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Ages 19+ adult volleyball leagues
Our focus is on LISTENING to the needs of volleyball players and teams and fulfilling those needs to the best of our ability given the means we have to work with so that our teams feel heard, respected and have a sense of being included in the decisions, updates, and offerings this league makes. The focus is on the needs that would help most teams and players versus the needs of one or two teams/players.
The League offers convenience, flexibility, and a variety of skill levels that best fit the players’ skill sets that fit inside their busy lives. Loyalty is rewarded. Camaraderie is encouraged and supported, as is sportsmanship. All recreational skill levels are welcome to play with us, whether they are a group of friends or a corporate team.
The co-ed leagues offered focus on a competitive balance amongst our various levels of play for players and teams who may not be blessed with an elite level of talent or skills but who love this sport and want to play it with their friends and/or colleagues as often as their busy schedules will allow. There’s a balance in male/female ‘on-court’ ratios, making us a ‘true co-ed’ league. Players generally find that with ‘True Coed’ ratios that there’s not quite as much ‘edginess’ that you more often find with ‘4 men & 2 women’ leagues, and it gives women more of a chance to play more offense!
There are three distinct seasons. Fall, Winter & Spring.
We regularly monitor and evaluate the skill levels of our teams (based on game results) and will shift teams to more ‘competitively-appropriate’ divisions within the same night that they choose to play within the Fall & Winter seasons. The Spring league does see more of a mix of skill levels.
This FUN league is a simple indoor volleyball league that starts its Fall season between late September (or early October) to mid-December. The Winter season starts in early January and goes to early-April and Spring season starts in mid-April (immediately after the Winter season playoffs are completed) to almost the end of June. Locations of the games are at various Vancouver Public School gymnasiums (and the odd Rec Center gym) within the boundaries of the City of Vancouver and consist of a balance of gyms located west of Granville, east of Fraser and between Granville & Fraser.
Game times are often scheduled between 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and never finish later than 10:45 p.m. The majority of games start at 8 p.m. and finish at 9:45 p.m.
DIVISIONAL CHOICE
To start, all NEW volleyball teams are encouraged to play in our ‘Intermediate Plus’ or ‘Intermediate’ divisions. Returning teams are usually moved into the same division they finished last season in when carried forward (as long as there are enough teams to sustain that division).
LEVELS OF SKILL
Five levels of play range from the most competitive to the most social, where skills and technique are not overly important.
The league may decide to move teams up or down a division in the middle and at the end of each season to better balance the level of competition, but only within the same night of the week. The current skill levels offered are: Advanced, Intermediate Plus, Intermediate & Rec (short for Recreational).
Normally, we offer the following divisions (we prefer if new teams who are considering joining the most competitive division right away actually start in the ‘Intermediate Plus’ division for the start of the season…if your team does well in Intermediate Plus after the first 4 or 5 weeks of the season, we will move you into ‘Advanced’ during the reseeding process that occurs at the 5-week mark!):
- Monday Intermediate+ Women’s ‘6’s’ Mixer Nights
- Tuesday ‘Advanced’
- Tuesday ‘Intermediate Plus’
- Tuesday ‘Intermediate‘ – East
- Tuesday ‘Intermediate‘ – West
- Tuesday ‘Rec’
- Wednesday ‘Advanced’
- Wednesday ‘Intermediate Plus’
- Wednesday ‘Intermediate‘ – East
- Wednesday ‘Intermediate‘ – West
- Wednesday ‘Rec’
- Thursday ‘Advanced’
- Thursday ‘Intermediate Plus’
- Thursday ‘Intermediate’
- Thursday ‘Rec’
- Thursday Women’s 6s ‘Intermediate Plus’
- Thursday Women’s 6s ‘Intermediate’
- Friday Intermediate+ Men’s ‘6’s’ Mixer Nights
AGE
The age of our players can vary and can be anywhere from 19 (and older) to 80, and the key emphasis is on fair competition in a social, recreational environment. We are also a league that encourages sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct at all times, especially since games are self-officiated.
