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Last night Dh pointed out a story about a local high school volleyball player. She had moved up here just before the season started. Reason he pointed it out was because she moved from our hometown area. Neat.
Kept reading and noticed that they had been driving 1.5 hours 4 days a week for her to play club in IA. Wow. Dad was tired of it. Decided they'd move to WI so she could play up here. Wait, what? Yeah, they literally moved two hours north so she could play volleyball. Went to an open house and bought a house and moved all in like a week. There was a comment about the kids' mandatory yearly overseas trips. Not like, legally required, but like, parents want them to travel or something which I guess is cool. Anyway I'm thinking yikes, I hope the siblings enjoyed their lives being uprooted for this.
Start googling the dad, he's some CEO of a small company. Then DH found the house they bought. I'm like hey, didn't we look at that neighborhood when we went to Parade of Homes a couple years ago? Weren't those the huge fancy homes?
He finds the listing. I'm like wait a second.............turns out it's actually one of the houses we saw. I'll never forget it because it had a special brick oven just for making pizzas (I still want this!) and a catwalk for the ~10 year old daughter's "princess suite". Remember when Hoiberg's Ames house got posted? It's not far off from that.
So yeah. Family uprooted life in a week for teen daughter to play vball up here. I mean, I guess the town they came to is bigger but it's not like it's a huge elite program or anything. Nor does it sound like the girl is super elite (not to be mean, just, if you're going to do all this I guess I was expecting a Lauren Carlini or something).
I'm assuming the move was to play club, here in Iowa you are supposed to have to sit out a year if you purposely move schools for sports (school sports though). There is an elite 14-15yr old player who lives and home schools in Ankeny to be able to play for an elite club out of Omaha. A friend who has a daughter that played on our club 14 A team said when that team played at tournaments there were multiple D1 coaches watching her.