general information

 
 

Volleyball Club Season Info

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 is usually tournament play. Tournaments are typically hosted Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun, anywhere throughout the province or Maritimes.  While our goral is to compete in one tournament roughly every three weeks, but the frequency may vary.

Club Tryouts Info

All clubs run their tryouts a bit diferently. 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.

We have two streams for teams - provincial travel, and local.  Local teams play in a league based out of Halifax.  We have invited other clubs to join our league as well.  Provincial travel teams will play in tournaments through NS and the Maritimes.

Players who are not successful in being selected to a provincial travel team will be offered a roster spot on a local team.  All teams, travel or local, will compete at Provincial Championships.

Volleyball Nova Scotia has created rules for the tryout period, and it is important that you understand the process. The rules can be found on the VNS website.

Tryout Process (Scotia Juniors approach to tryouts)

Nov 15 - 23 — Re-Signing Offer Period: Clubs can offer roster/program spots to returning players.

    • Returning offers will have 3 options:

      1. A spot on a specific team (A maximum of 25% of the roster will be filled this way). You are still expected to attend tryouts.

      2. A spot in the travel program, but team still to be determined. (A maximum of 50% of the roster will be filled this way). You will be evaluated at tryouts to determine which travel team you are selected for.

      3. A spot in the club, but stream still to be determined. You will be evaluated during tryouts to determine if you make the travel program. If not, you have a secured roster spot on a local team.

Nov 25 - Dec 1: Open Signing Period: Clubs can offer positions to new players.

    • We will send offers to players who are enrolled in our off-season programming who we would like to see continue their training into the club season.

    • 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.

    • We use this period to allow players from our fall programs the opportunity to secure a place in one of our programs - we do not actively recruit players who play for other clubs.

Dec 3 - 13 - 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 on travel teams, and then build our league teams

    • All interested players at tryouts for 16u and below will be given a spot in the club should they choose to accept the offer.

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.