Volley America to Bring Extra Benefits to Beach Players

March 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Volley America is entering its 3nd season in 2013 after a very successful inaugural season. The organization, a compilation of efforts by East End Volleyball and Great American Volleyball, is designed to promote cooperation among beach volleyball organizations around the U.S. to create benefit and coordinated seeding and scheduling for players

Volley America’s goal is to build an organization run by players for players that funnels its resources into benefits for members. The $15 annual membership fee funds player benefits such as:
•   $25,000 Volley America Grand Prix for doubles players
•   $10,000 Grand Prix for Grass Players
•   Volley America Nationals for doubles players
•   Volley America League Championships for 4 and 6-player division teams which includes a $1,000 costume contest sponsored by The Beach Hut
•   Discounts for purchasing sponsor products such as Park & Sun net systems
•   Prizes such as Spalding All Weather Volleyballs and Volley America clothing given to promoters
•   Insurance coverage for promoters allowing more beach volleyball events

Volley America has 19 member organizations with over 10,000 dues paying members:
•   East End Volleyball: RI, CT, NY, NJ, SC & FL www.eevb.net/
•   Great American Volleyball: NJ, NM & CA greatamericanvolleyball.com/
•   Newport Volleyball Club: RI newportvolleyballclub.com/
•   Bradford Beach: Wisconsin bradfordbeachjam.com/welcome.html
•   Tidewater Volleyball Association: VA playtva.org/beach
•   Kong Volleyball: FL www.kongvolleyball.com/
•   North Fork Volleyball: NY northforkbeachvolleyball.com/
•   Brigantine Beach Volleyball: NJ http://www.eteamz.com/brigvb/
•   Aspire higher Volleyball Super Center: FL www.ahvsupercenter.com/
•   Beach Sports: NC www.trianglebvb.com/
•   Quandomania: NJ quandomania.com/
•   Nashville Beach: TN www.nashvillebeach.com/
•   Boston Beach Volleyball: MA southbostoncorporaterental.org/default.aspx
•   Float Serve Volleyball: CA floatserve.com/
•   Sandbox Volleyball CT: New England sandboxbeach.com/
•   Sandbox Florida: FL www.sandboxvball.com/
Additional groups will be added as the summer approaches.

Current sponsors include Spalding King of the Beach All Weather Volleyballs, 4C Totally Light 2Go Powdered Drink Stix, Reflekt Polarized Sunglasses, Boardee Portable Scoreboards, ZemGear & Park and Sun Net Systems.

Volley America has instituted a National Ranking System that will be used to seed tournaments. The system will be based on the number of teams in a division and 4 levels of play: Open for professional level players, AA for very skilled, A for intermediate and B for novice level players. There will be divisions for male, female and coed doubles plus junior divisions 18 and under, 16 and under, 14 and under and 12 and under boys and girls.

One place where Volley America will be stronger than any previous national beach organization is in the recreational league area. With strong support from league programs at East End Volleyball (2500 players), Bradford Beach (1500 players) and Newport Volleyball Club (500 players), there is already a strong base for a national championship which will be held at Cedar Beach on Long Island, NY in September. Over 40 nets for 700 players will make the Volley America League Nationals an event not to be missed. There will be bands, food and drink at the host Beach Hut plus a costume contest with $1,000 given away to the best costumes.

Additional Doubles Championships will be held on the Jersey Shore in August, California in September and in October in Florida

For further information and applications contact East End Volleyball at 631-728-0397 or go to http://www.volleyamerica.com/ or the Volley America Facebook page.