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Coaching Solutions: 2 Serving Strategies to Win More Volleyball Games
Serving strategically can create a lot of advantages for your team during a volleyball match. Where you place [...]
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Sample Early Season Performance Training Program
When implementing an early season training program, the first thing to consider is the type of physical activity the participants have recently had, and what place their bodies are in from a fitness perspective [...]
Beach Solutions: 7 tips to utilize tournaments to attract new athletes to your program
Hosting a 4v4 beach volleyball tournament can be a fun and rewarding way to engage young athletes, bring the community together, and showcase the sport. Here’s a guide based on a tried-and-true model to [...]
Technology Solutions: Cyber Hygiene Best Practices
Data privacy has never been more at risk, making data privacy a growing concern for 2025. As awareness of cyber threats grows, people are increasingly concerned about how organizations collect, store, and share personal [...]
News
JVA Announces Partnership with 3Step Sports to Enhance JVA Hosted Girls’ Volleyball Events
The JVA mission is to promote the growth of youth and junior volleyball through program and resource development, education, and events. #BeJVAUnited The JVA is pleased to announce a partnership with 3Step Sports to enhance [...]
JVA Announces New Partnership with Gipper to Streamline Social Media for Volleyball Clubs
Milwaukee, WI. December 1, 2022 —, Gipper Media, Inc. (Gipper), the leading social media content creation and management platform for sub-professional sports, and the Junior Volleyball Association (JVA), the premier national organization for the promotion [...]
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 [...]
Club Directors
The Absolute Volleyball Academy of Texas Wins JVA Club of the Month
The Absolute Volleyball Academy (AVA) of Texas has quickly risen to become one of the top volleyball clubs in the Lone Star region, known for its competitive teams and commitment to player development. AVA [...]
Beach Solutions: Creating a Budget for a Beach Volleyball Club
Budgeting is a process of guestimating what your business will look like for the next 3-6 months, 12 months or more. It's important to create a budget because it gives you a roadmap for [...]
Technology Solutions: What is Cyber Security and is it Important for Volleyball Clubs?
Obviously a big part of avoiding a cyberattack is understanding how hackers think, how they find vulnerabilities in your systems, and how they exploit system weaknesses. When you understand the multitude of ways they [...]
Coaches
Coaching Mental Performance: Self-Care for Coaches and Athletes
Whereas the curriculum was the meat and potatoes of my education at Adler University, the broth was this concept of “self-care”; for without it all of my hard work, knowledge, and intention would leave my [...]
Master Training Philosophy and Execution for 12U-18U
Illini Elite utilizes the master training philosophy for all of its programs from camps and clinics to youth teams and high school elite teams. Through its execution, one of the benefits of master training is [...]
Coaching Mental Performance: 6 Stages of Behavioral Change and “What to do When…”
“I keep telling them to… but they don’t want to listen!” “I’ve been telling them that all season, and here it is again, when it counts, and they’re still doing the same thing.” “I [...]
Boys
College Opportunities for Men’s Volleyball
When prospective male student athletes think about playing volleyball at the college level, images of competing under the bright lights at a powerhouse volleyball school often come to mind. On the other hand, many boys are not aware of the...
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...
5 Yoga Poses that Benefit Volleyball Athletes
Yoga is oftentimes only thought of as a way of calming down and relaxing, but it has many more benefits than those two, especially for volleyball athletes. Here are five yoga poses that will directly benefit a volleyball athlete's performance on the indoor and sand court.
Girls
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 [...]
From the JVA Office: Let’s Set our Views on Volleyball
I asked a high school female volleyball player to name her top three favorite volleyball players. She took a long pause, then said the first name of a high school volleyball player she saw play [...]
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 [...]
Beach
JVA Presents the Club Management Education Track at the 2020 AVCA Convention
The JVA is pleased to present the Club Management Education Track at the 2020 AVCA Convention. In addition to an outstanding line-up of virtual classroom sessions for Club Directors, the JVA is also sponsoring two [...]
5 Keys to Forearm Passing in Beach Volleyball
Teaching the keys to good consistent passing can help young athletes become stronger partners. Here are 5 passing keys to apply on and off the court to help beach athletes improve their game from the [...]
Excel in the Sand with these Footwork Tips from Beach Nation
"Most people believe that an improved jump by itself will translate into more effective hitting. Hops help but a more impactful focus on would be to develop great footwork." - Reid Priddy, 4-time USA [...]
Culture
Playing Time and Finding a Role for Each Player
As the club volleyball season moves into an ever increasingly competitive segment of the season, all involved (athletes, coaches, parents) get a sense of where the season could be headed. From the bleachers, some parents may be wondering why we...
