Too often we feel kids and parents are misinformed and led to believe that participation in many sports makes you better in a single sport, this is a direct contradiction to motor learning and would be rejected by most educated athletic trainers/coach or teacher, It is like saying a student gets better at French by learning Spanish.  If you want to get better at language then obviously you study that language, same applies to a specific sport, if you want to get better, you must be willing to do more of that sport.  An athletic study conducted by Savelsbergh and Van Der Kamp (2000) echoes what you just read; "specificity of training is required in order to get meaningful learning effects."

Based on this research we have established a volleyball club in Hurricane Valley to assist young women and (in January 2009) young men in enhancing their ability as volleyball players.  Currently over 75% of the Hurricane High volleyball girls are playing club volleyball and the numbers are equal or higher for most high performing HS volleyball program across Utah, NV, WY, CA and Idaho.  Throughout the club season college recruiters (based on NCAA evaluation periods) are able to view players and get acquainted with their abilities; much of college scholarships are earned by players that participate in club volleyball, and no player from Hurricane has ever earned a volleyball scholarship that was not a club participant dating back to at least 2002 when club volleyball began to really establish itself throughout Utah.  WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE CLUB IF YOU WANT TO PURSUE A COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL SCHOLARSHIP OR BECOME A TOP PERFORMING HS PLAYER.