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2024 JVA Best in Beach powered by Fivestar
(July 3, 2024. Milwaukee, Wisconsin) The JVA is pleased to announce the 2024 JVA Best in Beach powered by [...]
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Business Solutions: 4 Tips for Planning and Executing Your Volleyball Summer Camps
The idea of planning and executing summer camps can be daunting, especially after just completing a grueling club season schedule. Here are a few simple ways to break it down, minimize expenses and maximize [...]
From the JVA Office: Top Down Culture Breeds Success
“If you want a job done well, you must create the right conditions for it.” Adi Dassler (founder of Adidas) Culture is the DNA of an organization, and it's the core of my company, [...]
JVA and AAU Join Together to Host the Chi-Town Boys Challenge
The JVA is pleased to announce a collaboration with the AAU to co-host the Chi-Town Boys Challenge November 19-21, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. The event is expected to bring over 350 boys volleyball teams from [...]
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Club Directors
2019 JVA Boys Watch List
The JVA is pleased to announce the annual JVA Boys Watch List to recognize the top JVA boys athletes for outstanding achievement on the volleyball court. Boys high school volleyball is growing at a 21% rate over the last five years...
Central Jersey Volleyball Academy Wins JVA Club of the Month
Central Jersey Volleyball Academy (CJVA) was founded in 2005 out of the Somerville YMCA by Al Mottern. CJVA has grown significantly, from four teams in the first year to today, with 26 girls’ teams and 6 boys’ teams, as well as a very...
How to Create Better Sports Parents
Parents can set the precedent for the athlete's mental toughness. How parents behave and communicate before an event, during an event and after an event is the precedent that is set. It's important for a club director and coach to foster a learning environment for the parents so they can develop positive sports parenting habits. Here's a good place to start.
Coaches
A Free Coach’s Clinic Wrapped in Memories
An email pops into my inbox, it's the weekly fall/winter coed rec league I've volunteered to sub or play in for roughly 15 years. I've often described coed B as the place "old" setters go to hit, and as such, I eagerly volunteered when first asked by a neighbor to play 15 years ago. As has been custom the last few years, I have to respond that I'll be traveling for work or coaching a club or school team, and will miss the evening. You know it's been a while since you last played when you do show up, notice a brand new divider between the 4 courts, only to be told it was 3 years old now...
From the JVA Office: Tackling Team Selection at Club Tryouts
Club tryout procedure is a hot topic during this time of year as the club season gets underway. Every club has its own unique way of running a tryout and selecting teams, so we took a closer look. JVA reached...
The Cell Phone Policy: Where Do You Draw the Line?
Instead of running away from the reality of how today's society communicates, we want to be able to embrace the technology and give very specific guidelines as to how we want it used within our organization this season. Find out how Wisconsin Juniors stays transparent with electronic communication.
