How Do You Join A Junior Olympic Volleyball Team?
Play volleyball off season by joining a USA Junior Olympic Volleyball team. Perfect your skills and compete in state and National level boys and girls volleyball. Investigate club volleyball in your area to play the sport at its highest level in the United States. Find the Regional Volleyball Association active in your part of the country. Visit the USA Volleyball website and click on the “Juniors” link. Find the “Wanna Play?” link and follow it to find the Regional Volleyball Association serving your area. Contact the regional commissioner of the Regional Volleyball Association closest to your home. Ask for information concerning USA Volleyball and for a list of USA Junior Volleyball teams in your region. Ask about starting your own volleyball club if an existing club does not exist. Call several of the USA Junior Volleyball clubs in your area. Ask for information about their tryouts. Athletes compete for positions on USA Volleyball teams. Ask about fees, uniforms and travel requireme
• Find a team to try out for (generally called a club because they include many teams of many different ages). Try out for at least 2 clubs, more if you are very serious about playing. Hundreds of girls try out per year (per club even) so the stakes are high. Find out their tryout information and sign up in advance if you can. There is always a tryout fee (usually from $5 to $20; rarely but sometimes as high as $40) and you will usually get a better deal if you sign up before. Beware: Many clubs in the same region (see tips) hold tryouts on the same day at conflicting times, forcing players to choose the club they want more. Make sure you know this. • Go there and give it your all. Tryouts are long and tiring, but you must show stamina. The tournaments you will be playing in will be all day, usually with a minimum of 4 matches. If you can’t last in a 4-hour tryout, they won’t consider you. Every club is different; the only thing you can be sure of is that you will be given a random num
