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Six years of year-round volleyball. Long days and longer weekends. Countless tournaments and practices. None of this is enough to make Shelby Caudillo quit. The Rock Falls senior-to-be can't even come close to estimating how much of her 17 years has been spent on the volleyball court - but she wouldn't trade any of it. "I just can't get sick of playing this sport," Caudillo said. "You fall in love with it and can't let it go." Club volleyball has become an unstoppable phenomenon in teenage athletics, having taken off in a way the originators of off-season, nonschool-affiliated volleyball programs couldn't have imagined. It runs from January through June, with tournaments almost every weekend during the school year. Longer, bigger-scale tour