Would you consider volleyball to be a career?

Question

teacher would like to know.

Answer 1

As a coach or beach volleyball player, yes.

Other than that, probably not.

Answer 2

Only in coaching. I play university volleyball and after that level the only thing higher is playing for a national team. I am friends with a few guys who play for Canada's National team and they get some funding when they go to competitions and such and when they go for trainign for housing and food. But it is not something they do to make a living for themselves. According to them it is the same in most coutnries, all of these guys on the national team have other jobs for careers and volleyball is something else they do.

Coaching can be a career but it is not like other sports so i don't know if coaches make enough to consider it a career that supports them financially. but it is a job for coaches so i guess you can kind of call it a career.

But no volleyball is not a career for playing it is not like hockey football or baseball etc where that is the only thing they do and make millions, volleyball you don't really make anything

Answer 3

You can make it a career if you become a really good coach or a really good player.

Players can make money by playing in professional leagues in Europe. If they are good enough...

Answer 4

It depends on how good you are. Unless you are really really good, it is not qualitfied as a career. Are you ready to go pro?

Answer 5

if you get paid to play then its a carrer

Answer 6

Yes and No.

There are many volleyball coaches that teach kids at all levels. Many take it very seriously. Many colleges provide coaches with a full time job commitment and if that's something you want to shoot for, go ahead.

As a player, if you are good enough D1 player I mean, you can play overseas for some lucrative money.

If you put your chances like this, you might understand your chances as a high schooler:

An average high school football or basketball program may send 1-3 players every 5 years to a D1 college and that's over estimating and assuming these high schools have great programs. Of those 1-3 players, .8 of them (Yes, less than one) will make it to a pro level. Of course, larger cities with more competition will have larger numbers and averages go up with numbers, but on national average, their chances of playing pro are slim to none.

Now, almost every school in the US has a basketball and football team. Only about 50% of them even have girl's volleyball teams. About 8% have boys volleyball teams.

Now, compare college numbers. College Football D1 schools compared to Women's volleyball schools is about 7 to 1 (Men's something like 20 to 1). That means that there are less college programs looking for quality volleyball players so your chances are even more slim.

Of course, you could always show up to an AVP event and compete for a spot to play in the tournaments, eventually get ranked and travel. But while you might consider that a career, 100% of all pro beach volleyball players in the AVP have regular jobs in the off-season too.

The moral: Make sure you have a backup plan.

Disclaimer: My numbers are all made up so don't use them for homework, I don't have the energy to research them or do any assignment for you :), but my guesses are at least educated.

Get into coaching if you really want a volleyball career. You won't make millions, but what you get out of it is worth more than anything money can buy. And who knows, by the time you get out of school and have experience coaching for a while, maybe they'll give a Pro Volleyball league in the states another go and then you could potentially make the big bucks.