Do I have a chance to make Varsity in Texas for Volleyball?

Question

I'm from New Jersey and have been playing volleyball (outside of school) since I was like 11 in camps and stuff, and have been doing club since I was 13. Now I'm a freshman and made JV and I'm 14. But I'm moving to texas either next year when I'm a sophomore or when I'm a junior in 2 years. I'm worried that.. like are the levels of competition going to be even more fierce than here in NJ? It sucks that NJ (and the east side in general) are still pretty new in the volleyball world, so I dunno are the people from Texas going to be like even more beast than what I've already seen here? I know its years away but its just in the back of my mind. Especially in Dallas, we're going to move around there. Dont know what school though. Its good that volleyball is big there but that just means even more competition, too which is cool but like yeah.. I better make that vball team hah.

Answer 1

There's a lot of good volleyball in Texas.  I've been to quite a few national club volleyball tournaments, and the top teams are usually from Texas, California, Florida and sometimes Minnesota.  It's getting better in NJ, though.

You need to focus on being the best you can be, and when you end up moving to Texas, contact the coaches at your new school and introduce yourself.  Find out everything you can about their program.  Their local paper is most likely online -- find it and read about the volleyball team.  The high school where I coached most recently has a great online publication, and about half of the matches were written up in some detail.  So you can learn a lot about the place you'll move to way before you get there.  

In the meantime -- enjoy your season, learn all you can, and be a good teammate.  

Answer 2

any sport is big in Texas.

but if you go to like a public school when you move and your not a freshman your automatically jv with the chance to move up varsity.

and your question is a bit broad. Texans in general are serious about sports, but the level that you may be playing at varies on what school or what club in which city or town and how developed the team and coaches are. most likely the bigger the city and school the more competitive it will be.