The 2018 Alberta Summer Games were held in Grande Prairie July 20-22, with Beach Volleyball being played at the newly renovated South Bear Creek Park courts. On the boys side the Zone 3 team of Cole Florence/Adam McDougall won a close final over the Zone 6 team of Henry Gardiner/Ethan Woollett.  Carson Brennan/Eli Purdon of […]

Volleyball Alberta is a proud partner and host to the International Sport Exchange with Alberta’s sister Province of Gangwon, South Korea.  Alberta Sport Connection, the Alberta Government and Volleyball Alberta are excited to welcome these athletes, coaches and leaders July 4-13, 2018.  The Gangwon representatives will have the opportunity to participate in several local activities that will […]

Planning for 2019?  Here is a copy of our first draft: 2019 Volleyball Alberta Indoor Tournament Schedule. — This schedule is subject to change. We will provide a second draft after our 2018-2019 season planning meetings in August (version of the schedule with location/cities to come in September).  Tournament Registration Fee for 2019 will remain at […]

Volleyball Alberta Announces 2018 Hall of Fame Inductees  Volleyball Alberta’s Hall of Fame was officially opened with the first inductions on June 12th, 2004 at the 2004 Awards Banquet in Edmonton.   The Hall of Fame awards are presented annually to recognize outstanding achievements in Volleyball Alberta. The awards are presented in the following 5 categories: […]

National Women’s Team Support – Looking for your support!  The President and Past Presidents of Volleyball Canada are hoping to enlist your support for the National Women’s VolleyballTeam.  This is a very crucial time for the women’s program.  As you may know, the National Women’s Team Centre is now located at Richmond, B. C. – […]

The Arctic Winter Games is the world’s largest northern multi-sport and cultural event, and will have over 1,900 athletes, 250 officials, 100 cultural performers, and 2,000 volunteers. The Games include the participation of teams from Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta North, Nunavut, Greenland, Yamal, Nunavik-Quebec, and Sapmi. The 2018 Games are being held in South Slave region of […]

Join us June 23-24 at the Langley Event Center for 2 days of the best volleyball training available. This NCCP approved professional development opportunity will provide the attendee with 3 required NCCP points, and an opportunity to meet with and learn from the very best in the game. Skills, Drills, Team Culture, Parent Issues and […]

Join our team! For the 2018 Volleyball Canada National Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, May 17th – 22nd, 2018 We are looking for friendly, energetic and hardworking people to join our Event Crew to make it our best Nationals event to date! Our Event Crew will play a crucial role in the execution of what will be […]

NEW Logo NEW Name! We are very excited to launch the NEW Logo & NEW name PLAY SPORTS ALBERTA for our multi-sport summer camps in Partnership with Basketball Alberta and the Alberta Soccer Association.  For the past two summers we have ran these camps in Edmonton at the Saville Community Sports Centre.  This year we will be branching out to Calgary by offering […]

We are excited to launch our 2018 Provincial Shirts!  Team orders only. We will not accept individual orders. Volleyball Alberta will email the order form link directly to Team Managers [team main contacts]. Please check with them to place your order. If you are a Team Manager [team main contact] and did not receive the […]

Volleyball Alberta is hosting the 2018 Coaching Symposium at Mount Royal University January 12-14. Featuring: * Presenters: Lee Carter-Brandon University Bobcats, Laurie Eisler-UofA Pandas, Julie Young & Sandra Lamb-Mount Royal Cougars, Terry Danyluk-UofA Bears, Shawn Sky-Mount Royal Cougars, Jon Goldie-Volleyball Alberta, Art O’Dwyer-SAIT Trojans, Paul Armbruster-Ambrose Lions, Carlyn Stilling-Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Leigh Goldie-Volleyball Alberta * Tickets for U-Sports volleyball action: Mount Royal University […]

