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Gameday Sports Academy Wins JVA Club of the Month
Gameday Sports Academy launched in 2021 as a boys-only volleyball club at Dignity Health Sports Complex, a state-of-the-art facility [...]
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Nearly 40 Beach Events Unite in the 2025 BVCA Club Challenge Series powered by JVA
The JVA is excited to announce that the 2024-2025 BVCA Club Challenge Series powered by the JVA is expanding to nearly 40 beach events across 15 states, a testament to the incredible cooperative effort of our [...]
Business Solutions: A Data-Driven Approach to Volleyball Club Salaries
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 [...]
2024 JVA Club Management Track and AVCA Convention Schedule
The JVA is excited to facilitate a long list of indoor and beach volleyball educational sessions at the 2024 AVCA Convention and NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championships in Louisville, Kentucky December 18-22, 2024. [...]
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Club Directors
From the JVA Office: Modifications and Considerations for Fall and Winter Competition
We are all anticipating that this club season will look different from years past. Typically, club directors map out a 6-8 month club season with 8-12 tournaments on the calendar by the end of September. [...]
From the JVA Office: Ways to Weather the Storm
Adapting to a global pandemic has a steep learning curve. The lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 shutdown will continue to teach and test volleyball directors as the club season approaches and the outbreak evolves. How [...]
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 [...]
Coaches
4 Ways to Keep Volleyball Athletes Engaged
Researchers estimate that in the United States there are between 21 and 28 million youth, ages 8 to 17, that participate in organized sports. According to a poll from the National Alliance for Youth Sports, around 70 percent of kids in the United States stop...
Beach Setting Basics
Stein Metzger just led UCLA to its first beach volleyball national title in school history. When he is not busy winning collegiate championships, Stein wears another hat, Club Director of Los Angeles Beach Volleyball Club. The JVA Club Director shares...
Here Comes the Boom: The Real Facts on Concussions and 4 Ways to Minimize Head Injuries in Your Gym
Concussions in volleyball are an all too common occurrence. According to a 2015 study in PT in Motion News, volleyball players report a rate of 3.57 concussions per 10,000 exposures. An exposure is equivalent to one practice or one match. This number may...
















