S Club 7 – 1.07 – Miami 7 – Volleyball – Part One
S Club 7 – 1.07 – Miami 7 – Volleyball – Part One
how to play volleyball
sydney olympics volleyball russia vs usa semi finals
how to play volleyball
Get Ready for the Miva Volleyball Club 2009 Season Tournaments
A number of conference schools perform in the men’s volleyball at the club level. A number of events are scheduled to take place starting from February 2009, which include the HIC season tournament or Hoosier Illini Classic, Grand Valley State Lake Challenge, Black and Gold Spring Challenge, Titan Invitational and Grand Valley State Laker Season Closer.
Hoosier Illini Classic tournament is one of the largest and regular volleyball tournaments if the season in the Midwest. The tournament will be played between 32 teams at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN from Saturday, 21 February to Sunday, 22 February 2009. This year will be the 8th Annual HIC, with the pool play and challenge round on Saturday and the single elimination playoffs on Sunday.
The Grand Valley State Laker Challenge will be held between 18 volleyball teams at the Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (Grand Rapids). The volleyball game will start on Sunday 22 February, 2009 at 8am and will be played between separate A and B Divisions. Black and Blue teams from the GVSU Men’s Club Volleyball will play in the GVSU Laker Challenge Tournament. GVSU Black, GVSU Blue, MSU White, MSU 3, Sienna Heights, Purdue B, GLCC, Far Out, Western Michigan A and Western Michigan B will participate in the event.
The GVSU Midnight Jam will also take place in February, and will be held on Friday 27 February. This is a very popular event among the college volleyball fans. The participating teams for this event include GVSU Black, GVSU Blue, MSU Green, MSU 3, GLCC, Far Out and Western Michigan A.
Black and Gold Spring Challenge will be a 2 day tournament to be played between 24 teams at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA from Saturday 7 March 2009 to Sunday 8 March 2009. This will be the 1st annual Black and Gold Spring Challenge. Trophies for Bronze, Silver and Gold championship will be given to winners of this 2 day tournament. 5 matches have been guaranteed to be played on Saturday, with the pool play beginning at 8:30 am.
The Titan Invitational volleyball tournament will be hosted by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI from Saturday 14 February to Sunday 15 February 2009. A total of 24 teams are scheduled to play in the event. This is an annual women’s volleyball tournament.
The closer for Grand Valley State Laker Season will take place on Sunday, 22 March 2009 at the Grand Valley State Universirty, Allendale, MI (Grand Rapids). A total of 18 teams will participate in this great event which will start at 8am on Sunday. This event will be the last chance for MIVA’s separate A and B Divisions to gear up. GVSU Black, GVSU Blue, Sienna Heights, Western Michigan A, Western Michigan B, GLCC, Far Out and Eastern Michigan B will participate in the event, along with several others.
Club Volleyball Review For The Circus Volleyball Club
A fun name for a fun club. A mainstay on Chicago’s club volleyball scene, Circus Volleyball club was founded thirty years ago by Dave Boze, who started the the club with one freshman team in 1980. Dave, who was nicknamed “Bozo” gave the new volleyball club its name in reference to its being called “Dave Boze’s Circus.” Circus is the oldest club in the Great Lakes Region and for the 2009-2010 season has six teams. One 18s, four 16s, and one 14s team.
The club’s mission, as stated on its site is “to teach student athletes who value education and wish to play volleyball at a highly competitive level of play. To dedicate, discipline and commit themselves to practice not more than 8 hours weekly. Love for the game with the highest level of competitiveness. To teach the meaning of commitment, team composition and focus on advancement above winning.”
Rich Vrba has been the director of this relatively small club with approximately 200 members for ten years. Despite its size, Circus has a rich history in competing and winning at the AAU National tournaments and competitions, where it garnered four national titles, five silver medals and three times finished third–all within a short time after the club’s birth.
Circus volleyball club coaches are former high school and college volleyball players and coaches who’ve coached at the club anywhere from two to seven years.
A club program that embraced the importance of traveling and international competition beginning in the early 80s, Circus teams have competed overseas in the Virgin Islands, Denmark, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Stockholm and Copenhagen. In the 90s Circus continued to travel and play domestically in locations that included New Orleans, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and Key West. To be the best you have to play the best, and so Circus volleyball club players travel to compete currently in some of the largest junior club volleyball tournaments located in Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri.
