Overview of the Ohio Valley Region

Navigating this site

The OVR web site, www.ovr.org, is large, ramping up to several thousand pages during the peak of each season. Much of our content is dynamic, and its value and timeliness are increased tremendously by the active participation of the OVR's officers, tournament directors, club directors, team reps, and coaches.

Finding your needle in our haystack

Our Entry Page, Site Index, and Search Page are all aimed at helping our members and potential members find what they need quickly and easily. New users are encouraged to skim our Resources. Those knowing what they're looking for may prefer to jump directly to our Men's and Women's Programs, our Juniors' Programs, or our Officiating and Rules section.

Signing in

Many OVR members have usernames and passwords ("accounts") through which they can authenticate using the "Sign In" button. Once successfully signed in, the "Sign In" button for that session is replaced by a "My Account" button, which links to a customized list of shortcuts of functions relating to that account.

Anyone can create a new account. At the moment accounts are used primarily for authentication, but as we have time, the site will also allow for customization based on user preferences.

Signing in is recommended for club directors, team reps, tournament directors, officials, staff, and anyone else who needs to view or update information where identity matters. For example, club directors must sign in before recording their junior officials' certifications, and tournament directors must sign in before updating information pertaining to their events. Signing in ensures that information is only updated by the individuals who should be doing so.

If you are among the individuals who need an account to perform some restricted operation, please use the username that was e-mailed to you. Newly created usernames are not automatically associated with your identity in our database, so creating your own account will incur some delay as we make those associations on a case-by-case basis.

Usernames and passwords are case-sensitive. If you forget your password, you can have a new, randomly generated password issued. That password will be sent to your e-mail address: use it to sign in, then specify a new password that's both easy for you to remember and reasonably secure. A few checks are performed automatically on all new passwords to help with the security aspect.

Note that the sign-in facility requires that cookies not be disabled in your browser.