Attendance :

Player attendance at all practices and other mandatory meetings is critical to the success of the player’s development and the development of the team.  Absences and tardiness take a physical and mental toll on the team and the coaches. Therefore, we, as coaches, must demand that our players place the appropriate priority on attendance and timeliness. We insist that volleyball be made a priority in order to players to participate at this level.

That being said, education should always be a higher priority. We have years of experience with players who needed extra help after school to those who were valedictorians and salutatorians.  In all cases, we have found that those students who make volleyball a priority will make time management decisions that will allow them to achieve high marks both in the classroom as well as on the court. We understand rare exceptions due to academic demands, but we will communicate with the players when we feel that he is taking it too far.  

Further, we understand that there are many extra curricular activities that are attractive to students, and applaud their efforts to be involved in their school. We feel that players wishing to be involved with a Junior Olympic level club such as our need to understand that the demands rise with the level of competition. For example, those adult members of our USA Volleyball organization who seek to play on our country’s National and Olympic teams have decided to make significant sacrifices. We expect our players to make sacrifices to the level that correspond with our elevated level of competition. 

These expectations are placed on the coaches as well as the players.

        Behavior :

With the various backgrounds that each of our players come from it is virtually impossible to expect that all march to the same tune when it comes to behavior. We have a code of conduct that we expect each player to abide by.  Throughout our history, there have been players asked to leave the club during practices, local tournaments and even during the national championships.

We demand that players treat everyone involved with our club with the utmost respect in their actions and words. Further, we will not tolerate un-sportsmanlike conduct of any kind with others teams players, fans, or the officials.

We wish for our club to compete at a high level and behave at the same lofty levels while on and off the court.

Players will be notified when their behavior is out of line with our policies and be given fair warning and time to correct the issue. After this time, the player is subject to termination from the club. In such case where a player termination is necessary, the action will be taken with no refund of fees paid.

   Refunds

As stated in the assumptions section above, the player’s fees are based on a certain number of players per team to share the team’s costs. Therefore, if a player leaves the club or is removed from the club there will be no refund. However, if the player finds another player who wishes to join the club and assume the same fees that the previous player had, then the club would refund the appropriate amount to the ex-player. This will be done within 10 days of receiving funds from the new player.