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Recruiting Solutions: How to Share Your Club Season Schedule with College Coaches
One of the most common recruiting mistakes athletes make is sharing too much schedule information with college coaches. While [...]
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Coaching Solutions: Serve Receive Tactics to Consider for Your Volleyball Team
</ Serve receive is essential to a team's success. There are tactics you can apply as a coach to adjust your team's serve receive strategy such as: Your teams's passers strengths and weaknesses Set [...]
JVA Announces the 2025 JVA Best in Beach powered by VKTRY Performance Insoles
(July 2, 2025. Naperville, Illinois) The JVA is pleased to announce the 2025 JVA Best in Beach powered by VKTRY Performance Insoles that recognizes the nation’s top female JVA beach athletes for outstanding achievement [...]
An Athleader’s Journey: Creating Positive Change Through Volleyball
When Aiden started going to his sister's volleyball tournaments he was bored, and did a lot of sitting around. Then he started noticing the empty courts and ball carts, so he grabbed a ball [...]
News
The JVA Grant Program Launches to Increase Opportunity and Accessibility for Junior Volleyball
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) - The JVA is pleased to announce that it is launching the JVA Grant Program to promote the growth and accessibility of youth and junior volleyball by financially supporting JVA members in their [...]
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 [...]
JVA Sponsor Program Returns for 2022-2023 Season
The JVA is thrilled to announce the return of the JVA Sponsor Program for the upcoming 2022-2023 junior volleyball season. After taking a pause in mid 2020 amidst the pandemic, the JVA is pleased to [...]
Club Directors
Technology Solutions: 5 Essential Components of an Effective Cybersecurity Strategy
“How do you protect my personal and financial information?” If you haven’t yet fielded this question, it’s only a matter of time before you do. Consumers are becoming increasingly more aware that their private [...]
3 Ways to Increase Participation in Your Boys Volleyball Program
Junior volleyball clubs are seeing a spike in participation levels, especially at the high school divisions 15U-18U. Boys volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports in the U.S, with 36 states offering high [...]
Technology Solutions: 8 Tips to Avoid Email Phishing Scams
For most of us, it’s hard to remember when the term “phishing” wasn’t a part of everyday language. Yet, recognizing an email phishing scam is harder than you might think. Email hackers are great [...]
Coaches
12 Creative Scoring Ideas To Encourage Competitive Practices
The season is filled with opportunities to win and lose during tournament play. Most clubs organize some sort of scrimmage or intra-club competition early in the season to prepare their teams for the first [...]
Give your athletes the tools to improve their mental health
Athletes are a different breed of human, but they are still human. They deal with the daily stress of school, life, and playing their sport. They have emotions, anxiety, struggle, mental blocks, and self doubt. [...]
Coaching Mental Performance: Developing Rapport
It has been established that a good coach-athlete relationship is paramount for positive performance outcomes at the elite sport level (Gould & Maynard, 2009; Jowett & Shanmugam, 2016; Werthner & Coleman, 2009). In fact, [...]
Boys
From the JVA Office: Boys Volleyball is on the Rise and All Clubs Can Have an Impact
Boys volleyball is becoming increasingly popular, as many decide to leave the field and step onto the hard court. With the transition, male athletes are entering an entirely new competitive environment. In every sport male athletes are naturally driven to...
Plyometrics Vertical Training for Volleyball Athletes
If you don't have access to a gym or performance training coach, there are still ways to improve at home. Take your game to the next level with this equipment-free home workout to improve your vertical jump.
3 Ways to Develop Player Ambition
Our club runs several seasonal leagues, youth development programs, camps/clinics and club teams so I observe and work with a variety of volleyball athletes. Over the past couple of years I have noticed a growing trend among our youth...
Girls
3 Components that are Essential to Training the Vertical Jump
Volleyball is a sport where an athlete's vertical jump can make all the difference in performance whether it's blocking, attacking, or making a great defensive save. Here are three components necessary to elevate your vertical [...]
How Volleyball Athletes Can Gain Control of Your Thoughts
Have you ever been in a game and for some reason you can’t seem to get a grip on your actions and thoughts? You are making one mistake after another, even though you’ve done these [...]
Best Practices for Rest and Recovery in Junior Volleyball
The human body is built to withstand intense periods of physical strain and pressure. When a tournament runs multiple days, and into the late evening hours, players can rally and perform to their best abilities. [...]
Beach
3 Fun Ways to Improve Your Beach Game
Technique and skill in any sport will only get you so far. To be the best beach volleyball athlete or coach you can be, it is essential to also enjoy your experience and have fun. Founding coaches at Beach Nation...
