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JVA Announces the 2026 JVA Boys’ Watch List powered by VKTRY Performance Insoles
(Naperville, IL) JVA announces the top male volleyball athletes in the country nominated for the 2026 JVA Boys’ Watch [...]
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Technology Solutions: How to Protect Your Volleyball Club from a DDoS Attack
Can a DDoS attack cripple A volleyball club? You bet! See how hackers forced this small firm to shut its doors overnight. In 2013, a promising software development hosting company, called Code Spaces, launched [...]
Considerations for the Boys Indoor Junior Volleyball Season
Indoor volleyball is the #1 team participatory sport in high school and college for girls. Over the past five years, boys indoor high school volleyball has been the fastest growing team sport by percentage [...]
NIL Basics for Volleyball Club Directors, Coaches, and Parents
Preparing Your Volleyball Athletes for Future Opportunities With Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) now a part of the college sports landscape, volleyball athletes have the opportunity to benefit financially from their personal brand. While [...]
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2019 JVA Challenge Series
The JVA is now accepting applications for the 2019 JVA Challenge Series, a series of elite tournaments hosted by JVA member clubs across the country. Learn how you can be a part of the nation's elite volleyball 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...
Tamarack Beach Volleyball Club Wins JVA Club of the Month
Tamarack Beach Volleyball Club was founded in the Summer of 2013 in Carlsbad as a small year-round boutique beach club with only 4 athletes. The goal was to train the fundamentals of the game as well as high level beach volleyball skills...
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Northeast Point Series Creates a New Power League to Advance Boys Volleyball in the Northeast
The Northeast Point Series is entering its inaugural season with the creation of a boys power league hosted by its four founding clubs (1) Niagara Frontier Volleyball (Buffalo, NY), (2) A-10 Volleyball (Pittsburgh, PA), (3) [...]
JVA Releases Slate of Events for 2023 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6
The JVA is pleased to announce the 29 events named to the 2023 JVA Challenge Series presented by i6. All JVA Challenge Series hosts share in the JVA’s ideology to provide a high quality, safe [...]
Recruiting Solutions: Early Season Meeting with Your Club Athletes and Parents
The recruiting process can be very overwhelming to the athletes and parents. Clear, open and honest communication is key to a successful process that helps your athletes achieve their goal of playing in college. Here [...]
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A Summary of the Girls 18’s Indoor Championships Survey Results
This past summer, we posted an article about the various options that U-18’s have to finish their season. We also addressed feedback from some of the coaches who attended the various championships, and concluded with a survey to gather...
Train Your Teams to Officiate and Keep Score
Once tournament play begins, it is apparent which clubs have done their due diligence to train and prepare the athletes for their work team responsibilities, and which ones have not spent the time. Every director should make it a priority...
Attacking Drills to Train Proper Technique and Eliminate Bad Habits
To develop proper attacking technique it's important to break down specific steps for athletes to follow. Repetition on proper technique will create good habits as will reception on improper technique will create bad habits. Here are drills to train proper attacking habits, and eliminate the bad ones.
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Responsibilities and Expectations of a Setter
A setter has many responsibilities and expectations are very high for this position. She is the player that runs the court and is ultimately in charge of the offense. Let's take a look at the various responsibilities and expectations of a setter in hopes that during this season coaches can help their setters take on these responsibilities, and players can set goals to meet these expectations.
A Driving Force in the Volleyball World
I think we can all agree that Social Media Platforms have taken over as the main mode of information dissemination for both business and personal use. We have discovered over the past few years how extremely important our social media...
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...
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Summit Volleyball Wins JVA Club of the Month
The name Summit Volleyball is derived from two different meanings. A summit is the highest attainable point, which is what the Summit program reaches towards every day. Secondly, the club is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, whose nickname is the...
Beach Elite Wins JVA Club of the Month
Virginia Beach Volleyball Academy (Virginia Beach, VA) was founded 10 years ago this year. 6 years ago Beach Elite became the juniors program name and over the past few years this club has found ways to introduce the indoor and beach game...
Announcing the 2016 JVA Sponsor Clubs
You may notice a lot of JVA logos on the jerseys of your opponents this season. That was the case at the 2015 AAU National Volleyball Championships. For the second year in a row, the Junior Volleyball Association is giving over...
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