The USAV event, also known as Junior Olympics or JOs spreads the age divisions over a two week period to increase the economic impact of the event to the city of Miami and increase the profits to the USAV Volleyball national office. The JVDA event is held over a 5-day period with all ages playing in the same location overlapping by only one day.

JOs in Miami
WVBA Mizuno 16 will be the first Academy team to depart for Miami. They left Wednesday and will begin their four days of competition on Friday and finish on Tuesday, June 29th.

WVBA 16-Black will start out as the #6 overall seed in the Club National Division. This division has 48 teams divided into eight 6-team pools. The Academy 16s team will face Ime Iki 16s of Honolulu, HI in their first match at 3:00pm on Friday. They will play the Lincoln Lazers of Nebraska at 7:00pm Friday. On Saturday they will play three matches starting with Top Select 16s of Florida at 3:00pm, Cajunland 16s of New Orleans at 5:00pm, and Nike 6-Pack of Iowa at 7:00pm.

WVBA Mizuno 17 will start their competition on Sunday and finish on Wednesday. WVBA 17s are playing in the Open Division, the highest division of the tournament. This division consists of 28 teams divided into four 7-team pools and will play a best of 5 set match format.

The Academy 17s will face High Country 17s of Utah in their first match at 8:00am Sunday. They will play Vision 17 Gold of northern California at 4:00pm. On Monday morning they will play Tampa Bay 17 of Florida at 8:00am and then see Coast 17-1 of San Diego at 4:00pm. On Tuesday they will start with Mizuno Long Beach at 8:00am and finish their pool play against TAV 17 Asics of Dallas at noon.

WVBA Mizuno 18 will be the last Academy team playing this season with their first day of play on July 1st and finishing on July 4th. They will be playing in the Club National Division with 48 teams divided into eight 6-team pools. The Academy 18s are the #1 seed in Pool 7.

WVBA 17s will start their journey against the El Paso Sunspots of Texas at 4:00pm next Wednesday and then play Ozark Juniors of Arkansas at 8:00pm. Thursday they will play Virginia Elite at 9:00am, San Gabriel Elite of So Cal at 11:00am and then finish pool play against the Asics Rainbows of Honolulu at 1:00pm.

You can follow the progress of all our teams at JOs and the JVDA Championships through the AES Website. For the JOs tournament, click here. For the JVDA Championship, click here.

Youth Volleyball Camp
WVBA will be conducting a youth volleyball camp on July 6th-9th for the City of Woodinville for players entering 7th-9th grades. more information...

If you have any questions, please contact our Club Administrator by email at tracy@wvba.org.

What is the JVDA?
The Junior Volleyball Directors Association was born out of a demand for an organization devoted solely to representing the interests of junior volleyball clubs and their members.

With the costs of junior club participation skyrocketing over the past few years, the founding clubs of the JVDA felt strongly that the leadership of USAV needed to reconsider their announced plans to further increase costs. In late 2006 USAV announced their plans to add three new JO qualifiers that USAV will own directly in order to cash in on some of the profits they saw the existing nine qualifier owners raking in.

Their plan to increase the number of JO qualifiers to 12 while at the same time reducing the number of bids available at each qualifier was sure to continue the march toward the 'Walmartization' of junior volleyball with huge and expensive qualifier tournaments that will push the costs even further out of reach for most middle class families.

The three main goals of the JVDA are to (1) grow the game of volleyball while lowering the costs of participation for all junior volleyball families, (2) to improve the conditions and environment for juniors volleyball through persistent advocacy and lobbying efforts, and (3) to increase the professionalism of junior clubs through the sharing of best practices between organizations.

WVBA shares these goals and is a proud member of JVDA.

JVDA Championships
The JVDA Championship in Lousiville, KY features just under 500 teams from across the USA with most of the teams coming from the midwest, the strongest junior volleyball area in the country. WVBA will have four teams in attendance in three age groups, 16s, 15s and 14s.

WVBA Mizuno 16-Gold will be playing in the 16 Club Division and will start competition on Saturday as the #19 seed overall out of a field of 82 teams. Their first pool will start at 3:00pm as they face #3 seed PLVC 16 TST of St. Louis followed by Altitude 16 Black of Chicago at 5:00pm and Team Z 16 Gold of Cincinnati at 8:00pm.

WVBA Mizuno 15 is playing in the 15 Open Division consisting of 20 teams in five 4-team pools. WVBA 15s are the #4 seed in Pool 5 and will start competition on Saturday versus #2 seed Team Z 15 Orange of Cincinnati at 9:00am. They will play again at 10:00am against Club Fusion 15 Black from Chicago and finish pool play with Louisiana VBC 15 Danny at noon.

WVBA Mizuno 14 is playing in the 14 Open Division and will start play on Saturday morning at 9:00am as the #4 seed of Pool 6. Their first match will be against #2 seed SoCal Elite 14 of Southern California. Their next match is against #1 seed Sports Performance of Chicago at 10:00am and finally versus #3 seed Wisconsin Juniors at noon.

WVBA Mizuno 14-Gold is also playing in the 24-team 14 Open Division. They will start play at 9:00am on Saturday as the #4 seed of Pool 2 against #2 seed Lions 14-1 of Chicago. They play again right away against Milwaukee Sting 14-1 and finish pool play against Sports Express 14 Hine of Cincinnati.