Zero stars,horrible experience,rude stuff.
Before trying out for this club, my daughter and I had high expectations in so far as to the degree of professionalism that we had. Unfortunately, our experience proved otherwise.
As soon as my daughter got into the gym for the try outs, the coaches separated the girls into two distinct groups. While composing the first group, the coaches knew the girls by their first names. After the coaches picked the girls whose names they knew, they told 'the rest of the group' to join the second court. The most peculiar and uncomfortable portion of this situation was that there was no way for the coaches to know the names of the girls that were trying out (since all of them are identified by numbers, with no correlation to their actual names). The only viable conclusion that such a team picking unfolds is the fact that the coaches separated the girls, during this 'open' try out by the girls who they knew vs all of the girls who were actually trying out/new to the program.
Such a separation of teams would have been acceptable if the coaches provided equal attention to both teams. But, as the try outs unfolded, it became bluntly obvious that the coaches were only focusing and analyzing the girls that they knew by first names/originally picked. While the try outs were supposed to run between 1:30pm-3:30pm, the 'rest of the group' , who the coaches did not give any attention to, were dismissed at 2:50pm.
This type of service from the coaches exemplifies a few things. First, the fact that the tryouts were meant as a simple way to make money for Eclipse. Since the coaches predetermined the team that they wanted (blatantly obvious via the separation of the teams by name/'the rest ' and the time that was allocated to each of the different teams), the only reason such a try out was held was to seem more fair and open, when in reality, the only thing they wanted to do was simply make money .
The second major thing that such an experience provides is a great lesson for my child, who noticed this type of behavior.
Team sports are supposed to teach children about how to communicate in groups, about hard work, and fairness. The experience that my daughter had during a tryout for a volleyball team at Eclipse was the exact opposite of the true purpose of team sports.
Immediately following this try out, I wrote an email to the director Dan Zhang, who did not even bother answering back. Following this experience, I will never recommend such a lousy organization to any of my friends. The coaches of Eclipse should be ashamed of how their personal preferences affect girls who are proactively trying to better themselves not only as volleyball players, but as teenagers. HORRIBLE. read more
