does.

Time for big girl volleyball

I don't think a blanket statement can be made about why theses young ladies decided to move. I would say they all have their own reasons.

No. I didn't say offers. I said "have power conference schools looking at them." I've been told she's received letters from Big 10 and ACC schools. Far from offers but worth noting.

TPV gained the best 16 y/o hitter and defensive player in the state (possibly in the south). The tallest 16 y/o setter who is getting big time college looks. The best 15 y/o outside hitter in the state (possibly the best right side in the south) who i heard could be playing on that 16 y/o team too. That's four players who moved that have power conference schools looking at them.

If TPV backs up what they told those girls (different way of training, a tougher TPV schedule), there will be an even larger exodus to TPV next year. It's up to Dan and his team to deliver because the spotlight just got brighter.