Hello Parents,

Thank you to those that attended evaluations last Sunday. We are excited about what this season has in store. As a reminder, this Sunday, January 19th will be the start to our 2025 Winter Drop-In Volleyball League. 

Date: Sunday, January 19th

Location: University High School Main Gym, 4771 Campus Drive Irvine, CA 92612

Divisions:

5th-6th: 9:00AM to 10:30AM

7th-8th: 10:30AM to 12:00PM

Week 1 team rosters will be posted on the gym wall with court assignments. Staff will be available and present to help players find their courts.

Throughout the season, all players will get an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of volleyball (passing, setting, hitting, and serving) and work on developing their motor skills. Our goal as a recreational league is to provide a welcoming and fun environment to facilitate the best learning experience for all of our players. 

Please have your player wear their black SoCal Elite Volleyball t-shirt each week of the league. Outside of the t-shirt, we encourage all of our players to wear comfortable athletic apparel (bottoms and shoes). Other optional apparel would be knee pads or forearm sleeves (No jeans, skirts, and sandals/slippers). You will not need to bring your own volleyball as we will be providing them.

Apparel/Ordered Items Pick-up: For players that have not yet received their SoCal Volleyball t-shirt/ordered items, please come by our office during our operating hours.

Address: 12 Mauchly Ste P Irvine 92618

Hours: 10:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Days: Tuesday through Friday

Simply ring the doorbell at the front door and a staff member will assist you. Please mention you are participating in the 2025 Winter Drop-In Volleyball League. If our hours do not work for you please email us so we can arrange a different method for you to receive your apparel. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

Hi Parents,

This upcoming Sunday, we will be hosting our Player Evaluations/Intro to Skills for our 2025 Winter Drop-In Volleyball League. 

Date: Sunday, January 12th

Location: University High School Main Gym

Address: 4771 Campus Dr, Irvine, CA 92612

If you have not done so already please review our preseason page for details on specific times for each grade level and all ordered apparel: https://socalelite.org/volleyball/preseason/.  

The players info/list (filtered by first name) can be found before the details about evaluation. If you feel like there is an error either in name, grade, or gender please contact us so we can address your issues before arriving at evaluations. This will streamline the check in process. Grade should reflect the “2024-2025 School Year.”

Evaluations/Intro to Skills will be conducted by grade level:

5th-6th grade: 9:00AM to 10:30AM

7th-8th grade: 10:30AM to 12:00PM

Please plan to arrive 15 mins before your child’s start time as we need to get each player their “Evaluation ID Tag.” Dynamic warm-up will start promptly at each start time. Within the 1.5 hour evaluation, players will be introduced to foundations in passing, setting, hitting, serving, and team systems. 

Throughout the season we will be sending out emails. You can find all of our most recent updates posted on our website under League: https://socalelite.org/volleyball/updates/#leagues. 

Best Regards,

SoCal Elite Sports

Hello Parents,

Thank you for registering for our 2024 Winter Drop- In League! Here are some quick updates before our start date.

We will have Player Evaluations next Sunday, January 12th. During Evaluations, our coaching staff will be introducing basic fundamentals in passing, setting, hitting, serving, and team systems. This gives our coaches an opportunity to observe each player’s volleyball ability and knowledge before Week 1 teams are formed. Teams will be formed and shuffled each week by our coaches to provide a competitive and fun experience for all. Players will have a designated hour and a half  time slot to get evaluated by our coaches based on grade level. Please make sure the grade and gender of your child is correct on TeamSnap.

Player Evaluations/Intro to Skills, January 12th

Location: University High School Main Gym

5th – 6th Graders; 9:00AM to 10:30AM

7th – 9th Graders; 10:30AM to 12:00PM

Following Evaluations, The Drop-In League will run for 5 weeks from Jan 19th through Feb 16th  on Sundays. Please review our calendar of events, https://socalelite.org/volleyball/winter/#about. Each week players will get an opportunity to practice and play scrimmages/games. Practices and games will be run/coached by our volleyball staff. 

Drop-In Games: After practice has concluded, it is immediately followed by teams playing scrimmages/games. Depending on the division’s volleyball ability, there might be modifications to the games to provide the best experience (serve from anywhere on the court, coach initiated ball, allow a bounce, height of net, more than three contacts, etc.). Records will not be kept. Please expect for practices to be longer at the beginning of the league (weeks 1-2) as we want to make sure players have a greater understanding of how to play the game. As the league progresses, more time will be designated to play. The full duration of Week 5 will be designated to play scrimmages/games. 

Teams: Teams will be formed following Evaluations by our coaching staff to provide the best and competitive experience for all players. Teams can be Co-Ed and formed by dispersing talent as evenly as possible to ensure fairness – they are not limited by the number of boys or girls on each team. We will be following a drop-in format where teams will be reshuffled each week. This format is something we wanted to trial out this season.

Location: We are expecting to be using University High School as our site for the duration of the Winter Drop-In League.

Schedule: Our schedule for the whole season will be sent out the week after Evaluations. Practice/Game times will be dependent on the number of players in a division and gym availability. We expect to follow the same time slots as Evaluations each Sunday [5th-6th grade division 9AM-10:30AM and 7th-8th Grade 10:30AM-12PM].

If you have any questions or concerns about any information explained above, please do not hesitate to contact us.