Club South Locations
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Directions to Wofford Gym for Oct. meeting
Re: Clarification about either our Greenville or Spartanburg Location and Programs.
This season we will offer all of our programs and you can choose to practice out of one of 3 locations:
1) Spartanburg will practice out of The Westside Club.
2) Potential Sports Academy, located off Hwy 25, near Donaldson Ctr.
3) Simpsonville Rec ( downtown Simpsonville)
4) The Sports Pavilion, located off Pelham Rd/E.north St-Grvl
Ice skating rink
5) Possible Clemson locations- tentative several tms
Each location will offer all of our programs ( provided we have sufficient numbers to sign up for a specific program).
There has been several questions raised about Travel Team tryouts between Spartanburg and Greenville. Here is an attempt to clear it up and answer the question.
* Tryouts for all locations are help together in Sptbg at WSC. Once tryouts are over, team placement is made based off players who desire to play in that specific location. You are allowed to practice at any location, if it is within your training skill level group.
* If you are unsure what location you want to tryout for, OR you want to be considered for multiple locations, you would still attend tryouts in Sptbg. After tryouts, we would notify you prior to team announcements with probably team placement in each specific location and we would need an answer of location prior to team announcement.
If you do tryout for multiple locations, you will have to notify the club 24 hrs in advance of our team notice deadline. We do this so we know what spots we have before we announce to remaining teams.
TEAM COMPOSURE:
It stands to reason, based on past experience, the teams in Spartanburg will be closer in skill level due to the fact we have about 4 to 5 times the participants signed up for that location verses other locations. If your child desires to play on a national level team.. probably Sptbg will be the answer.
TEAM PLACEMENT: What does that mean for your child:
Example: Lets say in Spartanburg we will offer 5 teams in a specific age division and your child rates out on team 3 after tryouts. In Greenville, there will probably only be one team per age division or possibly combined ages divisions, like 13s & 14s, or 14s & 15s, etc. What this means, you would have closer talented/skilled teams in Sptbg, simply due to the larger numbers and in Greenville a wider range of skill levels per team.
There are pros and cons to both.
For example, the negative, wider range of talent can prove frustrating to the lower level player- to keep up and to the higher level player - frustrating in drill breakdowns or having to run lower skill level drills.
The positive, if you are concerned with a number of a team (1, 2, or 3 Team, etc..) in Greenville, they would mostly like be on 1... guess you can figure out why.
COACHES: Both locations have talented and experienced coaches. None of our coaches are clones.. and all have different talents.. but the training system is similar from what we expect to be taught. For the national teams, Spartanburg will have more national coaches.
Clinics: All free clinics will operate out of Sptbg WSC, but other location players will have access to these clinics.
Clubs: We are all under ONE club- Club South.. we simply are trying to offer the other practice locations as an option for families who can't make the drive to the WSC.
Hope this helps.
