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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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Technology Solutions: 4 Ways to Protect Your Volleyball Business from the Latest Scam
“Sign in using your Google Account.” It’s a convenient and trusted way to access critical services using your existing Google credentials. Unfortunately, hackers have found a way to weaponize this service and potentially access [...]
JVA Presents the 2025 JVA Beach Watch List powered by VKTRY Performance Insoles
The JVA is pleased to announce the 2025 JVA Beach Watch List presented by VKTRY Performance Insoles that recognizes the top female beach athletes from JVA member clubs this season. Nearly 300 JVA beach [...]
Inside the NCAA Settlement: Financial Implications for the Future of Collegiate Beach Volleyball
It is the dawn of a new era in collegiate athletics. The landmark NCAA House Settlement has finally been approved. The settlement ends three separate antitrust lawsuits alleging that the NCAA unlawfully limited the [...]
News
Griffin Elected to Another Term on the JVA Board of Directors
(Milwaukee, WI) The JVA is pleased to announce that Maggie Griffin has been re-elected to the JVA Board of Directors for a third term. Maggie is the Owner and Director of VCNebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. [...]
JVA Announces the Recipients of the 2021 JVA Junior Club Service Award
“Coaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what you are doing in your practices, if your players are not learning something significant, you're really not coaching. If a player [...]
JVA and VLA Partner to Promote the Growth of Boy’s and Men’s Volleyball
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (October 11, 2021) – The JVA is excited to announce an extended partnership with the Volleyball League of America to bring professional men's volleyball to the junior volleyball audience across the country. "We [...]
Club Directors
Beach Solutions: Practice Considerations to Maximize Potential and Develop Talent
Whether a beach program has 10 participants or 100, coaches need to have a plan in place to challenge the athletes who are advanced, while also keeping the players on the lower court motivated [...]
Pulse Volleyball Wins JVA Club of the Month
When Pulse was established in 2014, there were no boys' volleyball clubs in existence in the inland Orange County region. After many conversations, the Hart family took the leap of faith to start a [...]
Business Solutions: The Responsibilities and Impact of a Parent Liaison
Absolute Volleyball Academy, just south of Houston, was formed in 2006 and today has grown to 34 girls travel teams. Matthew Gotsch started as the Parent Liaison for Absolute Volleyball Academy in 2019 after [...]
Coaches
Club Training Model: The First 6 Weeks
The first month of season is filled with excitement and eagerness to hit the ground running at the first few practices. It's common for girls teams to begin training around this time, in mid-November, [...]
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 [...]
Boys
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.
JVA Announces 8 Recipients of the JVA Junior Club Service Award
The growth of our sport, along with the consistent success of the JVA would not exist without the dedication and loyalty of the coaches, club directors and administrators of JVA member clubs. This year the JVA is honoring 8 individuals from...
Helping Boys Volleyball Players Find a Home
Although many areas still lack opportunities for boys volleyball, there has been a recent push to grow the sport. It's exciting to see colleges add mens volleyball, as witnessed with the recent NCAA Division III explosion. As more junior volleyball clubs attempt to add boys volleyball, the next step is to educate the players about the college options that are available for them to continue their careers beyond high school. Here's a look at the boys volleyball recruiting timeline and what college coaches are looking for in a recruitable student athlete.
Girls
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 [...]
3 Ways Volleyball Athletes Can Overcome the Social Media Timelines
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you somebody else” - E.E Cummings “Should I post the picture at 3:00pm right when everyone gets out of [...]
JVA Proudly Releases the 2021 Ultra Ankle JVA All-National Team
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (June 2, 2021) The JVA is pleased to announce the 79 student athletes selected to the 2021 Ultra Ankle® JVA All-National Team, which recognizes the top female indoor volleyball players competing for a [...]
Beach
Warm-Up Drill That Will Elevate Your Beach Game
Having a great warm-up routine is an important step toward being a successful beach athlete and competitor. Brooke Niles shares one of her favorite beach warm-up drills and why it checks off all the boxes when it comes to preparing...
Beach Club Duals: Formatting Options to Adopt Club vs Club Competition at the Junior Level
A fast-growing beach volleyball tournament format is the “Club vs. Club” or “School vs. School” format, generally referred to as a dual tournament. This is the format that made it practical for the NCAA to adopt beach volleyball. The Club...
4 Serving Strategies to Score More Points
Serving is a critical part of the game. By using certain techniques, a team can optimize the ability to use the serve to score points. Here are 4 beach serving strategies that will help you score more points from the service...
Culture
Events
Virus Precautions and Recommendations
May 15, 2020 Update We are all closely following the evolution of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and based on the most recent updates, the Junior Volleyball Association is recommending that all JVA member clubs and tournament [...]
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 [...]
From the JVA Office: Cooperation Among the Highest Levels Governing Our Sport Strengthens the Common Good
JVA, as a professional association of Club Directors and their staff, is committed to supporting our member clubs outside of networking, education and resources. We are often called upon to advocate for our members, and [...]
Awards
210 Beach Wins JVA Club of the Month
210 Beach was formed by Jason Kaiser in 2012 as a small training group for his daughter, Maja, and a few other athletes to get reps after the indoor season. The training group competed [...]
JVA Proudly Releases the 2021 Ultra Ankle JVA All-National Team
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (June 2, 2021) The JVA is pleased to announce the 79 student athletes selected to the 2021 Ultra Ankle® JVA All-National Team, which recognizes the top female indoor volleyball players competing for a [...]
JVA Announces the 2021 Ultra Ankle JVA Athleaders
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN (May 17, 2021)– The JVA is pleased to announce the 2021 Ultra Ankle® JVA AthLeaders who exemplify academic excellence, outstanding volleyball performance, leadership, responsibility, and selflessness through community service. This group of athletes [...]
Training
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.
The Life-Changing Coach
There is no greater or more important person than a coach. And while I often state that everyone is an athlete, but our office is just different, everyone is also a coach. When things go bad with people and society...
Anxious vs. Confident: How to Instill Confidence in Your Athletes
A volleyball coach is all too familiar with the dread that can affect a player in serve receive during a tight match. Coaches see it on the athlete’s face and the athlete certainly feels it. The face seems to...
Parents
5 Keys to a Positive Relationship Between Your Parents, Players and Coaches
Now more than ever, parents are very involved (some would say "over-involved") with their sons and daughters club careers that you must be ready for just about anything. But in order to maintain a positive club culture a positive relationship...
Choosing a Volleyball Club
You’ve figured out what age division you need to play in. You’ve identified a few clubs in your area. Now for the hard part: picking just ONE club to play for during the upcoming season.
Can a Parent Council Help Your Club?
By Sharon L. Galonski, Club Director, Next Level VBC (This article is Part II. To read Part I click here.) I did it! After tryouts were completed, teams were selected, uniforms were ordered, and practices began, each competitive team within...
Recruiting
2 Areas of Preparation for Volleyball Players
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin's famous quote can be applied to the start of club volleyball recruiting season that kicks off this weekend. If you don't prepare for a successful recruiting season, then you will not have a successful recruiting season. Here are two areas of preparation for volleyball players in the early part of the club recruiting season.
4 Ways to Reach Out to College Coaches
For college coaches, the regular season has ended (except if the program made the NCAA tournament) and the crazy season has started. Crazy season? This is the time of year when college coaches conduct end of the season player meetings...
Recruiting Club Level vs. High School
Current polls tell us that over 85% of college coaches recruit at the club level versus high school. There are legitimate reasons for the majority of collegiate recruiting in the sport of volleyball to be tied to club volleyball. Of course...
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