This club is not well run and is all about the money they can make off of parents. We opted to pull our daughter out and do clinics and private lessons and miss club season all together because of how poorly run this club is. In detail, here are the issues we had:

1. Paid $2500 to be on a 15u travel team. Only 6/10 players were 15u. There was a 12u, 13u and two 14u players on the team. One of the 14u players was of appropriate skill level. The other 14u only had one year of club experience. The 12u came from another club that would not play her up an age level and she definitely did not have the skill or court awareness to be even on a 14u travel. Maybe 13u. Her parents wrote a check to mill city and she got placed up 3 age levels and on a travel team.
2. One of the 15u players was actually told she wasn’t good enough to play in the finals brackets of tournaments and would be benched during finals. Yet her play contributed to which bracket we would be placed into.
3. Head coach only attended 1/3 practices a week and even then missed some of those.
4. Asst coach stopped being involved at all with the team after about 2 weeks even though we would see him working with other teams and players.
5. Inconsistency in coaching led to no practice or tournament management consistency
6. Coaches were deadlocked into players positions and not able to shift players to maximize players skills and any of the teams potential leading to the decent players being extremely frustrated.
7. The breaking point was when the coach that was attending practice tried to alter my daughters hitting technique to allow for the shortcomings of the u12 setter that could not set middle. We opted to leave the team so she wouldn’t build bad habits by accommodating a lower level player regularly.
8. One of the good players was approached at a tournament by a coach from a different club and the coach told her that the player shouldn’t be on such a crappy team. That she was better than than the placement she got. When it’s that obvious that’s bad.
9. The only thing they did right was make it easy to leave.

There were red flags at tryouts I should have paid attention to. But they sell a nice picture. “Lifts” promised twice a week are basically 15-20 minutes or so of conditioning with bands and ropes, and wasn’t consistently twice a week. The open gym time is just time to play in the gym. Coaches then seek out their favorite players and basically give them free private lessons on a separate court while the other players at open gym are completely ignored. We were told we were paying for practices but without a consistent coach and when practicing with players well below the anticipated skill level- there was no benefit and actually detriment to the players that were at the appropriate skill level. This team had 4 or 5 appropriate players. Almost all of these parents were disappointed and unhappy with the team and many of them expressed this to the management. They should have not had this team if they didn’t have the number of high quality players they needed, but they wanted to fully monetize their club by taking money from anyone willing to pay. At tryouts they asked everyone if they would play travel. I thought they meant if the player showed the skill. It just meant if the parents were willing to pay.

Their google reviews are padded by the owners relatives and employees of the club. There are at least 8 of the above reviews with quick google searches can be found to be relatives or former teammates or friends of the club director or even just coaches or employees of the club. You can rule out four of them just by looking at the club website and comparing staff names. Some of the people that left good reviews don’t even look like they live in the area. When you can’t rely on credible objective reviews that says something. We definit