At USA South, we understand tryouts to be an important first step in establishing a relationship between the players and the club. Since we seek a professional and positive relationship with our athletes and families we take club tryouts seriously. We hope to provide a positive environment in which each athlete receives a fair and equal evaluation of their skills and allows them to excel and give their best effort. Whether or not a particular athlete decides to join our club we believe they will emerge from our tryout experience understanding more about what our club's culture, style of volleyball and the skills we are looking for in a player as well as the support of a continued positive self-image by each student athlete we work with.

USA South will coordinate and do our best to select tryout dates that do not conflict with tryout dates of other clubs. As we provide the top teams and training in Southwest Florida it is important to us that girls who try out and do not make a USA South team have the ability to play for another local club and develop their skills. We support the Florida Region in recommending parents and players fairly evaluate their different options when selecting a club. In addition many clubs like to force girls into committing to a club team immediately after tryouts. Per the Florida Region guidelines a club can not commit a girl to a team until December 1st of that year. We feel that if another club is not allowing your daughter to try out for another team and is requesting immediate commitment then the family should do more research into the program that club is offering. The over-riding objectives are to find the right fit for each student athlete and provide teams that afford each of them their best opportunity to compete and improve.

Athlete Evaluation Process
During the tryouts at USA South we use drills and playing situations which we believe allows the athlete to show us their abilities in all areas and allows for equal time with the coaches.

The tryouts are conducted according to age groups to allow sufficient time for our coaching staff to evaluate in a personal and thorough manner.

Both club directors and team coaches lead tryout sessions. These sessions will have much of the same feel and organization of regular season practices.

As a general guideline, prospective athletes are strongly encouraged to attend the tryout session for their age group and team they are interested in playing for. Please contact us if your are unable to attend a scheduled tryout session as we would like to schedule a make-up session for an additional fee.

Team Selection and Athlete Notification Process
Athletes are selected for teams by team coaches and club directors with input from all members of the coaching staff. The club director has the final say when it comes to members of all teams.

While we work to establishing the best team we can at each age group we understand that it is impossible to offer every athlete at our tryouts a spot with USA South.

We will do our best to determine team selection as early as possible. We ask you remain patient as a great deal of time and effort goes into the selection process.

A member of the coaching staff will contact each athlete who participates tryouts. At that point we will:

1) Offer you a position on the team

2) Tell you that we need more time to determine your placement

3) Notify you that we do not have a position for you

Athlete Commitment Guidelines
We hope that you will commit to USA South if offered a position on one of our teams.

We understand that choosing the right club can often be difficult. We hope that our athletes and families have done their research and are prepared to make a decision when offered a position.

We do not want to pressure anyone into joining a club but we also have to make sure that we are able to establish a team and make it fair for the other athletes who are making a commitment. All athletes will have 48 hours to accept the position. A longer decision time can be requested if that postponement is requested to it allow the student athlete to try out for another program.

In the event you decide to not accept the position please be prepared to let us know as soon as possible so we can offer that position to another deserving athlete.

If you do not get offered a position or chose to not accept each athlete is still able to take advantage of our supplemental programs and training.

We will officially introduce and sign all of our athletes at our USA South Kick Off Meeting. Please keep the following in mind as you approach your club tryout

We at USA South are committed to providing the best experience possible for all our athletes.

Our mission is to develop and train the top volleyball players in the area.

It is our intent through the tryout process to provide the athlete with the best possible environment upon which they can demonstrate their ability and fit in our program.

Members of our staff will actively communicate with athletes and families throughout the tryout process.

We maintain the highest level of integrity and do not give preferential treatment to athletes from any specific school or program.