Volley South Junior Volleyball Information:

Volley South would like to welcome you all back for our Junior Volleyball season. Information for the Junior Programme will be located here or on our Facebook page as and when information is available to us, and in e-newsletters.

There has been a change to advertised tournaments and structure for the Volley South representative season.

  • Please see the names below for each age group and squad training.
  • You must trial and be selected in April/May 2022 to be a part of this program
  • Program- June 2022- June 2023, this is a 12-month development representative program as laid out below with dates and commitment.
  • We have a build-up of two tournaments, and possibly some interchanges regionally, and local competitions, then the pinnacle is 2023, and these rep players carry through.
  • We name squads, then move into A & B teams. A’s go to IPC and International academy tournaments, everyone attends the lower South Island tournament
  • Talent ID for NZ and South Island teams


3 tournaments for the age group representative season

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Tournament 1

Lower South Island Festival

 17-18 September 2022 - Lower South Island tournament against Otago/ Aoraki v South is now a two-day tournament to be held in Invercargill.

Train June-Sept

  1. No cost for entry to all players, as Volley South has funding for the courts
  2. Training costs – are only for courts for training purposes that charge us:
    1. IE Wanaka u15 free
    2. . Invercargill stadium or Queenstown event centre 1.5-hour court is $55.50 per hour / court/ team x 10 weeks of training = $55.50 per player for courts plus a $14.50 fee for usage of equipment/ uniforms. $70.00
  3. Representative association fee is $50.00
  4. If required
    1. hoodie (same as 2021) $41.50
    2. tee shirt (same as 2021) $18.50
  5. Coaches and parent help are volunteers- no charge
  6. Wanaka u15 team & Queenstown – travel to Invercargill and accommodation and food will be worked out with the teams​​​​​​​

Tournament 3

What we are building for - Volleyball NZ, IPC, Queens birthday weekend 3-7 June 2023, Wellington

The best of the best in each grade, only one team per grade per gender.

Train March-June

  1. Training costs – are only for courts for training purposes that charge us:
    1. . Invercargill stadium or Queenstown event centre 1.5-hour court is $55.50 per hour / court/ team x 10 weeks of training = $55.50 per player for courts plus a $14.50 fee for usage of equipment/ uniforms. $70.00
  2. Representative association fee $50.00
  3. If required
    1. hoodie (same as 2021) $41.50
    2. tee shirt (same as 2021) $18.50
  4. Coaches and parent help are volunteers- no charge
  5. Flights to Wellington To be confirmed
  6. Accommodation, food, transport to be confirmed
  7. Funding and fundraisers will be done

TRAINING SCHEDULE


Representative Season

Rep training Invoices will be out after the weekend:

No cost for tournament entry to all players, as Volley South has funding for the courts and volunteer staff to run the tournament


Invercargill Sundays

- Sundays @ ILT Stadium Southland

12-2 pm Angels, Saphires, Comets, Flyers, Blockers, Emeralds,

2-5 pm Spikers, Men A & B, Invercargill-based Women, Stars

31st July ILT Stadium

7, August ILT Stadium 

14 August - 40 Forth st, beach hub 12-2pm, 2-5pm SGHS gym 

21, August ILT stadium -coaches away Rachel, Asta, Jo  and Cameron

28 August,

4, September

11 September

Tournament - 17-18 September tournament in Invercargill 2 days


Invercargill Wednesday training and games start 27 July 

  • 4-6 pm training Spikers, Stars, Angels, Saphires, Comets, Flyers, Blockers, Emeralds- start 27 July
  • ​​​​​​​THEN ALL TEAMS HAVE  game see draws here 


Wanaka

  • Mt Aspiring school u15 girls - lunchtime - Olivia Jones
  • Team to be named - training starts July


Southern Lakes and Central Otago

Wednesdays -Free hit court Wednesdays 5-6 pm -ask Alexa for the ball, no coach

We won't enter you into the Wednesday competition as Wakatipu school has entered two teams that have most of you in those teams.

We will get the coach to set up a Facebook group chat for all four teams


Sundays

Training will only be Sundays 4-6 pm @Queenstown Event Centre -Please inform us if you can not come to training.

HItters, Gems, Diamonds, Lakers, Open women /men

26 June

3 July

No school holidays

31st July

7, August

14 August

21, August

28 August,

4, September

11 September


Tournament information here

Juniors http://www.volleysouth.org.nz/representative/Junior

Seniors http://www.volleysouth.org.nz/representative/Senior