Hi Parents,

This upcoming Saturday, we will be hosting our Player Evaluations/Intro to Skills for our 2025 Spring Volleyball League.

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 teams are formed by Week 1 of practice/scrimmages. Teams will be formed 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.

Date: Saturday, March 22nd

Location: Irvine High School Practice Gym

Address: 4321 Walnut Ave, Irvine, CA 92604

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

4th-6th grade: 2:30PM to 4:00PM

7th-9th grade: 4:00PM to 5:30PM

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. Following evaluations, we hope to publish our schedule and team rosters by the end of the following week.

Hello Parents,

Thank you for registering for our 2025 Spring Volleyball League! Here are some quick updates before our start date.

We will have Player Evaluations on Saturday, March 22nd, 2024. 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 teams are formed by Week 1 of practice/scrimmages. Teams will be formed 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.

Time and Location for Player Evaluations will be sent out next week.

Those who volunteered to be Evaluation Coordinators or Volunteer Coaches will be contacted separately on how you will be helping out during the league.

Following Evaluations, The League will run for 7 weeks from April 1st through May 31st on Saturdays. Please review our calendar of events, https://socalelite.org/volleyball/spring/#about. Each week players will get an opportunity to practice and play scrimmages/games. Practices will be run by our volleyball coaching staff and assisted by our Parent Volunteer Coaches.

League Scrimmages: After practice is over, 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 1-3) 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 7 (last week) 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. If there are enough players in your division, we will build an intermediate and beginner bracket. Divisions may be modified based on number of registrants.

Location: We are still waiting for all gym permits/approval from the City and District. We currently do not know the exact locations/gyms we will use for the upcoming 2025 Spring League. However, it looks like we will most likely be utilizing University High School starting at 1pm on Saturdays during this season. Other locations that we have used in the past are Northwood High School, Irvine High School  and Portola High School.

Schedule: Our schedule for the whole season will be sent out after teams are formed. Practice/Game times will be dependent on the number of players in a division and gym availability. Please expect your practice/game time to be played within the time slot of 12:00pm to 6:00pm on Saturdays during the 7 week league. The youngest division plays first.

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