UCSF Parnassus RecSports

Love Roger! This is a league that actually has a referee who knows the game and is a joy to see each week. The league itself has a mix of seasoned players and individuals who are still learning how to pass. It is a very relaxed and friendly environment. I only wish they had music playing while we do. It can be a pretty business like environment vs. Social volleyball. All in all very fun and the facility is top notch.

Badminton, love playing here.
I use three things here
1) Swimming with my daughter of 12 years old
Their pool has shallow waters, it’s indoors, it has up to 8 foot on the other end. Not super busy during family swim hours. Plenty of exercise for the both of us. Love it
2) The ping pong and pool tables upstairs.
Over looking the Golden Gate bridge while we hit ping pong, brush up on billard skills. they have a piano and foosball table as well
3) I play badminton here every Saturday from 5:30 — 8:00pm, need I say more? No existing badminton clubs in San Francisco, making this a very attractive place. With some good players, 3 courts, you can get all you can take.

I played in the volleyball league and 6′ and under basketball league at UCSF Parnassus. The RecSports program is run by Caroline Hernandez, a pretty cool program supervisor who is present at most of the league games. The leagues are fairly well-​run… the schedules are sent out before-​hand, there is a captain’s meeting to get everyone familiar with the rules, and Caroline is sometimes accommodating if teams need to re-​schedule a game.
Most of the volleyball seasons were fine… competition was decent and the games were fun. They do have a dumb coed rule that shouldn’t apply for leagues with advanced skill level. Why does a girl need a rule requiring them to touch the ball when nobody is avoiding them? The other leagues I have played in since have no such rule, and everyone likes it much better. Having to scramble to get a girl to touch the ball before it goes over the net is not volleyball.
Also, the officiating should not be detrimental to the game. Roger (the referee on most nights) is a really nice old dude, but his officiating is weak. He likes to call two-​touch too much on the setter, and he doesn’t really call much else. His whistle is really weak too (the first thing they teach you in officiating training is to have a strong whistle).
Lastly, in the final season I played there, instead of having the entire gym to ourselves with one volleyball court, they tried to squish two side-​by-​side games in at the same time (one beginner league and one intermediate). This caused the baseline out-​of-​bounds to be the wall. I don’t think I need to tell you how annoying that was. This was pretty much the last straw for my team and I, and we have since switched over to the JCCSF league, where we have been pretty happy.
Overall, not a horrible league, but my team is happier with our switch. I liked the league coordinator, but she wasn’t enough to keep us there.
U ltimately found a better (and cheaper) league to join at JCCSF.
C ampus location, so parking is a pain (I often had to use the pay garage).
S o-​so officiating, which led to more annoyances than if we would have self-​reffed.
F inal straw was having to use the wall as an out-​of-​bounds line.