From the JVA Office: Building Great Sports Parents
When I talk to Club Directors and ask them "What keeps you up a night?" The #1 response I hear most often is "Parents". I had the good fortune to meet and talk with an amazing woman, Ruth Nelson, this past...
Team Bonding and Cohesion Guides Teams to Success
Team bonding and cohesion can be one of the first challenges coaches tackle at the start of a new volleyball season. Often before the first practice, and throughout the season, athletes are brought together to build relationships that lead to...
Events
From the JVA Office: The Benefits of Grass Volleyball Programming and Considerations for Junior Clubs
Many assume that grass volleyball tournaments are for adults who are past their prime, or those who missed the opportunity to play at a young age so they give grass volleyball a try. However, grass [...]
The East Coast is Calling as JVA Announces the JVA Charm City Challenge
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (June 7, 2021) The JVA is pleased to announce that it is headed east to host the JVA Charm City Challenge presented by Nike February 5-6, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland. The event will [...]
Recruiting Solutions: Historically Black Colleges and Opportunities for Athletes of Color
The social and economic barriers to high-level volleyball training and exposure to recruiting opportunities are clear. The high costs of club dues, travel, and time commitments often exclude low-income athletes from high-level training and the [...]
Awards
The 2022 JVA All-National Team powered by Fivestar is Released
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (June 6, 2022) The JVA is pleased to announce the 84 student athletes selected to the 2022 JVA All-National Team powered by Fivestar, which recognizes the top female indoor volleyball players competing [...]
JVA Announces the 2022 JVA Athleaders powered by Fivestar
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (May 16, 2022)– The JVA is pleased to announce the 2022 JVA Athleaders powered by Fivestar to celebrate the success of an impressive group of male and female indoor and beach junior [...]
Dakine Volleyball Club Wins JVA Club of the Month
In 2015, Dakine Warriors started as three four-day summer camps as a way for Chris Hannemann to rehab from a torn achilles. He started with about 7-10 kids per camp who had some fun learning [...]
Training
2 Steps to Improve Mental Resilience for Volleyball Athletes
If we are not in the right state of mind before major changes happen, how do we mentally handle shifts and changes with ease and keep our eyes on our overall goals? Characteristics of [...]
Post Season Yoga for Volleyball Athletes
There are different types of yoga for the different times in your season. Most volleyball training programs contain an off-season and base period (pre season), a build period (season), in which work intensifies, and a [...]
How to Talk to Volleyball Athletes About Nutrition
I recently asked a few coaches how they approach nutrition and healthy eating habits with players. The responses: “Specific, very important and sometimes sensitive subject.” "I don’t talk about it with players very often for [...]
Parents
Three Keys That Have Helped a Young Club Establish a Strong Foundation
Maylen Mitrovich loved volleyball, and she wanted better coaches and tougher tournaments than what her small, local club provided. So her mother, Monica, researched and identified a few other options. But Maylen Mitrovich didn’t have the best experience, and...
JVA Launches Take5 Fitness and Tuesdays with Mora Series
Volleyball players time is limited, however there can be a simple way to incorporate fitness, mindfulness and mental training into the weekly routine. The JVA has launched two brand new educational series that share short and easy ways for players...
Finding Success in the Evolving World of Collegiate Recruiting
Over the past few months there has been much conjecture regarding the decision to exclude Freshman/Sophomore volleyball recruits from taking unofficial visits to Division I programs until September 1 of their Junior year of High School. As a Recruiting Coordinator...
Recruiting
A Path to Men’s College Volleyball: One Nebraska Athlete’s Story
As volleyball has exploded in popularity, it is girls who have powered that growth, which is why it’s largely perceived as one of the few “girls” sports. According to the National Federation of High School Associations, only 22 states even...
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...
College Opportunities for Men’s Volleyball
When prospective male student athletes think about playing volleyball at the college level, images of competing under the bright lights at a powerhouse volleyball school often come to mind. On the other hand, many boys are not aware of the...
Travel
5 Strengths of Japanese Volleyball
A few JVA members recently traveled to Tokyo, Japan to observe and learn from different volleyball groups. After more than 20 hours of watching elementary to high school players train, there were 5 aspects of the game that differetiated Japanese volleyball and...
Learning Toughness Abroad: SPVB Travels to Dominican Republic
By Rachael Fara, Player, Sports Performance 18 Elite From March 27 to April 3, SportsPerformance Volleyball Club traveled to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. As a four year member of SPVB, and a two year member of 18 Elite, I have been provided with three
Creating a Volleyball Tournament Schedule
By Mark McCloskey, Club Director, Pentagon Volleyball Club Whether you are a long established club or a fledgling first year club, the process of putting together a tournament schedule that meets the needs of all your teams can be a...