The club is based out of Jane Addams Junior High School and boasts a significant number of players who have received college volleyball scholarships. “Since 1980, 110 Circus graduates received college scholarships to over 70 different universities.” A few Circus alumni players include:
Liz Berg – North Carolina
Chris White – Michigan
Lindsay Trudell – Indiana University
Vikki Simonis – University of the Pacific
Karen Staab – Minnesota
Kristin Roman – Wisconsin
Karlin Sander – Southwest Missouri
Cindy Novak – Bradley
Kim Norris – Regis
Kim Neiman – Purdue
Katie Meyer – Rice
Marianne Nance – North Carolina
Katie Lotarski – Florida State
Debbie Lund – Miami-Ohio
Sara Aldrich – Georgia Tech
Jessi Bornack – University of Connecticut
Heather Brewster – Eastern Illinois
More Volleyball Articles
Club Volleyball Review For The Canby Volleyball Club
The mission of the Canby Volleyball Club is to teach the various aspects of the game to willing players who are ready to learn that there is more to the sport of volleyball than simply chasing a ball.
A non profit organization, that conducts frequent fundraising activities, Canby VBC accepts girls from grade levels four through 12 and this year has six girls teams in the following age brackets:
12 Blue, 14 Blue, 14 Blue, 16 Blue, 16 White, 18 White. Fundraising events have included staffing the concession stand at home games, selling calendars and/or Entertainment Books and ESPN Coaches Fundraising. These fundraising events are facilitated to offset club dues. Canby players who participate directly in these fundraising projects get the profits credited to their accounts.
Well-known in Canby and surrounding areas this girls’ volleyball club offers its junior participants the possibility to become familiar with how to deal with the stressful situations that occur in tournament play along with the pressure that comes with being on the road.
Canby volleyball players are also taught the importance of team building, how to create and maintain team spirit and the elements of tactical play.
Like most clubs, the girls who sign up with Canby are probably interested in learning college prep volleyball skills, with most of the junior volleyball players training hard in hopes for a spot on a college volleyball roster. But even for those who may choose a different path in life, many of the skills they learn at the Canby Volleyball Club are sure to be useful elsewhere whether on the court or off. These include stress management, maintaining calm under pressure, and leadership, lessons that players take with them as they enter in the business world, other sports, and any other group projects they might undertake or participate in.
Founded in 1996, Canby is considered by many to not just be a college prep volleyball club, but as a place that provides lessons in life skills where girls have the added benefit of learning how to play volleyball.
Like most clubs, Canby club volleyball players are coached by current and retired coaches, and former and current college players willing to share their knowledge with the junior participants. Canby VBC-hosted volleyball tournaments are held one to three times a month from the beginning of January to the end of March at Ackerman Middle School and Canby High School.
Monthly board meetings are held at the local pizza joint and presided over by the president and director of the Canby Volleyball Club, Debbie Turrentine.
More Volleyball Articles
Club Volleyball Review For The Dunes Volleyball Club
With the motivation to give club volleyball a makeover director Rick Ashmore created the Dunes Volleyball Club in 1989.
In 21 years, Dunes VBC has produced an impressive number of junior volleyball players who’ve gone on to continue playing volleyball in higher education institutions. For 2010 players have signed letters of intent to attend West Point Academy, Bethel College, Saint Francis College, University of Indianapolis, Trine University, St. Francis University, and Indiana State University.
The Dunes Volleyball Club practices are in eight different locations with the primary location held at the impressive Dunes Operation Center located in Rolling Prairie, Indiana and also serves as the site for the Dunes May Classic. With over 60 teams in all age brackets the 2010 May Classic will be on Saturday May 15 and Sunday May 16.
Speaking of tournaments, the various Dunes elite volleyball team players garner significant experience playing from January to June in the Lake Michigan Power League and traveling to volleyball tournaments all over the country including the President’s Day Tourney in Bloomington, IL, the Indy Juniors Classic and Team Indiana Classic in Indianapolis, Sports Performance in Aurora, Wisconsin Dells Invitational, Best of America in Kalamazoo, Michigan, National Junior Classic in Aurora, the Sports Performance President’s Day Tournament in Schaumberg, the Team Indiana Exposure Event, the Sports Performance National Junior Classic, the MVA Showcase in Grand Rapids and of course everyone’s at the AAU Nationals in Orlando Florida.
Dunes VBC has grown into a very large junior volleyball program, which this year in the elite team category hosts four 18s, two 17s, three 16s, four 15s, four 14s, three 13s, two 12s and one 11s volleyball teams that have coaches with significant experience playing the game and also coaching on the high school level.
