{"id":2017,"date":"2016-07-27T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2016-07-27T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T18:21:17","slug":"teen-volleys-prestigious-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/creekline-st-johns\/teen-volleys-prestigious-position\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Johns County teen volleys for prestigious position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Courtney Clark<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mail@floridanewsline.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To join the Florida High Performance boys national select volleyball team, male teens from all over the state of Florida try out for a position. The process is competitive and consists of a week-long championship tournament with international and domestic teams. The High Performance team is prestigious, offering an opportunity to reach Olympic teams.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the immense challenge, Creekside High School student Jake Vorburger made the team as a middle hitter and will be competing in the 2016 High Performance Championship. The 14-year-old lives life large \u2013 literally. Already at 6\u20196\u201d and 230 pounds, the teen is the largest athlete on the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vorburger hasn\u2019t always played volleyball. In fact, he started his athletic career as a baseball player.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI started playing baseball at age five and played throughout middle school,\u201d Vorburger said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In eighth grade, he tried out for the Fruit Cove Middle School volleyball team, coached by Rob Holley (the current head coach of the High Performance team). The Fruit Cove team went undefeated and won the county championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThat experience was where I discovered my love for volleyball,\u201d Vorburger said. He transitioned to the Jacksonville Junior Volleyball Association and has been excelling ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was a little nervous at first,\u201d he said about tryouts. \u201cThis is only my second season playing volleyball and the majority of boys trying out have played for years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For tryouts, teen boys from all over Florida were rated by three coaches over the course of two days in Daytona Beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The USA Volleyball 2016 High Performance Championships, an event with more than 100 teams (including international teams), are held in Fort Lauderdale from July 19 \u2013 23. To prepare, Vorburger plays almost every day with some of his local club teammates at the sand volleyball court in Julington Creek Plantation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s weird because the team is made up of kids all over the state of Florida, so we can\u2019t get together to practice prior to the tournament,\u201d Vorburger said. \u201cEven though the Championship is not a beach volleyball tournament\u2026beach volleyball helps to keep me active and keeps muscle memory alive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vorburger wants volleyball to remain a part of his life. His goal is to play with a Division 1 college, a national team and eventually to join a professional team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy Jennifer Vorburger<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jake Vorburger<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Courtney Clark mail@floridanewsline.com To join the Florida High Performance boys national select volleyball team, male teens from all over the state of Florida try out for a position. The process is competitive and consists of a week-long championship tournament with international and domestic teams. 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