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Recruiting Solutions: Advice for Volleyball Athletes Heading into Presidents’ Day Weekend
Presidents’ Day tournaments are among the most important recruiting weekends of the year. College coaches plan their schedules months [...]
Blog Categories
Financial Considerations for Hiring Additional Staff at your Volleyball Club
There comes a point in every business owner’s path where they realize they need help. The need for a part-time or full-time staff member can help take operations to the next level, in freeing [...]
Business Solutions: Workers’ Compensation for Club Volleyball Staff
Club volleyball coaches and Officials are usually independent contractors paid by clubs or associations. This employment structure helps clubs stretch their budget and gives staff members certain freedoms. It’s crucial to understand the distinction [...]
Business Solutions: Investing in Coach Education to Elevate Your Training Standards
In today’s competitive sports environment, the most successful volleyball clubs are those that not only develop their players—but also invest in the continued education of their coaches and staff. One of the most effective [...]
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
Beach Solutions: Supplemental Revenue Streams for Beach Volleyball Clubs
As a Juniors Beach Volleyball Club Director, it’s easy to get caught up in the grind of collecting club dues and running practices. But let’s be real—if you want to build a thriving, financially [...]
Big City Volleyball is Creating Big Opportunities in NYC
Big City Volleyball, in its current form, was founded in 2007 as an adult volleyball league, hosting games Monday through Thursday in New York City. When League Director, David Walker, took over Big City [...]
Technology Solutions: How to Protect Your Volleyball Club from a DDoS Attack
Can a DDoS attack cripple A volleyball club? You bet! See how hackers forced this small firm to shut its doors overnight. In 2013, a promising software development hosting company, called Code Spaces, launched [...]
Coaches
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 [...]
5 Ways to Help Volleyball Athletes Prepare for Practice and Competition With Mental Performance Strategies
Athletes feel pressure from many different areas and often create high expectations based on those pressures that ultimately affect their confidence. In working with a mental performance coach, athletes learn how to mentally prepare [...]
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 for a Volleyball Club
Analyzing growth opportunities is one of the most important responsibilities of a Club Director and business owner. Growth for the sake of growth can damage a club. Failing to act on the right opportunities [...]
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
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 [...]
Developing a Beach Program with the Club Dual Format
After focusing on its indoor program for more than 13 years, Grand Strand Juniors is making new investments in a beach program. Club Director Alex Sing notes “It’s funny how things go full circle. GSJ [...]
Culture
Ensure a Safe and Inclusive Club Environment
Volleyball is for everyone. Many believe volleyball to be an especially accepting and inclusive community, and it begins when players are first introduced to the sport at a young age. There are helpful ways that Club Directors and Coaches can...
4 Ideas to Help Your Team End the Season Strong
It’s the calm before the season-ending storm, when clubs have a chance to rest and regroup before AAU and USAV Nationals. After a lot of matches and tournaments, everyone wants to shine in the coming weeks. Two JVA Club...
Make Boys Volleyball Appealing
In Nebraska, the sport of volleyball sells itself. After all, it's the home of Cornhusker volleyball, the 2015 Division I National Champions. However, in Lincoln volleyball is only viewed as a women's sport. VCNebraska is looking to change this perception.
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
5 Ways to Prevent Entitlement in Youth Sports
Entitlement is unfortunately becoming more prevalent in youth sports today, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. Young athletes feel as if they “deserve” certain consideration regardless of preparation or effort. Parents, coaches, mentors, grandparents, leaders of young...
Keep the GREAT Coaches Coaching
GREAT coaches are leaving the coaching world. Not because they're ready to retire after a long, polished career. GREAT coaches are quitting. GREAT coaches are being pushed out. GREAT coaches are realizing it's unfortunately not all about the athletes. Let's dive into four ways to keep the GREAT coaches coaching, along with some advice for coaches who are facing a challenge.
How to Create Better Sports Parents
Parents can set the precedent for the athlete's mental toughness. How parents behave and communicate before an event, during an event and after an event is the precedent that is set. It's important for a club director and coach to foster a learning environment for the parents so they can develop positive sports parenting habits. Here's a good place to start.
Recruiting
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 [...]
5 Key Differences Between High School and College Volleyball
The transition from high school to college can be a major adjustment. For the first time in your life, you move away from home and learn how to live on your own. It’s your sole [...]
Travel
Is Summer Camp a Recruiting Opportunity?
The regular season of club volleyball has ended, and while many teams are still training in preparation for the national championships, summer is rapidly approaching. With summer, comes summer camps and unofficial visit opportunities. Here is some advice to help...
From the JVA Office: JVA World Challenge Delivers a Game Changing Event Once Again
2007 marked the first ever JVA National Championship. Until 2010 the event was a year-end championship in mid-June. Fast forward to 2017 and the JVA World Challenge championship is the largest and most competitive to date. There are many reasons why the JVA...
Beach Competition: How to Select Events for Your Players
As a coach and father of a dedicated and aspiring 15 year old beach volleyball player it can become confusing and overwhelming when deciding which tournaments to compete in. Below are a few variables to consider in order to have a...
