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 […]

Volleyball Alberta is currently reviewing the season of play, tryout period and signing dates.  Several options are being examined by the Athlete Development Committee, and a recommendation will be presented to the Volleyball Alberta Board of Directors to be voted on at the June 25 AGM.  The new policies will be communicated to the membership […]

The Mikasa Achievement Awards are presented to athletes, coaches, officials and volunteers who have made an outstanding contribution to volleyball in Alberta for the indoor club season.  Award nominations are based on the following criteria:

Posted: March 29, 2017 Planning for 2018? Here’s a copy of our first draft: 2018 Volleyball Alberta Indoor Tournament Schedule – this schedule is subject to change. We will provide a second draft after our 2017-2018 season planning meetings in September. 2018 Volleyball Alberta Indoor Tournament Schedule February 3-4   no tournaments – starting one weekend later to lineup better […]

The University of Alberta Golden Bears are hosting the 2017 FOG U Sports Men’s Volleyball Championship March 17-19 at the Saville Community Sports Centre. Come check out the amazing action, for ticket information visit the Championship website. Kids in the Crowd Special (subject to availability) –          Groups of 12 kids and 2 adults will receive 25% off the […]

This past weekend we held our 2017 Volleyball Alberta Coaching Symposium at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton. It was a weekend filled with knowledge exchange, networking and engaging in relevant topics in coaching.   We kick started the symposium on Friday night at MacEwan University with Linda Rizzoli & Leanne French who involved […]

Injuries remove athletes from their training program or competition schedule and may contribute to an early exit from sport.  In order to prevent and manage injury in sport activities, we need to better understand where, to whom, why and how injuries occur. To that end, Volleyball Alberta is participating in a small project to evaluate […]

2017 Indoor Tournament Schedule – Download PDF    UPDATE: December 16, 20162017-V1 Indoor Tournament VENUE Schedule – Download PDF UPDATE: DECEMBER 8, 2016 (Tournament Registration How To and Form Links)  All of our tournament registration forms are posted here: VRS-Goalline > Indoor > Youth Competitions:   http://site2704.goalline.ca/event-search.php?cat=2 Each form has coach and player membership requirements and if […]

Summer wrapped up on the youth beach volleyball season on August 21 with the final day of youth nationals coming to a close.  The Alberta Beach provincial team athletes arrived in Toronto on August 14 and spent several days training with the Ontario provincial teams prior to participating in Youth Beach Nationals.  All 12 teams who participated showed great improvements throughout […]

During the Volleyball Summit hosted by Volleyball Alberta in June, the Season of Play & Signing Date were discussed in depth. Volleyball Alberta has adopted an official Signing Policy using an offer & commitment process for the 2016-17 season. The following reasons outline the decision to adopt the new policy: Volleyball Alberta has outlined important […]

Canada’s men’s volleyball team are at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. It’s been a long 24 year drought, so come out and celebrate with Edmonton’s Volleyball Community. In their first match, Canada beat 5th world ranked USA in straight sets.  Next up for Canada is NORCECA rival Mexico, come watch it FREE on a Big Theatre Screen at […]

The Canadian Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team will be playing five matches against the Netherlands as part of their final preparations for the Rio Paralympics. https://www.facebook.com/events/276173662740162/ Admission is FREE and all games are at the Saville Community Sports Centre on Court 7A. The times are as follows:Friday August 5: 10am & 6pmSaturday August 6: 10am & 6pmSunday August 7: 9am Come […]

The 2016 Alberta Summer Games were held in Leduc over the July 15-17 weekend.  On the men’s side Zone 8 came away with the gold medal while on the women’s side it was Zone 4 who won the final.  Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make the weekend such a great success! Final Standings  […]