In the Dunes local and regional category the club sponsors five 17s, four 16s, two 15s, thirteen 14s, three 13s, six 12s, one 11s and two 10s volleyball teams. Dunes offers the local team volleyball option to athletes not yet ready to make a six-month commitment to volleyball and who often play other sports that keep them from six-month volleyball participation. These teams “play five play dates and practice once a week and then either practice or play on Sunday.”
2010 Summer High School volleyball camps are held in July. For varsity, junior varsity and freshmen teams. The cost per team is very economical and hasn’t changed in a couple of years which probably explains why in 2009 over 25 schools with 65 teams participated. Teams camps are three sessions-a-day and team drills against other teams, controlled scrimmages and tournament play is what participants can expect.
Club Volleyball Review For The Starlings Volleyball Club
Visitors to the Starlings Volleyball Club website at www.starlings.org will be greeted by a club volleyball experience that is markedly different from other girls’ volleyball clubs. At Starlings, the ability to pay is second to the enjoyment of the game, and as such the monthly and annual dues are lower than any other junior volleyball can claim.
Moreover, Starlings Volleyball Club is proud of the fact that thus far nobody has been turned away from the leagues simply because they were unable to make the payments. Starlings have member clubs in major cities across the nation and as such promote academics in conjunction with athletics.
At this point in time, Starlings Volleyball Club can proudly point to more than 200 girls who have been recipients of college prep volleyball practice that prepared them to go on and play college volleyball on full scholarships. When you take a look at the pictures of the girls training at the Starlings Volleyball Club centers you are most likely initially taken in by the pure joy and fun they have while playing.
There is little of the drudgery that accompanies so many other volleyball clubs. Instead, it is a solid belief in their core philosophy that girls who are actively involved in sports have a 92% lower chance of getting hooked on drugs while at the same time being three times as likely to become high school grads. This alone justifies the many fundraisers the members of the Starlings Volleyball Club put on to fund their endeavors.
Another reason why Starlings Volleyball Club is such an important club for families and their girls is their insight that unlike any other sports, volleyball is uniquely fitted for girls. It is not a contact sport and yet it is a team sport; it is perfect for building up self esteem and it is easy to learn, even for the novice. The concept that sets the Starlings Volleyball Club apart was founded by Byron Shewman in 1995, and since then other athletes have come forward to undertake the opening of branches in assorted cities.
World league 07 best hits and rallys
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Find More Volleyball Articles
Club Volleyball Reviews: Volleyball Voices Looks At The Eastside Volleyball Club, Inc
Having put the “a” in “ambitious” in regards to assisting their junior volleyball players with receiving college offers the Eastside Volleyball Club has adopted a proactive system to its college recruitment program.
Eastside VBC hosts Recruiting Combines held at various locations for the purpose of recording data for Speed, Power, Agility, Reaction, and Quickness of participating volleyball players. After the physical information is registered, players have a chance to demonstrate their positions in simulated game situations. Players are designated by a numbering system utilizing arm bands and the data compiled at each event is distributed on the player’s behalf by Eastside VBC to recruiters that are present at the event or request the information from club director Tim Van de Schraaf.
Located at 1621 Highview Road in East Peoria, Illinois, Eastside VBC is considered one of the foremost junior volleyball clubs in the area and has positioned itself to be the kind of committed club volleyball program the future college volleyball player and/or the future recreational volleyball player will seek out first.
2010 Junior Events Schedule
The Eastside VBC offers a volleyball tournament series that features the use of premier venues at the University of Illinois – Activity and Recreation Center (Champaign), Illinois Wesleyan – Shirk Center (Bloomington), Hidden Cove (Bourbonnais), and River Plex (Peoria).
They also host tournaments at the River Plex (Peoria, IL), Eastern Illinois University (Chaleston, IL), and each volleyball team that participates in the Eastside VBC series is guaranteed 5-7 matches (two-day event) and 3-5 matches (one-day event).
2010 Volleyball Incentive Program, VIP Program
Eastside VBC offers a volume discount for programs that enter multiple teams and dates. Information regarding the Eastside VIP (Volleyball Incentive Program) can be found on the club website.
Players who come to Eastside VBC can expect to receive quality instruction, make new friendships, increased discipline, exposure to college recruiters, top level competition, conditioning for volleyball during practice drills, leaderships skills, education, and fun.
Eastside VBC offers volleyball to players of all ages including the youngest and most inexperienced who can sign up for VolleyKids I and VolleyKids II program for beginners. It is open to boys and girls aged 7 to 11 and offers league style play. The commitment is roughly the same time frame as the regular season, but it is the kind of league perfect for the complete novice. This program is new to the Eastside Volleyball Club and headed up by Diane Lauterbach.
