general information

 

Volleyball Club Season Info (2025)

The competitive club season begins in December with tryouts, and continues until May/June, depending on which end of year tournament your team attends.

Competition format in the competitive season is usually tournament play (not league play). Tournaments are typically hosted Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun, anywhere throughout the Maritimes.  While our goal is to compete in one tournament roughly every three weeks, the frequency may vary depending on when tournaments are hosted.

In the off-season, June - November, we offer summer and fall programming and camps.

Club Tryouts Info

All clubs run tryouts a bit differently. At Scotia Juniors, we believe all players should have an opportunity to learn to play, so our goal is no ‘cuts' during the tryout process.  Players who would like to play will accept an offer (More info here) from the club, and then participate in evaluation sessions. We use the evaluation sessions to build our teams, building from the top team down.

Volleyball Nova Scotia has created rules for the tryout period, and they can be found on the VNS website.

Tryout Process (Scotia Juniors approach to tryouts) (2025 Dates)

Nov 10 - 15 — Open Signing Period: Clubs can offer roster/program spots to returning players or to new players. Players can also express their interest to a club.

    • Players will receive one of the following:

      1. A spot on a specific team (A maximum of 75% of the roster will be filled this way). You are still expected to attend tryouts.

      2. A spot in the club, but team still to be determined. Player cannot be cut.

      3. An offer to attend tryouts.

    • We will send offers to returning players, or to players who are enrolled in our off-season programming before we send offers to new players.

    • Players can also express interest to the club that they would like to play for, and the club can accept that expression of interest or invite them to tryout.

Dec 8 - 16 - Open Tryouts: Players attend tryouts and can be given an offer at any time during the period

    • Any player can register and tryout. Registration is required. (Register here)

    • We will fill remaining roster spots

It is important to note, players can be selected after the tryout period, however VNS states that once an athlete accepts an offer, they will not be able to switch teams/clubs.