About Steve Hagenlocher Expertise I am a Division I women`s vollegball coach. I have been coaching at the college level for the past eleven years. I am also teaching and coaching at the high school level and I have been doing so for the past sixteen years. In my spare time I;ve coach 11-12 year old girls in the CYO. I am also a certified high school referee for both varsity boys and girls. I have over 250 drills in my drill book and I believe I can be most helpful answering questions about running certain offenses and defenses.
Experience BS in Physical Education St Francis College 83
MS in Physical Education Brooklyn College 93
Expert: Steve Hagenlocher Date: 12/22/2007 Subject: Club volleyball
Question QUESTION: I play for the 16-1 eden mizuno club team and i am the back up setter. I am though only 14 right now and turning 15 in april. I am playing one year up. I was wondering if you would think i would be able to play as a D1 setter? I am 5'8'' right now as a freshman in high school. I also was the starting setter for my high school varsity team. My father said it would be hard for me because i am only going to be around 6 foot. What do you think?
ANSWER: Tyler,
6" is a good height for a setter. Taller would get more coaches looking at you but 6' is fine. If you look at this months Volleyball magazine I think there is an article in it about the Hofstra's setter who I believe is around 5'3" (I'm not 100% sure because I read it fast) but you could go to Hofstra's web site and look at the roster.
If you have good hands and you can jump you will get looked at. I never want to say someone's father is wrong (because I am a father and my daughter always thinks I'm wrong) but I believe he is wrong here. If you are Division I material (meaning hands, set selection, defense etc.......the whole package) you will get looked at. I doubt you will play at Penn State or Stanford but someone will see you.
Good Luck,
Steve
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QUESTION: thank you. I was also wondering if you need good grades to get in to a D1 school?
Answer Tyler,
You need to get to the NCAA minimum SAT and GPA scores. The old scale was a 820 SAT (Math and English only) and a GPA on 14 core classes of a C+. Now there is a sliding scale that you can find on the NCAA web site.
The better you are the more schools will look at you. The better your grades the more schools will want to recruit you.
If you have the bare minimum you will not get into many schools because their admissions department will not except you (just like all other incoming freshman). Some schools will bend a little but if you want to play DI you should work at getting good grades and a 1050-1200 SAT score.
