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OVR Boys' Volleyball

Boys' Volleyball is Growing in the OVR!

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OVR Boys' Volleyball: September 2007 Update

OVR directors:

I am happy to announce that as promised and due to Nick's hard work, the OVR registration, boys' tryout sanctioning page, and boys' application for tournaments are all open for application.

Al Herbert has already posted some very welcomed boys' tournaments at Ohio Nets (Parma, Ohio). We are unsure of the projected number of 14 yr old teams which may be organized for 2008. Please let me know IF you if you are planning for a 14 yr old team in 2008. We are trying to provide enough Ohio tournaments to promote growth for the younger teams.

The OVR Boys' Winter Festival is scheduled for 1/26-27 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, and Regionals are scheduled for 2/23 and 2/24. Regionals will be run either on 2/23 or 2/24 – to be determined. I am attempting to run High Performance tryouts on Friday evening (2/22), and want to couple the HP tryout ages with the ages that play on Saturday 2/23. At this point, I am unsure of the HP approved ages for 2008; from what I can gather, in 2007 USAV's HP Florida championship tournament was organized for 16 year olds and younger.

What's working and not?
I have been in contact with many of local high school coaches (both boys' and girls'), and was able to obtain the volleyball group email addresses for the local CYO program of Northeastern Ohio, and have been promoting boys volleyball every chance I get. My boys' contact group address is now over 200 email addresses, and is still growing. I have been sending weekly updates of local volleyball activities. Most recipients are willing to help where they can, but are also frustrated by the lack of participation from the boys. I have already kicked off free open gyms which have been well received by the older boys, but participation has been lacking from the younger boys. It looks like this will be a long term process.

We are also working on a plan to run 3 vs 3, or 4 vs 4 rotating player scrambles to keep the boys involved during the off season, and am hoping to prepare and mail a brochure to both high school and grade schools which can be posted or distributed,which may be too late for this year?

We are attempting to update the OVR web with a page dedicated to boys. Please forward any suggestions or ideas of information that should be published.

Don Burroughs announced that impact clinics will be rolled out early in October. One has already been posted on the OVR IMPACT page.

Other earlier information:

Boys' Nationals are tentatively scheduled for Salt Lake City in 2008 - USAV has not yet confirmed.

Boys' teams in 2008 will not use National or Regional designations, but rather U – should facilitate organizing and filling tournaments.

Ohio high school permits high school coaches to coach three of your "own" players, and recently extended the 10 coaching days to 20 coaching days for boys.

If you need any help in starting a boys' team or club, please let me know. Please forward to anyone that I may have missed with a copy to me.

We need your help and comments to make the Ohio boys' program a success, feel free to send any suggestions to me!

Thanks for your time,

Loren Paulozzi
OVR Boys' Program Director
paulozzi@ovr.org
440-476-3932

OVR Boys' Regional Championships

Boys' Junior Olympic Volleyball Championships

2007 Atlanta, Georgia
At USA Volleyball: Results, Schedules, Standings, Photos, Teams, etc.
2006 Minneapolis, Minnesota
At USA Volleyball: Results, Schedules, Standings, Photos, Teams, etc.
2005 Louisville, Kentucky
At USA Volleyball: Results, Schedules, Standings, Photos, Teams, etc.
2004 Austin, Texas
Articles appear in the October 2004 issue of OVR The Block
2003 Phoenix, Arizona
Articles appear in the September 2003 issue of OVR The Block
At USA Volleyball: [ Results, Junior Journals, Photos ]
2002 Louisville, Kentucky
Articles appear in the September 2002 issue of OVR The Block
At USA Volleyball: [ Results, Junior Journals, Photos ]