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Coaching Solutions: Identifying a Winning Line-Up for Your Volleyball Team
In the first half of the club volleyball season coaches are likely to try a little bit of everything. [...]
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2025 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6
Milwaukee, WI — Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 The JVA is pleased to announce the return of the highly anticipated 2025 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6. The series features 25 premier volleyball tournaments designed [...]
Junior Volleyball Club Survey Data Analysis
The JVA surveyed a diverse landscape of junior volleyball clubs across the country with the goal of capturing key trends and data points that can guide decisions for junior volleyball club leaders. Below is [...]
How to Make Smarter Decisions for Your Volleyball Organization by Using Data and Analytics
The plight of a youth sports organizer is a complex one. By day, you’re a coach, mentor, trainer, and organizer who makes sure programming runs smoothly, games start on time, kids are where they [...]
News
JVA Announces Partnership with USSCI to Protect Volleyball Clubs and Youth Athletes Nationwide
The JVA is pleased to announce a partnership with USSCI to help volleyball athletes that are impacted by the unexpected. Every year thousands of athletes find themselves unable to play the sport they love due [...]
High Performance STL Wins JVA Club of the Month
The 2020 season marked High Performance STL’s 20th season. Beginning in 2000 the club was founded as a boy’s club by a group of likeminded individuals that all had common values and goals. They had [...]
26 Student Athletes Honored as 2020 Ultra Ankle JVA AthLeaders
The JVA is pleased to announce the indoor junior volleyball athletes selected as 2020 Ultra Ankle® JVA AthLeaders. This year the JVA awards committee has selected 6 male and 20 female student athletes who are [...]
Club Directors
360 Sports Academy Wins JVA Club of the Month
360 Sports Academy Volleyball was founded in 2011 with one team comprised of girls ages 14 to 18. During the first season, the team competed at the 18U level and went winless. Fast forward to [...]
Business Solutions: The Responsibilities and Impact of a Director of Coaching
In 2021, Michigan Volleyball Academy was in the process of expanding to other locations and adding additional teams. Directors Craig and Mayme Vlietstra recognized the challenging task of filling many new coaching positions, so they [...]
3 Steps to Boosting Your Club’s Brand through Social Media
It’s tournament season and award season at JVA, and there’s no better time to honor the dedication and loyalty of your athletes than now. Congratulate your teams and individual award winners by giving them [...]
Coaches
Beach Timeout Management
There are two timeout scenarios: a timeout taken by your team, and a timeout taken by the opponent. While it always feels better when the score is in your favor and the opponent calls the [...]
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 [...]
Boys
Girls
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 [...]
Recruiting Solutions: Dispelling the Myths of Junior College Volleyball
Santa Fe College located in Gainesville, Florida was built from the ground up, with its first ever season in 2014. Rather than share advice on videos and recruiting tips, this piece advocates an overlooked opportunity [...]
How to show volleyball coaches your coachability during the recruiting dead period
The NCAA Division 1 Council Coordination Committee extended the recruiting dead period for all sports through August 31, further delaying recruiting activity this summer for many athletes and college programs. However, there are still things [...]
Beach
JVA Beach Beginner Series: Stance, Movement and Spacing
The beach beginner series is designed to teach basic movement and technique for excelling in beach volleyball. The beginner beach series is lead by Rob Long, Director of Ohio Valley Next Level Beach. Many coaches and directors interested in starting...
Beach Volleyball Provides Perfect Compliment for Indoor Volleyball Clubs
As beach volleyball grows in popularity, clubs with indoor instruction are expanding programming to meet the interests of their athletes. In turn, clubs are finding competing on sand has given their players improved mental stamina, physical endurance and a deeper...
JVA to Recognize Players on the 2017 JVA Beach Watch List
The JVA is excited to announce that nominations for the JVA Beach Watch List will open on April 17th. The JVA Beach Watch List recognizes JVA beach players who are expected to be among the best in their age division...
Culture
Events
Securing a Hotel Block for Your Volleyball Event Without a Stay to Play Policy
The U.S. hotel industry has seen eight straight years in revenue growth, and forecasts point to the highest hotel occupancies in 2018 since the 1980’s. In general, hotel room rates seem higher than in the past – and they are! There...
The Development of Talent in the Twin Cities
Two JVA member clubs in Minnesota have been running one of the most competitive and collaborate season-long competition series in the Midwest for ten years. The Molten Series is a joint effort between Club Directors Doug Bergman of Mizuno M-...
3 Steps to Take When Hosting a New Volleyball Event
Running a successful volleyball tournament can be a great asset for a club, however it's important to make sure you do your homework prior to jumping into the tournament landscape. With the number of events being offered not every event is guaranteed to be successful. Here are a few tips to consider before starting your own volleyball tournament, along with a tournament checklist.
Awards
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.
S3 Volleyball Wins JVA Club of the Month
S3 Volleyball, short for Southern Select Sand Volleyball, was founded in 2014, around the same time that a massive multi-sport venue called LakePoint Sporting Community opened 35 minutes north of Atlanta. In collaboration with RallyVB out of LakePoint, the two parties agreed...
2019 Ultra Ankle JVA All-National Teams Announced
The JVA is pleased to announce the 82 athletes selected to the 2019 Ultra Ankle® JVA All-National Team, which recognizes the top female indoor volleyball players competing for a JVA member club in the 15s-18s divisions.
Training
In-Season Volleyball Strength and Conditioning
What happens to strength training as clubs get deep into competition season? How do athletes take advantage of the strength and endurance they have built up so far? Even mid-season, explosiveness and acceleration are traits that can be improved with...
Volleyball Building Blocks: Power Circuit
The BridgeAthletic Building Block Series is a set of 5 exercises that can be performed by volleyball players of all levels with limited equipment needs. This building block is designed as a power circuit to mix in with your regular practice...
5 Mental Steps to Tournament Success
It’s that time of the season when teams have put in the hours building up strength and conditioning, perfecting skill sets, and running offensive and defensive schemes. The goal is to translate all that preparation into tournament-winning volleyball that...
Parents
Recruiting
There is No Magic Formula to Recruiting
There is no pulling a commitment out of a hat...there is no amount of abra cadabras that will get you an offer from the college of your dreams. No concoction of # of calls + # of emails + # of times you hit...
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.
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