Clubs can be one team or many teams. The number of teams you organize is up to you! There is nothing better than affiliating yourself with an organization that offers Power League, Area League and Non League, Junior Olympic and special events for your teams. Many of these are events are run in state of the art convention centers with online (and live!) score reporting, live online video of championship matches and more! Here are a few of the perks of being an NCVA affiliated club:
Several league options to choose from: Power League, Area League and Non League.
Additional Tournaments offered every month that range from two days to four days of play. All held in convention centers.
Power League gives you the opportunity to earn a regional bid to the USA Volleyball Junior Olympic Championships.
Far Westerns, a Junior Olympic National Qualifier, right in your backyard!
Facilities insurance
Insurance for all registered members - players, coaches, club staff and anyone else that chooses to become a member
DNO insurance
Office Staff available Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm
On-Call office staff available to tournament directors for all tournaments.
Coaches' continuing education opportunities
Power League
Power League tournaments will be offered in the following age groups: 18/17, 16/15, 14/13, and 12.
Play will begin at 8:30 AM for all Power League tournaments.
Points will be awarded to all teams participating in the Power League.
The deadline to enter the Power League is 5:00 PM, December 4, 2009.
In order to accurately seed teams for the beginning of the season, the Power League begins with a 2-day League Qualifier.
Following the Qualifier, there will be three (3) League tournaments followed by a two (2) day Regional Championship.
All tournaments of the Power League are mandatory, which means that teams entering the Power League will play 7 mandatory days.After entering the Power League, teams will be automatically entered into all League dates, including the two (2) day Qualifier and the two (2) day Regional Championship.
All teams must be prepared to travel to their assigned sites
The two day Qualifier and two day Region Championships will be in Convention Centers
The Region Championship format consists of a Championship Section and a Challenger Section.
Each match is the best two-out-of-three sets to 25 points in the first two sets and to 15 points in the third set, if necessary.
All sets will use rally scoring with no cap.
All teams will be divided into pools for partial round-robin play.
After pool play, all teams will advance to a playoff bracket.
The 12 and under Power League will use the lite ball and players are not allowed to step into the court when serving
Each division will have 12 teams playing on three (sometimes four) courts. However, The last few divisions of an age group will have a random number of teams.
The NCVA reserves the right to change the number of teams in a division to better accommodate the number of teams entered in any age group, and to allow the use of more two-court facilities.
Each division will begin with Gold, Silver Bronze divisions followed by the corresponding alphabet by color (Aqua, Blue, Copper, Dusk, etc.) with the higher levels corresponding to the beginning of the alphabet.
The top three finishing teams in each League tournament (Leagues #1, #2, and #3) will move up one division and the three lowest finishing teams will move down one divisionFor example, a Bronze division team that finishes tenth, eleventh, or twelfth in a League tournament will move to the Aqua division for its next tournament. Likewise, a team finishing first, second, or third in the Aqua division will move to the Bronze division up to and including League #3.
The following is the list of divisions, in their proper order, for the NCVA Power League:
