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The mission of the Salem Volleyball Club, Inc. is to provide youth with the opportunity
to develop volleyball skills and to play volleyball, with quality
coaching in a positive environment that promotes good sportsmanship,
leadership, character development, personal integrity, and
self-discipline. |
CLUB HISTORY
Club volleyball has been around in Salem
since the early 70s. It began with Salem Men's YMCA and the Capital Volleyball Club.
Mike Batlan (our former president) and Terry McLaughlin (former head coach of Chemeketa CC) played for the Capital VBC. Kelly Wells (former head coach
at David Douglas high school in Portland), who played with Mike and Terry started the first junior
girls volleyball club in Salem in 1975. They competed under the name of Mid
Valley Volleyball Club.
Over the years, the number of junior girls
teams were increasing. Leading these efforts were Dave Haggerty (former
head coach at McKay and current OSAA official) and Karen McLellan (former head
coach at McNary). In 1992, South Salem joined McKay and McNary to form the Willamette
Valley Volleyball Club. Sprague and North Salem high school coaches joined in 1994. By this time, all five Salem
coaches were working together to improve the level of competition in Salem.
In 1996, club name was changed to Salem Volleyball Club (SVC).
We totaled 16 teams that year.
In 1998, our Club was split up,
coaches and/or parents from Sprague, McNary, and McKay decided to start their
own Club. Sprague created Capital City VBC, McNary created Keizer VBC, and
McKay formed a team from their high school. In 1999, Mike Batlan lead the
effort to reorganize our Club. That year, Mike, as our Club President
organized the board and our structure with Harmik as our Club Administrator.
We started with nine teams and in 2000, Capital City Volleyball Club merged with
us. In 2001, Keizer VBC's 16s,
18s, and players from McKay joined with us, making our club 15 teams
strong. Our Club once again was the largest club in our region and we have
maintained this position since then.
In 2001-02, we introduced the High Performance (HP) Program and the
Club Program. Our 5 HP teams finished strong with our 18 Black finishing 5th
in Gold. 16 Black finished 7th in gold. This season, we had 157
athletes from 37 schools participate in our programs. Our top teams have
consistently finished in the top 12 with our top 18s coaches by Michael Seemann
finishing 4th.
In 2004-05 season, Don Stupfel
took over the Club as our Club president. Harmik stepped away from
coaching a team to oversee all the teams as the Club head coach and
administrator. The Hoop decided to close it's doors forcing us to use any
available courts around the city. We utilized school district facilities,
the Salem Armory, and three sites with the Courthouse Athletic Club. In addition to our regular Club season, several players tried
out for the CEVA Regional High Performance teams, a program founded by Harmik. Kelsey Bashaw (Salem 18
Michael) and Maggie Rivers (Salem 16 Ryan) received their first international
experience by competing in the Junior Global Challenge in Salt Lake City, Utah. Katie Bashaw (Salem 14 Julie) also had a successful tryout and competed in
the U.S. High Performance Championship held in Austin, Texas.
In 2005-06, our club continued its growth to
12 teams. Practices were back the armory, Courthouse Athletic Club, and the ARC on state
Street. Our 16 Black team coached by Ryan Case (Stayton HS) finished 13th
in the region. Our
16 Black coached by Scott Hawkins (Cascade HS) and Dustin Walker (McNary HS) finished
12th. Our 14 Black coached by McKenzie Tennent (Stayton HS) finished 19th.
They also had a very successful tournament winning the Club Division at Emerald City Classic in Seattle. Alison Garrett was
awarded Tournament MVP. Emily Oslie and Kim Knaupp received All Tournament
award.
In 2006-07, Sunwest Management Corp. purchased
the Hoop and our Club once again moved to train in this great facility.
This season, we had 151 players from 34 schools. Two of our players, Maggie Rivers and Amber Kraaz (17 Black) were selected for
the CEVA Youth Regional High Performance team and traveled to Italy and Slovenia to
compete in the Junior Global Challenge. They competed against
several European teams, made new friends, and learned about new cultures.
Maggie currently attends Southern Oregon University and Amber is competing for
Northwest Christian College in Eugene.
Over the years, we maintain our growth and
last season, we had more than 180 players participate in our programs.
ABOUT USA VOLLEYBALL
The USA Volleyball (USAV) is the National Governing Body (NGB)
for the sport of volleyball in the United States. Consistent with the Amateur Sports Act of
1978 and the Constitution of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), USAV is recognized as
an Olympic and Pan American Sports Organization by the USOC. It is also the recognized national
federation to the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB).
The USAV maintains liaisons with the NAIA, NCAA, the NJCAA, and the YMCA. Other member
organizations include the Boy Scouts, the Special Olympics, the Armed Forces, and a number of
ethnic, recreational, and intermural groups. The USAV is divided geographically into 35 regions
covering 4 zones. We are in the Columbia Empire Volleyball Association CEVBA) which governs
Oregon and the three counties bordering Portland. There are over 75,000 members nationwide;
total CEVA region nearly 5,000.
The national offices of the USAV is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado near the U.S. Olympic
Training Center. Following, are additional information about USA Volleyball and CEVA:
USAV Web Site:
www.usavolleyball.org
New Site:
http://volleyball.teamusa.org/
CEVA Web site:
www.columbiaempirevolleyball.com
CEVA Address: 4840 SW Western Ave.,
Suite 450, Beaverton, OR 97005
Telephone: 503-644-7468.
Salem Volleyball Club is a tax-exempt organization under
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Officers and Board
Members
CONTACT US
Club Address:
Salem Volleyball Club ·
P.O. Box 3724 · Salem, OR 97302
Tel. 503-371-4667 ext. 202
