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How to Help Volleyball Student-Athletes Manage Their Social Media Use
Many volleyball coaches, directors and parents didn’t grow up with social media, and have a difficult time knowing what [...]
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Technology Solutions: 20 Cyberattacks You Need to Know About to Protect Your Volleyball Club
Just when you thought it was safe to go outs… er, online, they dream up new ways to mess with us! When we think about cyberattacks, elaborate headline-making attacks often come to mind. [...]
An Athleader’s Journey: Leading Others to a Healthy Lifestyle
Vivian recalls how proud she was during her 12U club season when she learned how to overhand serve. At the young age of two Vivian was diagnosed with third degree heart block, and it [...]
2024-2025 JVA Sponsor Program Welcomes Record Participation from Girls, Boys, and Beach Volleyball Clubs
Milwaukee, WI — Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 The JVA is pleased to welcome the JVA Sponsor Clubs for the 2024-2025 junior volleyball girls, boys and beach season. This marks the 8th year that the [...]
News
JVA Announces the Line-Up for the 2021 JVA Challenge Series
The JVA is pleased to announce the 20 events named to the 2021 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6. These events share in the JVA’s ideology to provide safe, high quality events and a great [...]
JVA and FlipGive Partner to Help Clubs with Fundraising This Year
New Partnership Aims to Bring Virtual Fundraising to all Junior Volleyball Association’s Member Clubs and Families Milwaukee, WI (September 02, 2020) – Junior Volleyball Association, the leading junior volleyball organization providing programs, resources, and education [...]
JVA and TeamGenius Partner to Enhance Tryouts and Player Development
New strategic partnership delivers the latest player evaluation technology to the Junior Volleyball Association’s member clubs Milwaukee, WI (August 3rd, 2020) – Junior Volleyball Association, the leading junior volleyball organization providing programs, resources, and education [...]
Club Directors
Matchbox Volleyball Club Wins JVA Club of the Month
Matchbox Volleyball Club, based out of Aberdeen, South Dakota, is one of the largest club volleyball organizations in South Dakota and provides athletes ages 8-18 with a developmental and competitive volleyball experience. The club was [...]
Beach Solutions: Cohesion and Flexibility with Indoor Leads to Success
Madsand Beach started in 2017 with less than 10 athletes training with Founder Will Buchanan. At the time, Buchanan was coaching indoor for Madfrog Volleyball Club, one of the top indoor clubs in the region, [...]
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 [...]
Coaches
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. [...]
JVA Expands Partnership with The Art of Coaching
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (September 20, 2021) – The JVA and The Art of Coaching Volleyball are pleased to announce an extension of their partnership to continue offering wide-ranging resources for clubs, coaches, directors, players and volleyball [...]
Recruiting Solutions: 3 Factors Affecting the Recruiting Calendar
This year over 40% of clubs moved up their tryout dates to the summer before high school season begins to allow for more time to finalize tournament schedules, order uniforms, book travel and have plans [...]
Boys
Girls
Mental Health Guidance and Resources for Coaches, Athletes, and Parents
Youth sports create a wonderful opportunity for young athletes to learn and grow. Sports have been associated with many positive outcomes and opportunities such as creating active living habits, setting goals, providing social support, [...]
Recruiting Solutions: 3 Ways to Respond to the DI Recruiting Changes
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a [...]
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. [...]
Beach
JVA Beach Beginner Series: Training the Approach
Jumping in the sand is difficult enough, adding a volleyball to attack over the net makes the feat a very challenging one for beginner beach players. Wisconsin Juniors shares a three part progression to train their Beach VolleyKids how to...
JVA Announces 2017 JVA Beach Watch List
The JVA is excited to announce the 2017 JVA Beach Watch List that recognizes JVA beach players who are among the best in their age division this juniors beach season.
Beach Volleyball Shines in Summer – and now Beyond
The boom of beach volleyball is hardly set, with new clubs and tournaments constantly cropping up. But the sport's culture remains pure and party-centric. As NCAA's fastest-growing sport, starting with 15 Division I programs in 2012 and growing to 53 next season, beach volleyball is projected to top 100 collegiate programs by 2020. This huge influx of opportunities and scholarships for female student-athletes is having a big impact on the landscape of junior beach volleyball.
Culture
Events
Know Your Rights for Open Market and Gun Laws
As a facility owner making plans to host tournaments this year, are you happy with your options? Are you in a region that puts limits on your plans? Are you free to host the events that you need in order...
From the JVA Office: The Official Impact of a Volleyball Event
There are two keys to hosting a high quality volleyball event: (1) having competitive teams who elevate the level of play and (2) having great officials who love and understand the game. It is of utmost importance for the JVA to make...
From the JVA Office: The Importance of Giving Back
“It is such a joy to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.” Each season, JVA member clubs are showing their young athletes the joy of giving back in their communities or around the world. There are many different...
Awards
An AthLeader’s Journey: Alexa Austin’s Fight to Find a Cure
The saying "a memory will last a lifetime" has a different meaning for Alexa Austin. After losing her great-grandfather to Alzheimer's disease at the age of 11, Alexa began fundraising for a cure. So far her efforts have raised over $100,000 for Alzheimer’s Tennessee. Read Alexa's journey here.
An AthLeader’s Journey: Maddie Bonifas Finds True Passion through Personal Battle
Maddie Bonifas always self-inflicted a lot of pressure to be the best version of herself possible. But when her mother passed away from stage IV breast cancer, she found herself in a very dark place. Volleyball played a life saving...
An AthLeaders Journey: Legacy’s Kennedy Dolmage Realizes Her Passion to Make a Difference
Like many younger sisters, Kennedy served as her older sister's pepper partner, so it didn't take long for volleyball to become her passion. In the top tier of her class, the 2020 Ultra Ankle JVA AthLeader is driven to not only excel in school, but to make an impact on the lives of others. Here's her journey.
Training
3 Reasons Why Volleyball Players Need Strength and Conditioning
A volleyball-specific strength and conditioning program can optimize a player’s performance on the court. Whether athletes are still developing or competing at the highest level, spending time in the weight room building a strength foundation can be the difference...
The Landing Paradox: Training Volleyball Players to Jump and Land
The first lesson coaches and athletes should understand is that most volleyball players do not land, they fall, and if the ground was not there they would just continue falling. Simplifying the task to allow for the athlete to learn...
Responding to the Losses
In my early years of playing and coaching, winning matches came easily. Back then Iknew that if we worked hard, we were most likely going to win. During my collegecareer we won at least
Parents
Recruiting
What Parents Need to Hear
Over the past year, I have been leading 'Recruiting Sessions' for parents whose athletes attended various college showcases. As I was planning these sessions, my goal was to simplify the process and give parents 'real tools' to pass on to their athletes. Below is an outline that I use to begin each session, I like to call it 'Recruiting 101'.
Proposed NCAA Legislation: A Call to Action for Volleyball Clubs
Recently, the AVCA published an article in its blog regarding proposed legislation that could directly affect how PSA’s are recruited. With over 85% of collegiate volleyball athletes being recruited at the club level, the proposed legislation is a call to...
Don’t Play Volleyball This Summer
Now that I have your attention, let me clarify this seemingly crazy statement. Junior high and high school volleyball players who participate in club volleyball can be training almost year round. The transition from school volleyball immediately to club volleyball...
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