All Premier and Provincial Tournament registration forms are now linked, publised and ready for Team Contacts to register their teams.  CLICK HERE TO REGISTER All Volleyball Alberta registration forms are published on our VRS-Goalline site.  Announcing the 2018 Early Bird Registration Draw Winners: Congratulations to our winners! Thank you to all the teams that registered online for all Premier […]

October 1, 2017Volleyball Alberta | Hall of Fame Call for Nominations The Volleyball Alberta Nominations and Awards Committee is currently gathering nominations to recognize outstanding achievements in Volleyball Alberta. Hall of Fame awards are presented in the following 5 categories: Builder,   Coach,   Athlete,   Team   and   Official. Please take a moment to think about who should […]

The 2017 beach season wrapped up on August 20 in Ottawa with Youth Beach Nationals, as well as Senior Beach Nationals in North Bay.  The Team Alberta Beach provincial team program sent a total of 14 teams to youth nationals, as well as having several other Alberta teams attend as well.  This capped off another summer that saw record […]

Team Alberta Beach have arrived in Winnipeg for the start of the 2017 Canada Summer Games.  Alberta will be represented by one male and one female team during week 1 of the games.  The athletes and coaches will have have several practice days as well as attend the opening ceremonies before the competition starts on […]

Volleyball Alberta would like to congratulate Team Alberta on their recent accomplishments at the National Team Challenge Cup (NTCC) and High Performance Championships.  All the teams trained hard to prepare for these competitions. The 16U Boys competed at the NTCC’s in Gatineau alongside the best teams from across Canada. They finished with a 3-1 record in pool […]

The 17U & 18U Team Alberta programs are competing at the USA High Performance Championships in Fort Lauderale July 18-22. The tournament schedule may be found at:  https://www.advancedeventsystems.com/EventResults/(S(wbkspamocltnlyeytbknoy55))/Home.aspx?e=PTAwMDAwMTMwODg90 The tournament website is below.  Courts #1 – 4 will be live streamed.  http://www.teamusa.org/usa-volleyball/high-performance/hp-indoor/programs-and-events/hp-championships Good luck to all of our teams! 17U Women’s Team Alberta Roster Uniform […]

Volleyball Alberta would like to thank all the 16U provincial team athletes who worked so hard for the past ten days at the Team Alberta Training Centre in Edmonton.  These athletes were dedicated to improving their volleyball skills and learning more about high performance training, their commitment and hard work was very impressive! Girls: Delaney Patrick, Edyn Aasman, […]

The Team Alberta 16U athletes checked into the Saville Community Sports Centre on July 5th, and have been busy training ever since. These athletes have been exposed to intense on court skill development, physical training, mental skills development, and nutrition. The Training Centre will wrap up for the 16U girls and 16U boys with the Team Alberta Cup Tournament July 14 & 15. Spectators are […]

Voices of Alberta Volleyball podcast Learn from 15 local volleyball pioneers how the sport was learned, coached and rooted for in the province, on the new Voices of Alberta Volleyball podcast.  The 10-episode series will launch on June 24, 2017 at the Volleyball Hall of Fame Banquet in Edmonton. Each Friday, for the whole summer, a […]

The 2017 Team Alberta Beach Provincial Teams were selected over the first two weekends in June.  Athletes in the 16U and 18U age classes were selected as well as the teams who will represent Alberta at the Canada Summer Games. The Canada Games selection was held in Toronto.  The athletes participated in training with Team […]

We are very happy to annouce that 10 of our Alberta athletes of have been selected for the 2017 Volleyball Canada Women & Select Men Rosters. The purpose of the Youth (w) & Select (m) program is to identify, select and train a group of athletes who have future senior national team potential. The programs […]

2017 Volleyball Canada Nationals -Alberta Results An exciting month of May has wrapped up!  We had quite a number of Alberta teams competing in Volleyball Canada Nationals for the various age categories.  This year’s Nationals has been the largest till date with a total of 929 teams (680 Girls & 249 Boys).  This leads into […]