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» Junior Beach Volleyball Information - including rules of the game

  Starting in 1994 with a single event in California featuring 16 teams, junior beach volleyball has grown to become a national sport with tournaments attracting hundreds of teams. With the allure of playing volleyball in a fun-and-sun outdoor environment, the question 'How can an indoor player benefit from beach volleyball?' is often asked. Often times the best indoor players come from beach volleyball backgrounds, including Karch Kiraly and Misty May. Proven benefits of playing beach volleyball include:

• »Quick all-around skill development
• »Improved movement, jumping, and conditioning from running in the sand
• »Improved reaction time from covering more court

   Additionally, college coaches increasingly look to beach volleyball as an important way to train players with the sport becoming an NCAA women's varsity level sport beginning in 2010. John Cook, head coach of the University of Nebraska, states that "We feel there are many advantages to training in the sand and we have gone as far as building an indoor sand court at Nebraska. Not only can they play on the sand, but we can train them there as well."

   With that said, 2006 marked the first year of a new program by vh1vball where we introduced the sport of beach volleyball to juniors around North Carolina. One (1) clinic and three (3) tournaments were offered that year. In 2007 the very first junior beach volleyball club in North Carolina was started for Triangle area juniors. Interested juniors got the opportunity from late March-early July to participate in weekly practice/pick-up play sessions. Additionally, participation levels have increased across the board with over 120 teams taking part in the four (4) tournaments we offered this past year (2008). It's time to give beach volleyball a try!

Please note that juniors are not limited to playing in the juniors-only events. Juniors are welcome and even encouraged to play in our grass King/Queen and Reverse Co-ed tournaments as well as our standard sand doubles tournaments.