NEWSLETTER

February 19th, 2016


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Front Range Volleyball Club
8480 Upland Drive Suite 100, Englewood CO, 80112 Phone: 303-770-9435

Important Dates

Regular Practice Schedule - Click here.

2016 Competition Schedule - Click here.

21 February - Power 3 Even (12 Pink) Regis University

24 February - Start of Crossroads Set Up

27-29 February - Crossroads Qualifier (17's and 16's)

4-6 April - Crossroads Qualifier (15's, 14's, 13's and 12's)


FRVBC Olympian Summer Camp


Omaha President's Day Tournament

Results

FRVBC Final Finishes at Asics Presidents Day Classic in Omaha.

Congratulations to 15 White (Pictured above) on their 3rd place finish of the 56 teams in 15 Club! Other FRVBC finishes:

17 Silver 17th out of 20 teams in 17 Open.
16 Blue 40th out of 56 teams in 16 Club.
15 Cardinal 33rd out of 56 teams in 15 Club.
14 Amber 27th out of 60 teams in 14 Club.
14 Royal 51st out of 60 teams in 14 Club.


Colorado Crossroads News

Colorado Crossroads Guest Registration for Week 1 is LIVE! Register now so you don't have to wait in the registration line on the first day of play. Pick up available on Friday, Feb. 26 from 2 pm to 6 pm at both the Convention Center (look for the "Pickup Online Registration Entry Wristbands" in Lower Lobby A) or go the the Denver Pavilions.
https://coloradocrossroads.org/2016-colorado-crossroads


Top 50 Recruiting Tips

Over the past few newsletters we have been sharing the top 50 recruiting tips from the NCSA Athletic Recruiting website. Here are the last 10. If you want to see the full list it can be found at here.

Parents may also be interested in reading this thought provoking article on how evaluating parents is also becoming an important part of the recruiting process! Click here.

41 Make the most of official visits. Walk around campus, get a feel for the atmosphere. Do the students seem friendly? Can you imagine yourself living here for four years? Meet the team, sit in on a class, watch a practice. Pick a school you’d want to attend even if you weren’t playing sports there.

42 Ask yourself these two questions when considering specific camps:
- Has a coach from the school called me and specifically invited me to the camp?
- Have I had any face-to-face contact with any of the coaches holding the camp?
If the answer to both of these questions is no, the only reason to attend the camp is to build skills or gain experience.

43 When you talk to a coach, always ask these two questions:
- What can I do to have a chance to be recruited for your program and earn a scholarship?
- What is the next step I should take with you personally?

44 Research colleges and get a feel for the different types of campuses. Evaluate a wide range of schools, and understand that bigger is not always better. Division I schools do not always offer better playing time, opportunities, or education than Division III or NAIA schools.

45 Request to ask the coach a few questions, but remember that they’re busy. If the coach doesn’t have time, ask when you can call the coach back. If you call a Division I or II coach before July 1 or June 15 of junior year (depending on sport), they’re not allowed to return your call. If the coach is unavailable, ask the person you speak to when you can reach the coach.

46 You only get one opportunity in your life to go through the recruiting process. Both student-athletes and their families have to be completely committed. High school is about 720 days long, and after that, the recruiting process is over. How will you make the most of this small window of opportunity?

47 What you do off the field is just as important as what you do on it. Excellence in the classroom tells a coach a lot about you, and determines how likely they are to recruit you. Coaches know that good students are more likely to make the most of their abilities, and stay out of trouble.

48 Let your child take the lead in talking to coaches – don’t be a “helicopter parent.” College coaches don’t want to deal with players’ parents, and prying too much into the interactions between the coach and your son or daughter can hurt their chances of being recruited.

49 College coaches usually begin the recruiting process by sending letters and questionnaires to the freshman student-athletes on their lists. Yon can develop relationships by calling, writing, and taking unofficial visits with the coaches. Waiting to connect with a coach might be the biggest mistake you can make! Coaches from DIII and NAIA schools can call you at any time.

50 Only about 6.7% of high school athletes go on to play in college, and only 1.68% will receive an athletic scholarship to an NCAA school. Only 0.98% play on a Division I team. But there are countless non-DI colleges where you can get a world-class education: MIT, NYU, UChicago, and Williams, to name a few. Only about 15% of collegiate athletic opportunities are at the Division I Level. The rest are at the DII, DIII, NAIA, and JUCO.


Alumnae News

We are excited to launch our FRVBC Alumni Group on LinkedIn. If you have played with FRVBC or coached with FRVBC, you are welcome to join this group and reconnect with old teammates and network with other alumni. We are excited to help young professionals from our program continue to pursue excellence in their adult lives. Join today: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7022930

Front Range VBC Parent Channel

Watch This Important Instructional and Safety Video

As many of you are aware we have a 'Parent Channel' on Datfish TV that has many videos to keep our parents in the loop with the way we train our athletes. You should be receiving an email each time a new video is placed on the channel. Some of you have had difficulty viewing these so we have also set up a YouTube channel that contains the same videos. The channel can be viewed by clicking here and we suggest you bookmark and subscribe to it once you have accessed the site.

Front Range Parents and anyone else who will be laying court tile at Crossroads next week must take time to watch the instructional and safety video below that is also on our Parent Channel.

 



Shoe Sale

We have a few pairs of shoes left for sale. The following sizes are available.

Mizuno Wave Lightning ($70.00) - Sizes 6, 7

Mizuno Wave Bolt ($60.00) - Sizes 7.5, 8, 9, 9.5, 10, 10.5, 11

Contact Jen Youngblood or Steve Colpus if you wish to make a purchase


PLEASE NOTE: CHSAA bylaws allow all HS athletes to attend camps/clinics/lessons during their season.

Permission from your Principal need to be sought in cases where HS athletes are seeking to practice or compete with other teams during the HS volleyball season.


FRVBC on Instagram

Front Range Volleyball Club is pleased to announce that we have joined Instagram. Instagram is a free app that allows a user to share photos with followers. We will be posting pictures of our teams throughout the year through this application. Start following us today! Players- please feel free to start tagging yourselves in these photos. http://instagram.com/frvbc Be sure to tag us "@frvbc" when posting pictures at the gym or at competition.

Instagram

Team Reps and Parents - Photogrid is a free app that enables a user to input several pictures into one collage that can then be shared with others through Social Media. This is a great option for parents and players to make collages of tournaments to send to us to be shared using our FRVBC twitter, facebook, and instagram accounts. Please keep this app in min


Remember to "Like" us on Facebook

Please make sure you "Like" our page if you have not already done so and encourage your friends and relatives to do so. Almost 1400 fans already have! It is one of the quickest ways to receive up to the minute FRVBC news, information, team pictures and video. We've also linked our page to Twitter so if you're a "tweeter" you can keep up to date with all our news. Click on the Facebook logo below.


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