16u Girls Club Team
For female athletes born between Sept 2009 and Dec 2010
For female athletes born between Sept 2009 and Dec 2010
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Season Length
The team will begin training in early/mid December, with full intensity training beginning in January. The season ends after nationals in late May. |
Tryout Dates
Tryouts will take place on November 30th at Pacific Academy, and December 1st, and 2nd at Crescent Heights Academy. Registration opens on Oct 15th, and the link is available below! |
Training Overviewteam practices
There will be 3 team practices per week. The focus will be on skill development, team culture and connections, and game systems. SCHEDULE: Monday: 6:15-8pm Thursday: 7:30-9:30pm Friday: 6:30-9pm *locations TBA positional reps
We will hold position specific reps practices approximately every second week. This gives us a chance to allow each athlete to further develop at their specific position. Positional training will take place on Wednesdays at Martha Currie with Coach Matthew. film review
This is a key aspect of our training. The team will have bi-weekly film review sessions to analyze our gameplay and determine area for improvement, and to help each athlete develop a deeper understanding of the game. Bi-weekly film review is tentatively planned for Fridays before practice. Each session will be 25-30 minutes. |
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CoachesHead Coach: Graham Wilder
Coach Graham has been coaching club for several years and this is his second year coaching full-time with Velocity! He has been playing Volleyball for almost 15 years now and has a deep passion for the sport and for learning to overcome challenges. Scroll down to see a message from Coach Graham! Assistant Coach: Ella Bedard Positional Reps Coach: Matthew Armstrong |
Tournaments
Underlined events count towards Volleyball BC season rankings
*Schedule is subject to change: VBC Club Competition Calendar
Underlined events count towards Volleyball BC season rankings
*Schedule is subject to change: VBC Club Competition Calendar
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VBC Regional Event Fraser Valley: Jan 10th VBC Regional Event Lower Mainland: Jan 11th Velocity 16u Tournament: Jan 17th |
Div 1/2 Qualifier Tournament: Feb 7th-8th VBC Regional Event Fraser Valley: Feb 22nd Island Super Series: Feb 28th - Mar 1st |
Fraser Valley Super Series: Apr 11-12th Provincial Championships: May 1-4th National Championships (Calgary): May 28-31st |
Additional Season Detailsteam Gear
Our club team athletes will be wearing head-to-toe Mizuno gear. This year's gear package includes the following:
Season fees
The fees for the season will be approximately $2400. This includes tournament registrations, practices, positional reps, film review, insurance, equipment, jerseys, clothing, coach registration and NCCP courses, operating costs, and many other costs. The team fees do not include Volleyball BC registration for each player, and travel costs for the players and coaches. The coach travel costs will be split amongst the players and billed later in the season. Play time
Our goal is to be as transparent as possible about play time for each player! There are no fairplay rules at 16u. Technically, a player could be on the bench for the entire season. We don't do that at Velocity, but we also don't play all athletes an equal amount of time. Our priority in competitions is to play the at our team's highest level. This is how playtime will work on our 16u team.
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message from the coach...
I am thrilled to be able to work with this team and am stoked to see our players grow, learn, compete and have fun together both on and off the court! 16u is a great time for players to develop position specialization and learn to uniquely contribute in their role on the team and grow in confidence. It is also an opportunity to wrestle with one's personal limits and discover the consequences of intentionality.
What is intentionality? Intention, intensity, tension, attention all share a root word meaning to stretch or strain. When we are engrossed in a difficult but achievable challenge and straining our focus towards it, we are stretched in our ability to tackle similar tasks. As we accomplish more and more variety of these challenges, our confidence grows. Our confidence can then feed back in to the intensity that we are able to apply to new problems. But it is not random. Intentionality is the thoughtful, measured and evidence-based approach to a novel experience. For me, this kind of problem solving develops the most versatile, confident, creative and enjoyable players to coach and to watch.
How will the Velocity 16u team be different than other 16u club teams? For one, our team culture. By rewarding curiosity and effort over talent, focus and attention to our reps, and teamwork over individual highlight reels, we will create problem solvers with range so that confidence in learning spills back and forth between on and off the court. Additionally, our program for this age group is more comprehensive than others. Bi-weekly film review, dedicated positional reps in addition to 3x team practices per week, with personalized skill tracking (updated bi-weekly) that tracks the top 3 skill development focuses for each player and the specific puzzles needed to be solved, will allow each athlete to progress at a faster rate than most other clubs.
For parents... Club Teams are a significant investment of both time and finances. If you and your daughter's only goal is to have fun, there are many cheaper and easier ways to do so. Yes, our club players will have fun, but there is also a much greater expectation from our club players that will push them into difficult situations that they will overcome. Our goal is to make this a rewarding experience for the athletes.
How do we define a rewarding experience? If a player matures as an athlete and person, gains a deeper understanding and appreciation of the game of volleyball, increases their self esteem due to accomplishing challenges, and improves their ability to remain steady through the ups and downs of competitive sport, then this will be an season that they are proud of and grateful for.
No athletes (or coaches) are ever perfect, but we must aim to always be extending our limits. If you share this aim and vision, we hope to see you at tryouts!
-Coach Graham
I am thrilled to be able to work with this team and am stoked to see our players grow, learn, compete and have fun together both on and off the court! 16u is a great time for players to develop position specialization and learn to uniquely contribute in their role on the team and grow in confidence. It is also an opportunity to wrestle with one's personal limits and discover the consequences of intentionality.
What is intentionality? Intention, intensity, tension, attention all share a root word meaning to stretch or strain. When we are engrossed in a difficult but achievable challenge and straining our focus towards it, we are stretched in our ability to tackle similar tasks. As we accomplish more and more variety of these challenges, our confidence grows. Our confidence can then feed back in to the intensity that we are able to apply to new problems. But it is not random. Intentionality is the thoughtful, measured and evidence-based approach to a novel experience. For me, this kind of problem solving develops the most versatile, confident, creative and enjoyable players to coach and to watch.
How will the Velocity 16u team be different than other 16u club teams? For one, our team culture. By rewarding curiosity and effort over talent, focus and attention to our reps, and teamwork over individual highlight reels, we will create problem solvers with range so that confidence in learning spills back and forth between on and off the court. Additionally, our program for this age group is more comprehensive than others. Bi-weekly film review, dedicated positional reps in addition to 3x team practices per week, with personalized skill tracking (updated bi-weekly) that tracks the top 3 skill development focuses for each player and the specific puzzles needed to be solved, will allow each athlete to progress at a faster rate than most other clubs.
For parents... Club Teams are a significant investment of both time and finances. If you and your daughter's only goal is to have fun, there are many cheaper and easier ways to do so. Yes, our club players will have fun, but there is also a much greater expectation from our club players that will push them into difficult situations that they will overcome. Our goal is to make this a rewarding experience for the athletes.
How do we define a rewarding experience? If a player matures as an athlete and person, gains a deeper understanding and appreciation of the game of volleyball, increases their self esteem due to accomplishing challenges, and improves their ability to remain steady through the ups and downs of competitive sport, then this will be an season that they are proud of and grateful for.
No athletes (or coaches) are ever perfect, but we must aim to always be extending our limits. If you share this aim and vision, we hope to see you at tryouts!
-Coach Graham
Tryout Registration
If you would like to join the team, you must register for tryouts. Tryout registration opens on Oct 15th. We highly recommend registering for the earliest possible tryout date.
REGISTER HERE
REGISTER HERE