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Beach Solutions: Strategies to Grow Your Beach Volleyball Program
In the world of junior beach volleyball, small clubs often face the challenge of standing out among larger, more established [...]
Blog Categories
Growing Great Officials: Organizations to Join
You could go buy a whistle, a set of red and yellow cards and call it a day. However, without training and certification, you are not quite official. We owe it to the players, [...]
Beach Solutions: Planning Your Club’s Beach Volleyball Summer Camps
Hybrid models, competitive prep, and programming that builds your brand and your athletes As the sun comes out and indoor seasons wind down, the beach game begins to heat up — and summer becomes [...]
Coaching Solutions: Managing Responsibilities for a Head Volleyball Coach and Assistant Volleyball Coach
One of the most important aspects of running a successful volleyball program at any level—especially in junior volleyball—is having clearly defined coaching roles during matches. When both the head coach and assistant coach understand [...]
News
JVA Proudly Announces the Recipients of the 2023 JVA Junior Club Service Award
"Coaching is releasing a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them." ~Unknown The JVA is pleased to announce the 28 individuals honored with the [...]
JVA Welcomes Cat Dailey Minyard to the JVA Board of Directors
The JVA is pleased to announce the addition of Cat Dailey Minyard to the JVA Board of Directors. She will begin a three year term on the Board in January 2024. Cat is the Founder [...]
JVA Partners With SportsRecruits To Power College Recruiting Efforts
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - November 2nd, 2023 – The Junior Volleyball Association (JVA) is thrilled to announce its collaboration with SportsRecruits, the leading college recruiting network, to enhance the college recruiting efforts for its member organizations. [...]
Club Directors
Considerations for the Boys Indoor Junior Volleyball Season
Indoor volleyball is the #1 team participatory sport in high school and college for girls. Over the past five years, boys indoor high school volleyball has been the fastest growing team sport by percentage [...]
NIL Basics for Volleyball Club Directors, Coaches, and Parents
Preparing Your Volleyball Athletes for Future Opportunities With Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) now a part of the college sports landscape, volleyball athletes have the opportunity to benefit financially from their personal brand. While [...]
Kokua Volleyball Club Wins JVA Club of the Month
In 2020, amid a global pandemic, Chan Esperas and Jamie Cleary launched Kōkua Volleyball Club, offering socially distanced beach volleyball training. With incredible mentors guiding them, they felt compelled to give back to the [...]
Coaches
3 Tips for End of Season Practices
As season winds down and the National Championship approaches, it's important for coaches to run deliberate practices, designed to help their team improve performance. PVF Orlando Valkries Head Coach, Amy Pauly shares what their [...]
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 [...]
Coaching Mental Performance: The Coaches’ Ego
Often when I speak with athletes after errors or a “terrible play” I hear that they “freeze” and “forget” what they were doing or what they were about to do, and explain that “they [...]
Boys
How a Volleyball Club Can Continue to Serve Its Members During the Coronavirus Crisis
As schools and organizations close, we've encountered several JVA volleyball clubs that have acted quickly to implement a course of action. Rather than wait for practices to resume, many club directors and their staff have [...]
6 Components to Analyzing Growth Opportunities
Analyzing growth opportunities is one of the most important things that you can do as a club director and business owner. It can be detrimental to your club if you grow just to grow, [...]
From the JVA Office: JVA Hosts First Boys Summit in Chicago
One of the resources that JVA brings to our members is advocacy. A conversation that is continually brought up by our Boys Club Directors and coaches is a dissatisfaction with the current split season for [...]
Girls
Recruiting Solutions: 4 Things to Know Heading Into the Contact and Evaluation Period
Two months ago, we were preparing for the club volleyball season to start, the holiday break hit us, and boom, now we're in the Evaluation Period. UPPERCLASSMEN (juniors and seniors in high school), hopefully, [...]
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 [...]
Recruiting Solutions: Keeping Momentum Going During the Fall
The Fall High School Season can be a busy time of year for a lot of high school volleyball players. Many players have limited communication with their club coaches and club recruiting staff. It’s also [...]
Beach
JVA Expands its Opportunities for Beach Competition with the BVCA Club Challenge Series
The JVA is pleased to announce the slate of events that comprise the 2022-2023 BVCA Club Challenge Series powered by the JVA. The fifth year of the series follows the trend of geographic growth and [...]
2022 JVA Best in Beach powered by Fivestar
(July 7, 2022. Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to announce the 2022 JVA Best in Beach powered by Fivestar that recognizes the nation’s top female JVA beach athletes for outstanding achievement during the [...]
2022 JVA Beach Watch List presented by Fivestar
(June 29, 2022. Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to announce the 2022 JVA Beach Watch List presented by Fivestar that recognizes the top female beach athletes from JVA member clubs this season. Over 150 [...]
