Maybe it's time again to post this year's (adn maybe next year's) class and where they are committed to play.

Here's what I could find or know of. One more huge signing will be announced shortly.

What is funny is I read in the Buff New 3 pages of ALL WNY Basketball coverage for the Buffalo area and all these list of athletes......not one girl or boy going DI that I could find?


NFVB
Christine Foest Notre Dame 12 Indiana Tech - NAIA
Bridget Shanahan Royhart 12 WYOMING DI
Rachel Stoklosa Frontier 12 SIENA DI
Lauren Metzger North Tonawanda L XAVIER DI
Heather Feldman Eden 12 GARDNER WEBB DI
Natalie Meyer Orchard Park 12 Yes
Anna King Eden 12 AMERICAN U. DI
Kendall Pierce Eden OH 11 PENN STATE DI

Paradigm
Kym Gordon Canandaigua 12 Akron DI

VFX
Amanda Sedore Webster Schroeder 12 Niagara U DI
Hannah Dolan Nazareth /Aquinas 12 Stony Brook DI
Selina Schirmer Pittsford Sutherland 12 Samford U DI
Laura Hathaway Warsaw 12 Stony Brook DI
Elizabeth Scott Canandaigua 12 UB DI

<i>Originally posted by jet</i>

Here's what I could find or know of. One more huge signing will be announced shortly.

What is funny is I read in the Buff New 3 pages of ALL WNY Basketball coverage for the Buffalo area and all these list of athletes......not one girl or boy going DI that I could find?


NFVB
Christine Foest Notre Dame 2011 IN Tech NAIA
Bridget Shanahan Royhart 2011 WYOMING DI
Rachel Stoklosa Frontier 2011 SIENA DI
Lauren Metzger North Tonawanda 2011 XAVIER DI
Heather Feldman Eden 2011 GARD-WEBB DI
Natalie Meyer Orchard Park 2011 RIT? DIII
Anna King Eden 2011 AMERICAN U. DI
Natalie Southard City Honors 2011 Case-Western DIII

Kendall Pierce Eden 2012 PENN STATE DI

Paradigm
Kym Gordon Canandaigua 2011 Akron DI

VFX
Amanda Sedore Web-Schroeder 2011 Niagara U DI
Hannah Dolan Aquinas 2011 Stony Brook DI
Selina Schirmer Pitt-Sutherland 2011 Samford U DI
Laura Hathaway Warsaw 2011 Stony Brook DI
Elizabeth Scott Canandaigua 2011 UB DI

Don't forget:

Telauna Dejoop- Marshall HS 2011 Mississppi St DI

Who?

NFVB
Christine Foest Notre Dame 2011 IN Tech NAIA
Bridget Shanahan Royhart 2011 WYOMING DI
Rachel Stoklosa Frontier 2011 SIENA DI
Lauren Metzger North Tonawanda 2011 XAVIER DI
Heather Feldman Eden 2011 GARD-WEBB DI
Natalie Meyer Orchard Park 2011 RIT? DIII
Anna King Eden 2011 AMERICAN U. DI
Natalie Southard City Honors 2011 Case-Western DIII
Jenelle Tabyzinski Lancaster 2011 UB DI
Lindsay Nowak Immaculata 2011 Daeman NAIA
Christine Gibbons Nardin 2011 Nortre Dame (Club)

Sarah Horvath Immaculata 2010 Siena Transfer to UB DI

Kendall Pierce Eden 2012 PENN STATE DI

Paradigm
Kym Gordon Canandaigua 2011 Akron DI

VFX
Amanda Sedore Web-Schroeder 2011 Niagara U DI
Hannah Dolan Aquinas 2011 Stony Brook DI
Selina Schirmer Pitt-Sutherland 2011 Samford U DI
Laura Hathaway Warsaw 2011 Stony Brook DI
Elizabeth Scott Canandaigua 2011 UB DI

Katja Schirmer Pitt Sutherland 2010 UNH transfer to UB DI

Telauna D. is a senior at Marshall High School. She actually only played in 2 matches this fall. It took all 3 years of high school and a couple months this fall to even get her on the court. She is 6-5 and probably touches around 10-3. Mississippi St. offered her a scholarship on pure potential!

Amazing! Awesome for her. Good luck.

She saved a lot of money over the years on club fees and travel costs!

Well, if you're female, 6'5", possessing of extraordinary hops and seriously superior athleticism, that may be the way to go. But if not, for those who even want to play in college these days, I'd suggest the club route.

Besides, acquiring the athletic schollie is one thing, possessing the tools to navigate the choppy waters of D-I athletics is another. A good club program will help you develop the kind of relentless fight, ability to accept and overcome adversity, and endurance you'll need to survive, let alone thrive. Let's hope this girl can figure it all out, but with apparently little background in highly competitive sports, it might be an awakening on more than one level.

To the last point, a good club program will also provide a support network for these kids even after they leave. The relationships these kids form with some of their club coaches and teammates prove invaluable in the years to come. Clubs often get kids coming back during breaks-or texting, emailing, calling-looking for guidance or just a much needed boost of confidence. A mother of a former player told me recently that her daughter, now at a D-I school, struggled with self-doubt and the rigors of preseason (which is particularly brutal at this school) so much that she comtemplated quitting. She didn't simply because she did not want to disappoint a couple of club coaches in her past. And now, of course, she is very glad she stuck with it.

Who needs parents, relatives, non-volleyball friends, religion, etc. if you have club volleyball?

I love watching and playing volleyball but it is just a tiny piece of the puzzle. I hope.

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Who needs parents, relatives, non-volleyball friends, religion, etc. if you have club volleyball?

I love watching and playing volleyball but it is just a tiny piece of the puzzle. I hope.
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Ok, Aged. Now you're just being ignorant. You just took a very honest and sensible offering of what a club experience can do for a kid looking to play college vball, and responded in a way that shows you know nothing of the subject.

Of course, family and friends are important, but you obviously know nothing of what being on scholarship at a D-I school means. Often times, parents and friends know little of the demands and complications of that world, and therefore can offer little help or advice. And to say that in this girl's case, volleyball will be "just a tiny piece of the puzzle" is erroneous. She's on SCHOLARSHIP!! It's a HUGE part of her going there. I mean would a kid from Marshall HS in Rochester be going to Mississippi State if it weren't for the vb scholarship!!?? Ahhh...never mind.

I'm trusting Aged was being sarcastic? At least I'm hoping.

Hey if you've got scholarships aplenty and can offer them to someone solely on potential, that must be a pretty nice freakin life.

Yeah, I would say club volleyball helps prepare a girl for the speed of the game, the increased demands etc. But in reality, a really well run high school program can serve as great preparation too, especially if they run tough 2/3 a day preseasons.

Travel though- if your college travels, you become much more used to that in club- or at least have an opportunity to. Much more rare in HS.

Thanks for the clarification on the girl from Marshall- good luck to her.

By the way-

Premiere-
Judy Schultz- Hilton HS- 2011- Roberts Wesleyan
Taylor Melidon- WI HS - 2011- Cal U (Pennsylvania)
Chelsea Beecher- Albion - 2011- Naz
Alyssa Staino - Brockport - 2011- Potsdam

I heard the Chance sisters played high school volleyball and did not participate in club volleyball. They both received D-1 scholarships from astonished college coaches attending their high school practices. Yes, Slim & None did very well for themselves.

According to prepvolleyball.com, add NFVB's Nikki Attea to the list of commitments: Maryland Terps, 2012.

Congrats to Nikki.