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There are a number of opportunities for volleyball over the summer. Check out the links on our resources page for more information.
Volleyball Centre for Excellence to begin on the North Shore - Tryouts on May 29, 2012
Great news! Work has been underway to establish a volleyball training facility in North Vancouver run in partnership by Volleyball Canada and the North Vancouver School District. It’s called the Volleyball Canada Centre of Excellence (VCCE) and a soft start-up of the program is planned for September 2012.
It will be offered to grade 8 – 12 students, girls and boys, and would run in two streams: high performance stream (24 athletes) and competitive stream (30 athletes).
Athletes for the high performance stream will be selected though a tryout process and all others are eligible for the competitive stream. If the competitive stream is over subscribed, than a lottery system will be used to select athletes.
Tryouts have now been scheduled for May 29, 2012 at Harry Jerome Sports Center in Burnaby from 5 pm to 8:30 pm.
The high performance stream will be open to out-of-district students while the competitive stream will be restricted to NVSD students only.
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We received a great thank you letter from the Harvest Project in response to our huge donation of food.
Read the thank you letter. Way to go Stars!
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Congratulations, Stars! In December 2011 we dropped off 41 bags of groceries collected during tryouts to the Harvest Project, and we donated $650 to Kidsport BC as a result of our 2011 fundraising efforts.
DID YOU KNOW...?
- Volleyball is the second highest participation sport in the world, trailing only soccer
- New research suggests that increased access to sports for girls will make them more competitive and successful in the workplace
- Over 1,046,000,000 people play volleyball throughout the world
- Women comprise nearly one half of the sport's participants
- Volleyball is among the top three women's spectator sports in the US
- Volleyball players are young and active; over 75% are between 15-34 years of age
- Over 80% of volleyball athletes have post-secondary education
- FIVB (Fédération internationale de volleyball) is the largest international sports federation