Culture
Building a Club Culture
Seng Chiu didn't plan to start his own volleyball club. Though he had a lifelong love for the sport, he was perfectly content spending most of his career career coaching at the high school and college level. But as volleyball exploded in popularity, Chiu recognized two problems: Young players were being systematically weeded out, as most clubs targeted elite-level athletes, and those who endured oftentimes burned out. Hear from three JVA Club Directors who make it a point to create a positive club culture for every skill level.
Identifying the Factors That Differentiate the Good from the Great
Success breeds success. It's a common phenomenon known as "The Winner Effect". Over the past few years and even decade the dominance of certain clubs raises the question, what are these top clubs in the country doing in their gyms? And what changes did they make that resulted in their success?
Dusting off the Crystal Ball: Predicting the Future of Volleyball
If we understand how we got to where we are today as a sport and business then we can make predictions about where we are going in the future. Since we are a young industry we can learn from how...
Events
JVA Expands its Opportunities for Beach Competition with the BVCA Club Challenge Series
The JVA is pleased to announce the slate of events that comprise the 2022-2023 BVCA Club Challenge Series powered by the JVA. The fifth year of the series follows the trend of geographic growth and [...]
JVA Releases Slate of Events for 2023 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6
The JVA is pleased to announce the 29 events named to the 2023 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6. All JVA Challenge Series hosts share in the JVA’s ideology to provide a high quality, safe [...]
The Western Boys Power League Develops Solutions for the Growth of Boys Volleyball
Absolute Zero Volleyball Club started out as a girls program that arose from the need to provide training for fundamentals and mechanics in a fun environment. The club is based on the “Science of Volleyball” [...]
Awards
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 [...]
2023 JVA Beach Watch List powered by Fivestar
(July 3, 2023. Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to announce the 2023 JVA Beach Watch List presented by Fivestar that recognizes the top female beach athletes from JVA member clubs this season. Over 260 [...]
JVA Presents the 2023 JVA Boys All-National Team powered by Fivestar
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (June 28, 2023) The JVA is pleased to announce the 49 student athletes selected to the 2023 JVA Boys All-National Team powered by Fivestar, which recognizes the top male indoor volleyball players competing [...]
Training
Are your volleyball athletes doing the wrong kind of yoga?
All athletes, no matter the sport, have a training program that changes throughout the year. There is a base period (pre-season), a build period (in-season), a peak/competitive period (post-season), and an off period (off-season). Strength, [...]
Pre-Season Yoga for Volleyball Athletes
An athlete’s yoga practice should change according to their season, just like their training regimen does. During the pre-season, athletes are in preparation mode. Their practice times start to increase and training starts to intensify. [...]
Corrective Flexibility for Volleyball Athletes
During the off-season, athletes have quite a bit of leeway on what they should be focusing on. Their training focus depends on their health. For example, if an athlete is healthy and ready to go, [...]
Parents
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...
4 Recruiting Tips for Parents
Parents don’t always know when they’re being evaluated by college coaches. And it's important to make a positive impact on their child’s recruiting process without getting in the way. To help you embrace your supporting role and assist your child in their quest to play college volleyball, here are some recruiting tips for parents.
The Role of College Volleyball Camps in the Recruiting Process
College volleyball camps are a great opportunity to get evaluated by college coaches and show off your skillset against elite competition. Let's dive into the different types of camps and better understand how camps can play a role in the recruiting process.
Recruiting
Recruiting Solutions: 5 Things to Know about NAIA College Volleyball Programs
Navigating the recruiting landscape can be overwhelming to many, especially when considering there are so many different rules. Here is a brief overview of the rules associated with the recruitment of student-athletes directly from [...]
Recruiting Solutions: 4 Ways to Connect With Division III College Volleyball Programs
Stress and the unknown have been common themes on both ends of the recruiting process. The stress felt by the college coaches has been quite similar to stress felt by the prospective student athletes. It is [...]
How to email college volleyball coaches during COVID-19
Email is more than just part of the recruiting process. As we all deal with the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, digital communication is one of the few ways that college coaches can still actively [...]
Travel
5 Methods for Collecting Unpaid Club Dues
Now that club season has arrived, most club directors know that they’ll be facing some issues with the timely collection of club dues, travel fees, camp fees, etc. during some course of the season. There are no easy solutions...
JVA Announces Partnership with RallyMe
RallyMe and the Junior Volleyball Association (JVA) have partnered to provide a new, state-of-the-art fundraising platform exclusively for JVA member athletes and teams.
JVA to Host Kansas City Classic April 28-29, 2018
The JVA is excited to bring another high quality event to the Midwest next season. The JVA Kansas City Classic will be held at the Kansas City Convention Center in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri April 28-29, 2018. With the...
