Training Schedules

For our Elite Teams, players and parents should expect 2 and 1/2 hour practices twice during the week and one Saturday practice when the team is not playing in a tournament. For the Travel Teams, players and parents should expect 2 and 1/2 hour practices with one practice during the week and one Saturday practice when the team is not at a tournament. For Limited Travel teams, players and parents should expect 2 hour practices with one during the week and one Saturday practice when the team is not at a tournament.

Friday evenings are currently anticipated to be open for team travel or make-up practices as needed. Sunday afternoons will be allocated for position-specific clinics, make-up practices, or additional conditioning if scheduled.

Example Competition Schedules

The tournament model schedules below represent examples of the kinds of tournaments that our teams will be playing, but MAY NOT EXACTLY represent either the actual schedule or the actual number of tournaments each team will play. In general, Memphis Juniors teams have played between 6 and 8 tournaments during the January to April tournament 'regular season.' We expect and encourage our teams, especially our Elite Teams, to play 'post-season' events where the competitive level is high and player & team development accelerates. For example, teams participating in National Invitationals or National Championships held in June will practice in May to prepare

Clearly, some of the Elite Teams may choose to play a number of tournaments at the higher end of that range, and more competitive events at farther distances. The Limited Travel Teams will likely play a fewer number of events, but will still travel to a few tournaments in the Delta or nearby Regions. Every team will have the opportunity to travel to a tournament. Examples of one-day out-of-town tournaments would include Delta Region events in and around Little Rock and Southern Region events in Nashville or Huntsville. A two-day out-of-town tournament would be something like a Southern Region event in Birmingham or the Central Zone or Bluegrass PreQualifier. Three-day events are the USAV Qualifiers (MEQs, Crossroads, Lone Star) or Cajunland in New Orleans. Our Elite Teams are likely to play two qualifiers at minimum. As usual, we will seek to fit the tournament schedule to a team's desires and competitive level. We will also emphasize traveling as a club, with several teams attending most tournaments for support and camaraderie.