2019 JVA Beach Watch List is Released
The JVA is pleased to announce the 2019 JVA Beach Watch List that recognizes the top female beach athletes from JVA member clubs across the country this season.
Beach Solutions: 7 Important Details to Create a Business Plan
When starting a beach club, it's important to do some business planning before you roll out the balls, especially if you'd like your club to be around for a while. To create a business plan there are seven important areas that affect the budget. Here's a checklist to get your club headed in the right direction.
Culture
Events
West Coast Volleyball Association Plans for Inaugural Junior Volleyball Season
This spring and summer many volleyball clubs across the country were forced to shut down and end their seasons abruptly. Directors were faced with so much uncertainty about what the next club season could look [...]
Beach Club Duals and Youth Program Serve Eager Junior Athletes in Milwaukee
The Frisco Mo Revolution Team Beach Battle formed this summer as a six-week league on Tuesday nights for a team of 3 pairs to compete as a squad against other squads on the sand. The [...]
Beach Program Adaptations During COVID-19
Beach coaches look forward to getting out on the sand every summer with the athletes in their program. However, this year has looked quite different as our country is facing unforeseen challenges with the pandemic [...]
Awards
Alliance Volleyball Wins JVA Club of the Month
Alliance Volleyball was founded in 2010 when two clubs (Impact and Select) merged into one, immediately making 60 girls teams in year one. Today, 28 teams train and The TOA Sports Performance Center, a [...]
JVA and Fivestar Announce a Partnership to Enhance the Recognition for Junior Volleyball Athletes
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The Junior Volleyball Association (JVA) is pleased to announce a partnership with Fivestar that will enhance the recognition given to all junior volleyball athletes during the JVA awards process. Fivestar is the first [...]
Minnesota Select Wins JVA Club of the Month
Minnesota Select was founded late in 2003 for the 2004 junior volleyball season. The club fielded 12 teams during that first year and has grown steadily over the past two decades to its current [...]
Training
How to incorporate volleyball specific yoga into your club training program
Some athletes and volleyball clubs currently have a pause from their typical volleyball training and routine. This can be a great time to evaluate where you currently are physically, and where you want to be. [...]
How to Manage Stress and Avoid Athlete Burnout in Times of Uncertainty
Feeling Tired? Lacking Motivation? You’re Not Alone! In the world of COVID-19, burnout is a true risk, particularly for athletes who are used to performing at high levels with many opportunities for feedback. Athletes do [...]
Volleyball Workout to Warm-up and Re-activate the Muscles
Injuries are always a possibility for youth athletes, but the risk of injury could be significantly higher with the return to training after spending the past couple of months outside of the gym. This is [...]
Parents
From the JVA Office: A Pro-Active Approach to Handling Over-Involved Parents
Tournament time has begun, which means club directors and coaches are beginning to identify the over-involved and over-bearing parents. It's easy to say that our focus needs to be on the kids and ignore the parents, but as we all know, the parents are as much our customers as the players are; in some cases, even more so. Here are some practices your club can apply to establish a healthy relationship between your club, coaches, and parents.
How Early is Too Early for a College Commitment?
As illustrated by a recent espnW article, early recruiting in women's sports is not limited to volleyball. For a variety of reasons, the recruiting cycle now begins as early as Junior High, and this trend will most likely continue until rules and regulations are adjusted for NCAA Division I volleyball programs, which is where the majority of early recruiting is noted. Many collegiate volleyball coaches are offering and receiving scholarship commitments from players who have yet to spend one day in high school.
3 Common Myths in the Volleyball Recruiting Process
Let's examine three myths that aim to detour the athletes from achieving maximum success in the recruiting process. The goal here is to uncover a few 'facts' that spur on not only athletes but also Club Directors and Recruiting Coordinators to heed the 'call to action'. Action that leads to results.
Recruiting
When the Pressure of the Recruiting Process Surfaces: Focus on Getting Better
The AAU and USAV National Championships are around the corner. On the forefront of every young athlete’s mind (that wants to play at the next level) is “what college coaches will be watching me?” or “how do I get...
A Letter to High School Athletes,
This is an exciting, yet stressful time for you. One sport, two sports, three sports, National Honors Society, mock governments, club or travel ball, SAT, ACT, GPA, and more – you have or will put a lot into your four years...
New Recruiting Legislation and Practical Application for Junior Volleyball Clubs
The NCAA Division I Council adopted new recruiting legislation on April 18, 2018. There has been a lot of conjecture out there over the past few days but it's best to adhere to the facts and support our athletes with the goal of educating and guiding them within the confines of the new legislation. Let's begin with the proposals that have been passed, the rationale, some side notes and practical applications of the rules.
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