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The JVA Impact: 2025
As we turn the page on 2025, JVA is energized by the momentum and promise surrounding the continued growth [...]
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Twin Cities Elite Volleyball Club Launches a Three-Part Holistic Health and Wellness Series with Support from the JVA Grant Program
Twin Cities Elite Volleyball is a small, nonprofit volleyball club that offers a wide range of programming to meet athletes at every stage of their journey, from developmental leagues designed for players who are [...]
Outdoor Volleyball Events: State of the Market
The bottom line: Outdoor volleyball is thriving, not just surviving. Despite year-round indoor competition, the data shows sustained growth where it matters most. Key findings: Destination events are booming: Junior national championships grew 15% (275.5 [...]
JVA Announces a Strategic Partnership with Neurofuel as the Preferred High Performance Mental Training Platform of JVA
Naperville, IL (September 15, 2025) — Junior Volleyball Association (JVA) is proud to announce a new partnership with Neurofuel, naming it the Preferred High Performance Mental Training Platform of JVA. This exciting collaboration will [...]
News
Top Female Volleyball Athletes Nominated for the 2024 JVA Watch List powered by Fivestar
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to announce the top female volleyball athletes in the country nominated for the 2024 JVA Watch List powered by Fivestar. Over _____ female indoor junior volleyball athletes from [...]
TeamLVC Wins JVA Club of the Month
TeamLVC is committed to growing the sport of volleyball not only at the juniors club level, but also at the top and bottom of the volleyball spectrum. In 2004 TeamLVC formed as a [...]
Beach Volleyball Clubs of America (BVCA) and JVA Forge Transformative Partnership with Volleyball Life
Milwaukee, WI, January 3, 2024– The Beach Volleyball Clubs of America (BVCA) and the Junior Volleyball Association (JVA) are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with Volleyball Life, ushering in a new era of excellence [...]
Club Directors
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 [...]
The Academy Boiler Juniors Wins JVA Club of the Month
Boiler Juniors was founded in 2014 by a group of coaches and parents passionate about sharing the game of volleyball with others, including John Shondell (former Assistant Coach at Purdue University, and current [...]
Coaches
3 Benefits of Upper Body Strength Training for Volleyball Athletes
It can be easy to focus on the lower body when training for volleyball. All of the jumping, fast reactions and explosive movements that happen on the court are started by the lower [...]
3 Benefits of Lower Body Strength Training for Volleyball Athletes
Lower body weight training is very common among athletes who are looking to improve their performance on the court. When looking at collegiate and professional volleyball players, there’s no shortage of athletes that [...]
How to Use Video Delay to Develop Volleyball Athletes
For over ten years Blake Rawlins has been using Video Delay as a tool to train the physical and intellectual quality of junior volleyball athletes performance on the court. He [...]
Boys
An AthLeader’s Journey: Driven to Lead
A Feature on 2020 Ultra Ankle® JVA AthLeader Senior Opposite/Right Side Ian Glashagel from Club 1 Volleyball Within the first week of 8th grade at his new school, the district announced that it was creating [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Girls
Elevate Your Volleyball Game: 3 Key Strategies for Performance Enhancement
Volleyball is an intense sport that demands agility, speed, and explosive power from its players. Whether you're an experienced athlete or a beginner, there are always ways to enhance your performance on the court. [...]
Recruiting Solutions: 4 Ways to Guide Your Athletes During the Recruiting Process
The volleyball recruiting process is far different from just a few years ago when the newest club and high school coaches navigated the process themselves as student athletes. The evolution of recruiting services, social [...]
JVA Announces a Partnership with VKTRY Performance Insoles to Help Junior Volleyball Athletes Enhance Performance and Reduce Injuries
The Junior Volleyball Association (JVA) is pleased to announce a partnership with VKTRY Performance Insoles that will allow junior volleyball players to take their game to the next level. Made from full-length, 100% aerospace-grade [...]
Beach
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 [...]
Beach Solutions: Partner Pairing for Doubles Competition and Club Dual Events
Beach partner pairing can be a challenging part of playing beach volleyball. It is the #1 most intimidating task that new players must learn to do for themselves. “Can you help find a partner [...]
Beach Solutions: Cohesion and Flexibility with Indoor Leads to Success
Madsand Beach started in 2017 with less than 10 athletes training with Founder Will Buchanan. At the time, Buchanan was coaching indoor for Madfrog Volleyball Club, one of the top indoor clubs in the region, [...]
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
JVA Raises $20,000 for the Side-Out Foundation at the JVA World Challenge
The JVA is a proud supporter of the Side-Out Foundation and the Dig Pink® Program. Every year the JVA commits to raising funds for the Side-Out Foundation in order to support research specifically for patients [...]
2022 JVA Club Management Track and Convention Highlights
Competition makes us better, but collaboration is the glue to success. JVA Club Directors and Coaches compete against one another across the net all season long, but behind the scenes they are working together to [...]
JVA Launches the Officials Reward Program to Recognize and Reward the Service of Officials
The JVA is thrilled to launch the JVA Officials Reward Program (ORP) designed to recruit, retain and reward Officials that support JVA Volleyball Events. Through this program, Officials will be recognized for reaching a certain [...]
Awards
Top Female Volleyball Athletes Nominated for the 2024 JVA Watch List powered by Fivestar
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to announce the top female volleyball athletes in the country nominated for the 2024 JVA Watch List powered by Fivestar. Over _____ female indoor junior volleyball athletes from [...]
TeamLVC Wins JVA Club of the Month
TeamLVC is committed to growing the sport of volleyball not only at the juniors club level, but also at the top and bottom of the volleyball spectrum. In 2004 TeamLVC formed as a [...]
Elite Volleyball Training Center Wins JVA Club of the Month
Elite Volleyball Training Center was founded in 2007 by current club co-directors and husband/wife team, Randy and Jackie Cline. The club started with only 10 girls and quickly grew from one team to [...]
Training
Signs, Symptoms and Resources for Concussions in Volleyball
Volleyball is growing in popularity all over the world. While it's not a high contact sport like football and ice hockey, the combination of high speed hits and aggressive diving and defense pose a high [...]
How Yoga Can Help Prevent Common Volleyball Injuries
Implementing prevention strategies is the key to keeping your athletes healthy, playing, and assisting the team with earning more wins. Since injury is often caused by poor biomechanics, neuromuscular deficiencies, overtraining, and decreased flexibility, effective [...]
Coaching Mental Performance: The Neurobiology of Development and a Coach’s Impact
As coaches, our goal is to facilitate a “safe” environment not just so the athlete does not get hurt, but so they learn healthy attachment, which in turn helps them positively adapt their game to [...]
Parents
Create a Game Plan for the SAT or ACT
Only about 5.5% of women and 4.6% of men that play volleyball at the high school level go on to play in college, and college coaches absolutely take into consideration grades and standardized test scores when recruiting. Therefore scoring high on the...
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...
Recruiting
6 Steps to Keep Volleyball Student Athletes on Track for Academic Eligibility
For millions of parents and high school students, college athletics is the gold standard they dream of. To accomplish that dream, they pour their heart and soul into training, travel, and equipment. However, there’s [...]
Recruiting Solutions: 3 Ways to Respond to the DI Recruiting Changes
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a [...]
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 [...]
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.
