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Welcome to 2022 term 1 School Volleyball! In this newsletter, you will find the following
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BRAND NEW! South Volley League (SVL) This is for representative players or people keen to become representative players or to get some additional coaching outside of their school coaching programs. This will be played on Sunday afternoons and early evenings click here for more information http://www.volleysouth.org.nz/events-1/svl-registration-and-info-to-date |
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BRAND NEW SOCIAL CHAMPS TO BE ADDED TO COMPETITIVE CHAMPS ANNUALLY! We have been asked by the students to have a social champ for beach 4 a side and social champs for indoor 6 aside. We agree, what a great idea! Social and competitive champs all our information in regards to the 2022 South Champs can be found here http://www.volleysouth.org.nz/SouthlandChampsIndoorBeach Seedings ruling After last year and the changes to senior champs due to covid and some miscommunication on our end, we have received communications from Wakatipu that needed addressing over the Christmas break. The business and community committee addressed this in Jan 2022, a policy and caveat were sorted, and schools were notified, here is the policy that goes with that notification. We understand that now that things have been cancelled post our decision-making process you are wanting us to review this policy again. Unfortunately, we have decided to not add to more confusion and we will be staying with this policy and caveat for 2022, and 2023. 2 Feb 2022 - seeding policy here http://www.volleysouth.org.nz/asset/downloadasset?id=e9fa5ed2-cb97-4e98-9414-e81415bd3580 |
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We encourage all players and coaches to register online and sit FIVB coaching courses https://www.fivb.com/en/development/education/coachescourses |
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Wednesday school volleyball We started Wednesday school volleyball this week and had 58 teams. Can we have sporty filled in with all your players' names and details by March 5th please, thank you. Please note most of the MOU for 2021 is still in play we just need to update dates, and covid rules which we hope to have completed before Wednesday next week. The full season draw, covid policy and entrance maps is here http://www.volleysouth.org.nz/Indoor-Info/Secondary-School-Year-713-1 |
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Monday school volleyball Monday School beach started this week and we had 28 teams line up to take the courts. Here is the full season draw and covid information http://www.volleysouth.org.nz/Beach-Info/Secondary-School-Beach-Competition |
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Referee courses At Volley South, we encourage all our players, and it will become standard for representative players to sit VNZ local and regional referee courses online here https://www.volleyballnz.org.nz/development/referees Referee Development Framework underway for Volleyball New Zealand. Following on from the successful launch of a coaching framework, Volleyball New Zealand is moving to work on a Referee framework. “Officiating in volleyball is a critical component of the game”, says VNZ Chief Executive, Toni-Maree Carnie. “Everyone needs to do it, particularly at secondary school levels. So the more capable and skilled our referees are, the better the experience for everyone”. Fabi Phaneuf, currently based in Brazil and a former American scholarship athlete is leading the project and drawing on New Zealand and international best practices to develop a framework suitable for all levels. Volleyball NZ is launching a working group of people interested in referee development and in contributing to the development of the framework. If you are interested in being a part of this group or have ideas for referee development, get in touch with Fabi at fabi@volleyballnz.org.nz |
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VNZ Dynasty Next Gen Regional Indoor Camps Registrations are now open for the Dynasty Next Gen Regional Indoor Camps. Check out the link below for more information and registration. https://www.volleyballnz.org.nz/development/next-gen/indoor Four Regional Indoor Camps in April 2022 school holidays.
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Mainlands Good luck to our two travelling school teams heading to a reformatted Mainlands being held in Christchurch Friday 4th - Sunday 6th March 2022. Updates will be on Canterbury Volleyballs' Facebook page and website. Draw and information here https://www.canterburyvolleyball.org/mainland-senior-champs
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Children and youth and vaccination requirements Kia ora, VNZ- We have had a few queries regarding the changes to rules this morning regarding children and youth and vaccination requirements. Please see the below information VNZ General Manger Steven Upfold has pulled together for you. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact Steven and he is happy to talk through with you. Kia ora koutou, We are aware the of this morning’s update from the Covid-19 Response and Education Minister Chris Hipkins regarding participation in school sport for unvaccinated students. News article from the update: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127886379/covid19-unvaccinated-children-can-take-part-in-sport-and-schoolbased-activities-under-phase-3 As a reminder, Volleyball NZ’s position regarding participation in sport has not changed for our events since the initial distribution of our VNZ Guidelines for events under the Covid-19 Protection Framework in late 2021. The guidelines and associated resources can be found here: https://www.volleyballnz.org.nz/covid-19-update Use and confirmation of My Vaccine Pass for participants is a requirement of the venues which would host our events. The decision was made on Wednesday to cancel the 2022 NZ Secondary Schools Volleyball Championships. Further details regarding this can be found here: https://www.volleyballnz.org.nz/news/nz-secondary-schools/nzss-championships-cancelled If anyone has any questions regarding this, or needs further guidance, please feel free to get in touch to discuss further. Nga mihi nui, Steven Upfold General Manager Volleyball New Zealand Sports House | Stadium Drive | Albany 0632 | PO Box 300-633 | Albany | Auckland 0752| Phone: +64 2102354466 Email: development@volleyballnz.org.nz | Website: https://www.volleyballnz.org.nz/ |
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