UKCC 1  4/5^th May and 1^st June – £180

Grade 4 refereeing 27^th / 28^th April – £35

Both courses are running in Cardiff Metropolitan University on the dates above.  For more information, please contact Yvonne Saker on ysaker@cardiffmet.ac.uk – 029 2041 6537

Thanks Yvonne

At last years SW Championships we held a Sitting Volleyball demonstration match between Plymouth Marjon, the Royal Navy and anyone else who was in the hall at the time.  If we can find a couple of teams, we would like to take this a stage further and hold a SW Sitting Championships.

If you and your club are interested in taking part, then please contact me and we will schedule in some court time at this years championship weekend. 

Dave Reece Dave.Reece@Network100.co.uk

Julia Lane has agreed to take over the co-ordination of the SWJBT tour dates this year along with Ali West who will help with back ground organisation/web stuff as usual.

VE National Tour dates are currently being finalised, SWJBT date will be announced shortly, in the mean time please contact Julia and keep an eye on the SWJBT web site.

jelane@madasafish.com

We require a couple of volunteers to help with the general event on both the Saturday and Sunday. Some expenses can be claimed, please contact Dave Reece if you would like to get involved.

Dave.Reece@Network100.co.uk

Although many league programs around the country have a “Player of the Match” award, we do not have one in the SWVA League. It has been suggested that we add a Ladies and Men’s “Player of the Match” award to the 2013/14 SW league program.

It is anticipated that it will be similar to the National league “Player of the Match” award, where each team will nominate a member of the opposing team and record this on the scoresheet. Let us know what you think, only two clubs have voted so far, details at: Player_of_the_Match_poll

 

15th June 2013 Beach Pairs: Entry Form
16th June 2013 Beach 4′s: Application Form

Entries are now open for Newbury Volleyfest a brand new summer tournament to
be held Saturday 15th June at Newbury Rugby Club. Please support us in our
new venture. We have secured an excellent venue and hopefully booked a sunny
day !

Sue

Newbury Volleyball Club
http://www.newburyvolleyballclub.co.uk

 

Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th August

This website has been produced to provide you with all the information you require to make our tournament fun, and your time with us – enjoyable & relaxing.

Registered through Volleyball England ( click here ), the Salisbury Volleyball Tournament is becoming very popular. We believe we are the only outdoor tournament to offer a 2 vs 2 competition on the same weekend as the main 6′s competition – outdoor music whilst you are playing and also the only people to gather all players together (after briefing) for a special warm up by staff from the local gym!

Web site: Salisbury Tournament

Volleyball Wales are looking for a new Coaches and Assistant Coaches for Welsh Junior Squads.

VW  are looking for experienced coaches to Coach the Junior Boys and Girls teams at the School Games in Sheffield in Sept 2013.  For further details please see the http://www.volleyballwales.org/

Entries for the 2013 Beach Student Cup are now open.

The Volleyball England Beach Student Cup is one of the biggest student beach competitions of the year. Students from universities from all over the country will converge on Bournemouth beach for 3 days of intense beach volleyball competition with the opportunity to play doubles and mixed fours over the course of the weekend.

Sanjib Sahota, National Competition & Events Manager said “The Student Cup is a great outlet for students of any ability to play beach volleyball. We are looking forward to welcoming students from all over the country for a great weekend of volleyball.”

For further details on how to enter the Beach Student Cup, please click here

We are looking to run a Level Two Coaching course at the beginning of the 2013/14 indoor season. With the change to the new UKCC qualification, there has ot been a level two course for a while, tutors are currently going through the new process and exam structure, this should be completed by mid summer and hence we are looking to be one of the first regions to host a UKCC Level 2 course.

If you are not aware, the Level 2 is the minimal qualification required to run a coaching session and courses do not come around that often.

The course will be held over two weekends, our provisional dates are Sept 21/22 & Oct 19/20.

The course fees will be £420 or £450. Funding is available for coach development, a ‘Funding Opportunities Guide for Coaches’ has been developed by ScUK and is available on the SWVA & VE web sites. Local associations and clubs also give development grants to their coaches and hence it is not uncommon for participants to recover 50% to 60% of this fee either direct or in future paid work (you have plenty of time to apply).

UKCC Level two courses can also be run by third party companies e.g. University partnerships with an appropriate course fee mark up. These groups are currently unable to run courses until qualified tutors become available later this year. As well as being the cheapest, this may well be the only place you can do a Level 2 course in 2013.

 

What do I do Next…………

If interested, YOU MUST REGISTER YOUR INTEREST on the Volleyball England web site, page:

http://www.volleyballengland.org/getintovolleyball/coaching/courses/course_enquiry

Please note that one of the question is with reference to “How far will you travel (miles)”. We need a minimum of 12 people before we can run the course, not an issue if we have a good number of people register from the SW & S. Wales area. If not then we may have to locate the course towards the North or North East of our region, in order to attract coaches from neighboring regions.