Tuesday, February 8, 2011

NCAA Sand Volleyball Parameters

The 2011 NCAA convention got a ton done on the sand volleyball front. Some parameters vary depending on if the school has a women's indoor volleyball team or not. A Dual is a one-day competition format borrowed from tennis, where all 5 teams face off in order of rank. 1 v 1, 2 v 2, 3 v 3, etc. The basics of D1 Collegiate Sand Volleyball:

The Setup:
  • 2 sand coaches
  • 2 sand recruiters
  • 14 sand players
  • 8-16 Contests
  • 3 sand scholarships (increasing 1/yr until there are 6 scholarships for dual-sport schools and 8 for sand-only schools)
The Season
  • 132 day sand season split into 2 segments: 
    • The Nonchampionship Segment starting September 7th- 2 Contests can be entered
    • The Championship Segment starting on the first Thursday in March through end of Recognized National Championships- 16 Contests can be entered
  •  The above Contest limits don't include championship, alumni games, fund-raising, charity, or celebrity events
  • One Dual per year against a Club Team can count toward minimum competition requirements
  • One Tournament per year may count as long as 40% of teams are club teams


 The Competitions:
  • 8 to 16 Competitions consisting of Duals and Multi-opponent Tournaments
  • At least 3 competitions have to be Duals
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3 comments:

  1. BeachVolleyMikeFebruary 8, 2011 at 11:58 AM

    The parameters hint toward the development of sand volleyball club teams to compete against, and I believe it will be a desired means of practice to scrimmage club teams. Club teams will also be invited to play in tournaments, although they can't be more than 40% of the teams entered. This means the more established and organized club teams will be entered into NCAA level tournaments! There's no better way to do that than through the CBVL

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  2. SmittybearFebruary 13, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    First- this just blew open a new world.
    Second- any difference between CBVL & CBVA?

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  3. BeachVolleyMikeFebruary 14, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    The CBVL is the result of my senior project- recruiting beach volleyball clubs to band together (and form clubs at colleges without them) and make beach an official "club sport". CBVL is my creation and I hope colleges use my website to build clubs and join for free to network in the collegiate beach community.

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