A belated comment on something i posted ages ago about all the stuff I was reading in the papers on Haileybury.
Lookes like the honours school that appeared out of nowhere has a good bunch of home-grown players, and will playing at that level for quite some time. With a more even spread of talent in Vic schools, the school’s cup there seems less predicable than ours here. to get into honours once is great. to get in again with another group is even better and proves that it wasn’t just a fluke. it’s sad to see that some of the early AVSC winners aren’t around anymore. You want to be able to keep building on the successes you have.
For the record, I’ve always been a fan of scholarships. After all, my folks were always big fans of getting us the best education that (someone else’s) money could buy. The hoity toity private school i went to never let us have a volleyball team. They probably more interested in putting another rowing boat in the ater (they had like 20 of them and the tightarses couldn’t give us a damn volleyball team! and yes, i’m still bitter about this). So Haileybury’s got one up on where i went to in my books!
With a bit of luck, maybe our U16 girls team will qualify for honours this year (our own state school’s cup is on this weekend) and get the chance to play Haileybury in Melbourne. But with some pretty skilled teams in our division to qualify, it’s going to take a bit of work. I hope we can say we’ve qualify for honours this time next week too.
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hi.
i would just like to say, that as a haileybury student, i am sick and tired of people’s abuse of our volleyball program. all this stuff about poaching players and not developing any themselves is a load of lies.
when i was 13, i entered the world of volleyball, and fell in love. i had no clue about the game, and my coach’s had shown me everything. i have been at this school since year five, and i cop abuse from people of all ages about the alleged poachings.
i myself think that if a elite grammar school offers your child a scholarship, then you would be crazy not to accept. everybody is calling us selfish, ,but we are giving these young people oppurtunities that they may never have had.
it makes me soo mad when people shine a negative light on my school.
and just to prove them wrong, our u/16 honors team just won a gold medal at state school champs, with no girls who are on a volleyball scholarship.
go figure…
