Volleyball Commitment

Volleyball Club Commitment . . .

Not Your Daughter’s . . . YOURS!

By: K.W. Abbott 

Does your daughter want to play club volleyball on a national or regional level? Before you insist on your daughter being committed to the sport, you need to ask yourself if you as a parent are committed. Club volleyball on a national or regional level is not a recreational, a couple of one hour practices a week, games located up the street situation. This is a serious time and financial commitment that you as parents must be COMPLETELY COMMITTED to seeing through:

*volleyball tuition expense ($2,000 - $3,000)

*travel expense to tournaments

 *lodging and meal expense during tournaments

 *volleyball equipment and uniform expense

*travel expense to practices

*2 -5 day out of town or in town tournaments

*5 - 9 hours per week of practice, conditioning , and skills training

*additional group, semi-private or private sessions

Are you tired and broke yet?? Can you hang with the volleyball agenda on a national or regional level? Are you on board?? It is not for everyone; and if you as a parent cannot support your volleyball player through this 6-7 month journey, then don’t. If you have no way of obtaining the financial resources to fund this journey nor the time to make sure your volleyball player is an active participant on her team, then don’t do it! Everyone will be stressed, broke and unhappy out and it will be a miserable experience for everyone. EXCEPTION . . . There is always and exception isn’t there??

If your volleyball player has collegiate level potential and they love the game and want to play in college, you as her parent need to find a way to make this volleyball experience happen for her. You can only do what you can do, but more of an effort needs to be made to make their volleyball dreams a reality. If volleyball is your’s child’s ticket to get into college, the time and financial commitment is worth trying to work out (i.e., fund raise, car pool, get other friends and family involved, etc.). It takes a village, right?? Have no shame! It is your child’s future after all . . . So side out for village volleyball and the rewards for you and the rewards will be plentiful for your volleyball player and will be more than you could have ever hoped for!