Olympian and local celebrity Caren Kemner is scheduled to conduct a series of skills clinics which cover training and education on basic to advanced parts of the game on all volleyball technique.
Club Volleyball Review For Peninsula Juniors Volleyball Club
When it comes to junior volleyball, the Peninsula Juniors is not one of the largest clubs but it may very well have some of the most experienced coaching staffs and mentors.
One would be very hard-pressed to find a better consultant or mentor than Coaching Consultant & Mentor – Don Shaw.
In 26 years, Don Shaw established Stanford University as a national powerhouse coaching both men & women’s teams. He was named AVCA National Coach of the Year (1991), Volleyball Magazine Coach of the Year (1997), Regional/District Coach of the Year (’92, ’94, ’97) & Conference Coach of the Year (’85, ’87, ’91, ’97).
Shaw has coached nine (9) Olympians, 44 All-Americans and 20 USA National Team members. The list includes 1988 Men’s Olympic Gold Medalists Jon Root and Scott Fortune, as well as US National Team Volleyball Setter and 2008 Gold Medalist Kevin Hansen.
Five of his Stanford women’s players earned seven (7) National Player of the Year honors: Kim Oden (1984, 1985), Bev Oden (1990), Kristin Klein (1991), Cary Wendell (1994, 1995) and current two-time Olympic Beach Volleyball Gold Medalist Kerri Walsh (1999).
Well-known among his peers as an outstanding clinician and ambassador of the game of volleyball, Don Shaw was the director of the Stanford Volleyball Camps (which he co-founded) for more than 20 years in addition to conducting numerous clinics and camps all over the U.S. and Canada.
Hitting Clinic Coach – Kim Oden
There isn’t enough paper here to list the accolades for Kim Oden, two-time Olympian, Bronze medalist and National Volleyball Team Captain who is the hitting clinic coach for the Peninsula Juniors Volleyball club. This Stanford graduate and three-time Division I All American has played volleyball professionally overseas in Turkey, Italy, China and Brazil. Kim was a member of the Budlight 4-woman professional beach volleyball tour from 1993-1997.
As far as her coaching resume is concerned, Kim was the head varsity girl’s volleyball coach at St. Francis High School for six years starting from 2002 to 2008 at which her team won the California State Championship in 2002 and 2003. She was an assistant coach at Stanford University and was a contributing staff member for the 2001 National Championship Team.
The Peninsula Juniors coaching staff includes setting clinic coach Katie Goldhahn who graduated from Stanford from 2002 to 2006 and was a member of the Stanford Women’s Volleyball team, winning the NCAA Division I National Championship in 2004. She has coached for a number of clubs in Northern California including Delta Valley Volleyball Club, Palo Alto Elite, and Vision Volleyball Club.
Former PJRVBC player Shelley Signori is the first strength and conditioning coach.
There are twenty other qualified coaches, two per team, each certified in USA Volleyball IMPACT training, the Positive Coaching Alliance, and first aid including Denis Sheldon and Anne Marr with 16-Gold, Julianna Hernandez and Robert Fleming with 16-Blue, Ashley Combs and Tony Johnson with 16-White, co-head coaches Nicole Rathman and Chris Balestrieri, Eric Ballelos, Jessica Dragotto, and Nicole Wickstrom with 14-Gold, Samisoni Latu and Tony Knudsen with 14-Blue, Stephanie Burbank and Tony Wood with 14-White, Chantel Ross and Ashley Dolezal with 13-Blue, Amy Hoffman and Ali Van Rixel with 12-Gold and Karen Varley and Stephanie Ward with 12-Blue.
Formerly known as the Belmont Volleyball Club, the club name was changed to better reflect and represent its surrounding area. Junior and senior high school volleyball players from San Francisco and its peninsula that qualify to play at PJVBC are welcome.
Club Volleyball Review For Attack Volleyball Club
Part of the Great Lakes Volleyball Region, the Attack Volleyball club provides youth and junior volleyball training opportunities for players of differing skill levels. Both boys and girls are afforded the option of participating in state, regional and national volleyball tournaments.
Attack Volleyball club is headed up by Pam Campbell who has teams competing in many age brackets including:
12 Girls Team
13 Girls Team
14 Girls Team
15 Girls Team
16 Girls Team
17 Girls Team
14 Boys Team
15 Boys Team
16 Boys Team
17 Boys Team
Individual teams can upload their club volleyball pages to the web site and keep them updated as well. It is apparent that the club focuses on college prep volleyball and constant parent communication with the help of parent meetings.
