Welcome to the April 2019 Edition of VolleyBiz!
The monthly newsletter designed to inform the junior volleyball community on the happenings and different facets related to the business of club volleyball.
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Toward the finish line of the season, it is recommended that club directors run some checks and balances to evaluate if your club is running on all cylinders, and identify the changes that can be made before next season. Change can be something small and simple to execute, and in other cases, change can lead to more change. Here are five signs your club is ready for a significant change, along with steps to execute a plan.
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Nominate Your Athletes for the 2019 Ultra Ankle® JVA AthLeader Award
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The 2019 Ultra Ankle® JVA AthLeader Award selects 20 girls indoor junior volleyball players who exemplify outstanding volleyball performance, academic excellence, leadership, responsibility, and selflessness.
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ecruiting Legislation Changes Anticipated for May 1, 2019
Here's What You and Your Athletes Need to Know
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from Beach Nation Founding Coach Mark Fishman
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Serving is a critical part of the game. By using certain techniques, a team can optimize the ability to use the serve to score points. Here are 4 beach serving strategies that will help you score more points from the service line.
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A volleyball coach is all too familiar with the dread that can affect a player in serve receive during a tight match. Coaches see it on the athlete’s face and the athlete certainly feels it. The face seems to be saying, “Please, don’t serve it to me. I can’t pass it.” Here are a few simple ways for coaches to instill confidence in their athletes so that the athlete approaches the perceived challenge at hand in a positive way.
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Crossfire Volleyball Wins JVA Club of the Month
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As part of Crossfire Youth Sports, Crossfire Volleyball has 31 volleyball teams and 32 AAU basketball teams during the 2019 season and employs about 90 coaches between the two sports. Founded in 2003, the organization employs five staff members to serve approximately 650 team members in addition to those who participate in camps and programs in the spring, summer and fall.
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A fast-growing beach volleyball tournament format is the “Club vs. Club” or “School vs. School” format, generally referred to as a duel tournament. This is the format that made it practical for the NCAA to adopt beach volleyball. The Club vs. Club format not only encourages a sense of team and club loyalty, it also offers matched competition and more match play experience at the junior level. Here is a breakdown of the formatting options to run your own Club. vs Club beach event.
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Elite Sports Ohio Volleyball Company
(Columbus, Ohio) shares a drill called Blackjack that is a 6v6 scrimmage that focuses on first ball sideout and transition scored to 21 points with a 3-2-1 scale for serve receive.
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Helpful Reading and Resources
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JVA World Challenge way more than than just a club volleyball tourney
From Volleyballmag.com
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There were 864 teams playing on 111 courts, which by itself was something special. And there were more than 25,000 people descending on the Kentucky city as a result. But it was so much more than just a volleyball tournament.
Read more.
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4 Ways to Find the Best Division for Your Talent Level
From Our Partner NCSA
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Finding the right division level early on will help you focus on the right schools in your recruiting process, so you don't waste your time pursuing colleges at division levels you aren't suited for.
Read more.
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Making a highlight video that will get college coaches to your court
From Our Partner, Art of Coaching Volleyball
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Good, short and organized highlight videos will catch the eye of college coaches IF they need your position in your grad year AND they see in the video that your athleticism, court movement and skill level could make their team better. Juniors coach Dianne DeNecochea offers valuable tips that will help coaches and their athletes
learn how to make a highlight video that will help get them noticed!
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Calculated Point of Attack vs. Blocking Systems
From Our Partner, AVCA
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Presented by Travis Fuller, The Academy Volleyball Director of Player and Coach Development. April 23, 3:00 PM EST
Coaching your team to see the block and hit around it can be difficult. In this webinar Travis Fuller will present knowledge of blocking systems that offenses will face including read blocking, front blocking and commit blocking. From there he'll discuss the offensive strategies that can defeat those blocking systems and provide coaches with the tools to implement these offensive strategies.
Register here.
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HONOR THE 150,000
From Our Partner, The Side-Out Foundation
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Join us in honoring the 150,000 women and men living with stage IV breast cancer by participating in the Dig Pink® Dig-A-Thon!
This initiative is easy to participate in, simple to set up, and will drive players to hustle on defense!
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From Our Partner, Ultra Ankle
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As an athletic trainer that works many volleyball tournaments a year, this is the most common question I hear by far. In my 30+ year experience, there are only two things I know of that can weaken your ankles – but are ankle braces one of them?
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From Our Partner, TeamSnap
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The youth sports experience starts off simple enough: Little League or soccer practice twice a week, followed by a Saturday morning game. But then things can sometimes get a little more complicated
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Read more.
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