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Business Solutions: A Smarter Way to Protect Your Volleyball Club from Chargebacks
How Enabling Player Registration Protection Supports Refund Disputes and Safeguards Revenue Let’s face it, refund disputes and chargebacks are [...]
Blog Categories
Business Solutions: Creative Ways to Fill a Volleyball Facility During Off Peak Hours
During the club season, Club Directors who lease or own a facility are faced with the challenge of filling the courts to create additional revenue streams and pay the bills. Club team practices fill [...]
Technology Solutions: 10 Reasons Your Club Needs Cybersecurity Insurance
In the fall of 2024, average weekly attacks per organization increased by 75% compared to the year before, and big business is not the most attractive target. Small businesses with less than 100 [...]
JVA Announces the 2025 JVA Girls’ Watch List powered by VKTRY Performance Insoles
(Naperville, Illinois) The JVA is pleased to announce the top female volleyball athletes in the country nominated for the 2025 JVA Watch List powered by VKTRY Performance Insoles. Over 5,100 female indoor junior volleyball [...]
News
JVA Announces the 2023-2024 JVA Sponsor Clubs
The JVA is pleased to announce the JVA Sponsor Clubs for the 2023-2024 indoor junior volleyball indoor season. In the 7th year of the JVA Sponsor Program, the JVA will give back a total of [...]
JVA Proudly Announces the 2023-2024 JVA Challenge Series powered by i6
The JVA is pleased to announce the 25 events named to the 2023-2024 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6. These events are aligned in their commitment to providing an elite, safe and high quality competition [...]
2023 JVA Best in Beach powered by Fivestar
(July 10, 2023. Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to announce the 2023 JVA Best in Beach powered by Fivestar that recognizes the nation’s top female JVA beach athletes for outstanding achievement during the [...]
Club Directors
Beach Solutions: A Guide to Attainable Financial Targets and Benchmarks
Whether you're looking to establish a new beach club or optimize an existing one, it's important to spend time creating a budget and forecasting your revenue and expenses. These insights offer valuable comparisons and [...]
Technology Solutions: 10 Steps to Minimize Ransomware Attacks
More than 14 publicly claimed ransomware attacks occur each day, many of which target small businesses or organizations that don’t think they’re in danger. But this doesn’t mean you have to wait like a [...]
Business Solutions: A Data-Driven Approach to Volleyball Club Salaries
The JVA surveyed a diverse landscape of junior volleyball clubs across the country with the goal of capturing key trends and data points that can guide decisions for junior volleyball club leaders. Below is [...]
Coaches
Coaching Mental Performance: Energy and Communication for Gen Z Volleyball Athletes
Reading through Gabor Mate’s latest book, Myth of Normal, he speaks of a relational poverty where our interpersonal connectedness is at an all-time low. It is common to be surrounded by so many people and [...]
Recruiting Solutions: Tournament Season Checklist for Upperclassmen
The High School Season is over and it’s finally about time for in-person recruiting to get back into full swing. If you're an uncommitted junior or senior and want to play in college, THIS ARTICLE [...]
Coaching Mental Performance: No Such thing as a “Bad” Practice
While working as a counseling intern for the leading harm reduction facility here in the Greater Chicagoland area: Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center, I often referred to a quote that adorns a wall [...]
Boys
High Performance STL Wins JVA Club of the Month
The 2020 season marked High Performance STL’s 20th season. Beginning in 2000 the club was founded as a boy’s club by a group of likeminded individuals that all had common values and goals. They had [...]
26 Student Athletes Honored as 2020 Ultra Ankle JVA AthLeaders
The JVA is pleased to announce the indoor junior volleyball athletes selected as 2020 Ultra Ankle® JVA AthLeaders. This year the JVA awards committee has selected 6 male and 20 female student athletes who are [...]
JVA Releases 2020 Ultra Ankle® JVA Boys Watch List
The JVA is proud to announce the 2020 Ultra Ankle® JVA Boys Watch List featuring 299 male junior volleyball athletes from JVA member clubs across the country. The featured athletes were selected by their respective [...]
Girls
Recruiting Solutions: April Qualifiers Bring May Maintenance
May is a great month to assess and maintain the recruiting process. Many clubs have limited weekends of play in May and will train more in the gym to prepare for June championships. It [...]
The 2023 JVA Girls Watch List powered by Fivestar is Released
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to release the 2023 JVA Watch List powered by Fivestar featuring over 3,600 girls indoor junior volleyball athletes from 200 JVA member clubs across the country. The players nominated [...]
5 Benefits of Yoga for Volleyball Athletes
Yoga designed for volleyball athletes is not “athletic” or “powerful” yoga – it is a method of recovery used to balance out the physical demands, repetitive actions, and mental stress of the gym/court/field. When practiced [...]
Beach
The 2022 BVCA Club Challenge Series powered by JVA Unites the Nation’s Elite Beach Events
The JVA is pleased to announce the 2022 BVCA Club Challenge Series powered by the JVA and in partnership with the Beach Volleyball Clubs of America. In its fourth year, the series has nearly doubled [...]
Beach Solutions: Is there still space for the hybrid athlete?
At the collegiate level, the dual athlete is becoming extinct. Only a handful of athletes can handle the rigor of two sports during a collegiate year, especially at the Division I level. The trend is [...]
Beach Solutions: 9 Tips to Host a Quality Beach Tournament
Many clubs are recognizing the value of having a beach program because of the rapid growth in the sport's popularity and participation. Rather than lose your athletes to a nearby beach club for a few [...]