Parents may also appreciate the fact that players of the Attack Volleyball Club teams are also schooled in personal responsibility. While other teams have parents or specifically designated helpers to clean up the gyms after the teams are done playing, the director instills a sense of personal responsibility in each player by ensuring that they put away – in an orderly fashion — whatever equipment they had to move in or around the volleyball court.
A new program Attack offers to the community is called Volleykids, where kindergarten to sixth-grade children, with little or no experience can participate in a six-week long volleyball program for two hours a week which is split between practice and competition.
Kids play on a smaller volleyball court, lower net and use a softer volleyball.
Volleykids volleyball practice centers around teaching the proper volleyball technique for various skills, introducing the development of three contacts to a side and incorporating fun volleyball drills. The goal is to “introduce the sport of volleyball to younger children while building a solid base of fundamentals by teaching proper techniques of the game of volleyball.”
A full line of Attack Club Volleyball sportwear ranging from long sleeve t-shirts, shorts, hats, sweat pants, funky tye-dyed tee shirts, and fleece jackets can be ordered from the club’s website and may be proudly worn to identify the players (and their fans) when they arrive at volleyball tournaments or practices.
In partnership with the village of Orlando Park, Attack VBC is now offering their own Beach Volleyball Camps, along with Club classes, Volleyball Camps and Volleykids sessions.
Attack VBC staff is committed to giving their best effort to “ensure all athletes have the greatest experience and leave knowing it was worth the time and expense.”
Brazil playing in world champs 06
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Club Volleyball Review For The Capital City Volleyball Club
Capital City Volleyball Club has been one of the most progressive junior volleyball clubs in Nevada.
CCVB’s primary focus has been to offer camps and clinics to volleyball players age 8 to 18. In its tenth season the 2010 summer volleyball clinic schedule is quite extensive. Players can choose to attend a College Coach Camp (July 30 – August 2), while setters are offered opportunities to attend the Capital City Volleyball Setter’s Clinic (July 27 & 28) and players can choose to participate in one of the Skills Clinic Series (July 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd) or the “Get Ready For High School” clinic.
CCVB describes the 2010 College Coach’s Camp as a chance for players to experience volleyball practices being run by Division I coaches. A “one-of-a-kind” opportunity where players can hear directly from the source–what a coach looks for in potential college volleyball players. The plan is for the guest coaches to make themselves available to answer recruiting questions. Also scheduled to be on hand is Capital City’s college recruiting coordinator. College volleyball coaches to appear include Oleksandr Gutor, Carrie Couturier-Yerty, Brian Lampa and former Australian National Team coach, Mark Barnard.
Clearly a college prep volleyball club, Capital City focuses a lot of attention on educating its players on the ins and outs of getting recruited for a college volleyball scholarship and has hired a full-time college recruiting coordinator to work with volleyball parents and players. Setting itself apart from many other club volleyball web sites, CCVB has college scholarship requirements, recruiting tips, guides and articles prominently displayed on their home page. With information garnered from the direct feedback received from college volleyball coaches, CCVB provides links that take visitors to “Questions To Ask A College Recruiter”, “Tips on College Recruitment”, the “NCAA Eligibility Resource Center” and the “2009-2010 NCAA Guide for the College Bound Athlete.”
At this club, with so much information and emphasis placed on college recruitment, its no wonder that in 2009 Capital City had 20 players sign college commitments.
Capital City Volleyball Club provides a virtual library of educational material in the form of volleyball training tips (mine included) and articles authored by NCAA Division I coaches, former and current CCVB staff and notable author and USA Volleyball guru John Kessel. Written to address questions and concerns for parents, players, coaches, and fans, article titles run the gamut from “Communication: The Foundation of a Positive Recruiting Experience (by Mike Bryant, Asst Coach, University of Idaho) to one of my personal favorites John Kessel’s ‘Handy Guide To Ruining Volleyball Players’”.
Volleyball Teams and Players
For 2010, Capital City has 19 teams–two 18s, two 17s, five 16s, two 15s, six 14s and one 12s. CCVC alumni include Hofstra senior outside hitter Monica Knight, Ivy League Player of the Week Cornell sophomore setter Jordan Reeder, DII Conference Carolina Player of the Week Megan Mitchell and freshman Corey Phillips a Rochester Area College Athletics Athlete of the Week in 2009.
amazing hits
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Related Volleyball Articles