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Welp, this post will be about volleyball, so feel free to tune it out.
I assistant coach a college mens team and a high school guys team, as well as head coach a U18 squad. Womens volleyball is so different when compared to mens; I wouldnt really be a great fit. Especially being a middle position-focused coach, I would have to learn completely different systems. Not to mention the rage my girlfriend would have for me coaching college girls.
I started for 4 years as a middle in college and have played for 15+ years so it's a pretty big passion of mine.
Volleyball is pretty big in Canada. Although the American National team is alot better than ours, the University and college leagues in Canada tend to be alot better up here. I was at a clinic that had Hugh McCutcheon (US womens National team coach until 2012) speak and he said that the US had just under 1000 mens full ride scholarships in volleyball in the US in Div 1 compared to like 30,000+ in womens.
Its a sport (especially mens) that has a stigma of being not as masculine as other sports, but it has some of the greatest pure athletes in the world playing. It's not unusual to see guys with 37-40 inch verticals.
Chase Budinger, for example, could have been one of the greatest volleyball players ever had he gone that route instead of going to the NBA.
I assistant coach a college mens team and a high school guys team, as well as head coach a U18 squad. Womens volleyball is so different when compared to mens; I wouldnt really be a great fit. Especially being a middle position-focused coach, I would have to learn completely different systems. Not to mention the rage my girlfriend would have for me coaching college girls.
Volleyball is pretty big in Canada. Although the American National team is alot better than ours, the University and college leagues in Canada tend to be alot better up here. I was at a clinic that had Hugh McCutcheon (US womens National team coach until 2012) speak and he said that the US had just under 1000 mens full ride scholarships in volleyball in the US in Div 1 compared to like 30,000+ in womens.
Its a sport (especially mens) that has a stigma of being not as masculine as other sports, but it has some of the greatest pure athletes in the world playing. It's not unusual to see guys with 37-40 inch verticals.
Chase Budinger, for example, could have been one of the greatest volleyball players ever had he gone that route instead of going to the NBA.
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