Culture
A Driving Force in the Volleyball World
I think we can all agree that Social Media Platforms have taken over as the main mode of information dissemination for both business and personal use. We have discovered over the past few years how extremely important our social media...
Early Season Team Meeting, Training and Cohesion
TAV 14 Black has many rules that it follows each year to compete for Championships. The team is constructed in a manor to play at the highest level with the least amount of distractions. When choosing a team, we take into...
7 Steps to Implement a Code of Ethics in Your Volleyball Club
Having been the President of Eastside Volleyball Club for the last 22 years, having served on a High School Board of Education during the Columbine shooting, and having been affiliated in many community youth organizations for the previous 40 years, I am...
Events
Appalachian Boys Power League Launches in 2023
Growing boys volleyball in Tennessee has been a most rewarding challenge. In 2012 K2 Volleyball Coach Cory Felts started a boys team that included his son and his son's friends, some other coaches' sons, and [...]
JVA and AAU Join Together to Host the Chi-Town Boys Challenge
The JVA is pleased to announce a collaboration with the AAU to co-host the Chi-Town Boys Challenge November 19-21, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. The event is expected to bring over 350 boys volleyball teams from [...]
JVA’s Dig Pink Campaign Raises a Record High for the Side-Out Foundation
The JVA is thankful to be a long-time partner of The Side-Out Foundation and its Dig Pink® Program. Each year, the JVA raises funds for Side-Out that go toward research specifically for patients with metastatic [...]
Awards
Optimum Beach Wins JVA Club of the Month
Optimum Beach was established in 2014 as a high level beach volleyball training program with an international approach. Director Pri Piantadosi-Lima recognized early on that there was a need for a more dynamic approach to [...]
JVA Presents the 2023 JVA All-National Team powered by Fivestar
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (June 5, 2023) The JVA is pleased to announce the 88 student athletes selected to the 2023 JVA All-National Team powered by Fivestar, which recognizes the top female indoor volleyball players competing for [...]
Matchbox Volleyball Club Wins JVA Club of the Month
Matchbox Volleyball Club, based out of Aberdeen, South Dakota, is one of the largest club volleyball organizations in South Dakota and provides athletes ages 8-18 with a developmental and competitive volleyball experience. The club was [...]
Training
3 Types of Yoga to Help Volleyball Athletes Prep for Nationals
It’s the post season and your team has made it to the height of competition. Everything your athletes have worked for all season is finally here. It’s an exciting time but it can also [...]
Overcoming Performance Anxiety
Performance anxiety. Most feel it, no one talks about it. It’s that feeling you get down deep in your gut the night before a game or on your way to a tough practice. It [...]
Breathwork for Optimal Volleyball Performance
As volleyball athletes, because playing our sport is so physical, we often forget that optimal performance comes from more than just the muscular or skeletal system. Here's how the nervous system affects performance and [...]
Parents
Train for Competition Beyond the Ball
To fully prepare athletes for competition, coaches should be training the mind along with training the physical aspects of the game. A team's physical performance is a direct reflection of the quality of physical training. A team's mental readiness is a direct reflection of the emphasis placed on training the mind. Here are five ways to begin to train your team beyond the ball.
Are volleyball scholarships guaranteed for four years?
It’s no secret that the volleyball recruiting process can get complicated, especially when it comes to athletic scholarships. One question many athletes wonder is whether volleyball scholarships are even guaranteed for four years. Find out the answer to this...
How to Tell If a College Coach is Recruiting You
It can be tricky for a volleyball athlete to understand if and when he/she is being recruited by a college coach. Do recruiting questionnaires count? How about camp invites? A phone call? Not every coach is going to show...
Recruiting
Recruiting Updates for Volleyball Athletes, Recruiting Coordinators and Coaches
If you’re a volleyball athlete, club recruiting coordinator, or coach you’ve undoubtedly dealt with many changes in the past few months regarding the coronavirus and how it has affected the volleyball recruiting process. It’s an [...]
Recruiting Solutions: Dispelling the Myths of Junior College Volleyball
Santa Fe College located in Gainesville, Florida was built from the ground up, with its first ever season in 2014. Rather than share advice on videos and recruiting tips, this piece advocates an overlooked opportunity [...]
How to show volleyball coaches your coachability during the recruiting dead period
The NCAA Division 1 Council Coordination Committee extended the recruiting dead period for all sports through August 31, further delaying recruiting activity this summer for many athletes and college programs. However, there are still things [...]
Travel
Securing a Hotel Block for Your Volleyball Event Without a Stay to Play Policy
The U.S. hotel industry has seen eight straight years in revenue growth, and forecasts point to the highest hotel occupancies in 2018 since the 1980’s. In general, hotel room rates seem higher than in the past – and they are! There...
AAU and JVA Unite to Create West Coast Boys Championship
This June the AAU and JVA are joining forces to run the AAU Boys West Coast Championships, a competitive boy's volleyball tournament in Anaheim, CA. The two organizations joining together to run an event is nothing short of promising for the future of boys volleyball.
Attracting the Multi-Sport Athletes to Your Club
There are many factors that multi-sport athletes look for when choosing a volleyball club. Many clubs have found ways to appeal to the multi-sport athlete, and VC Nebraska is one of them. Based on the club's demographics, VC Nebraska made some adjustments in order to attract multi-sport athletes to the club. Based on her experience, Club Director Maggie Griffin shares three ways to attract the multi-sport athletes to your club.
