Beach Volleyball Tournaments in Clearwater FL

It may seem like the beach volleyball season is over but it is not true.
East End Volleyball is returning to Florida for the 2nd Annual Winter Series at Club V

$1,000 Cash Prizes every weekend
Doubles, 4 & 6-player teams
Presented by Native Eyewear

Site: Clearwater, FL, at Club V Beach: See review of the facility at end of page.

Online Registration:
Please pre-register to speed up registration!!! We are limited to 18 courts

Schedule:
12/1-2
1/12-13: MLK Day Weekend
2/2-3

Prize Money: Look for a big increase in the Jan 12-13 Tournament to be announced later.
Men & Women’s Open $500 every Saturday
Merchandise in all other divisions

All results count towards EEVB’s 2008 $15,000 AVPNext Wilson Grand Prix

It’s Time for a Winter Volleyball Vacation!!

Times: Saturday check in at 8 to 8:30 am
Sunday 9 to 9:30 am

Sat: MO ($500), WO ($500), MAA, MA, MB, WAA, WA, WB

Sun: CO, CA, CB & MAA, Junior doubles (for boys and girls 18 & under and 15 & under)

4-player (any gender) & Coed 6s (minimum 1 female)

Prize Money Breakdown

Notes: Divisions with less than 8 teams may be merged with other divisions at tournament director’s discretion

Merged divisions will still have playoff for Grand Prix pts.

Prizes awarded to top 4 teams in each division (3 teams in divisions with less than 8 teams

MO, MAA, MA, MB, WO, WAA, WA all receive EEVB Championship Pool Pts.

Format: Men’s Open double elimination AVP Cross Over

All other divisions: Pool play, followed by single elimination playoffs.

Fees: Doubles $60/team

4-player teams $75, 6-players $75

No Parking fees at Club V!!!

AVPNext Memberships: $10/player; required of all players. Membership covers 1 calendar year from 1/1 to 12/31, AVPNext online registration, then bring your new membership confirmation email to the registration table

Directions: The complex is located on the East side of US 19 between 126th Avenue and Ulmerton road at (12901 U.S. Highway 19 North) in Clearwater.

Saturday Night Players’ Party: TBA: 2 complimentary beers and food for all players
Hotel: Use EEVB Expedia link.

Sponsors: Caribbean Tourism Organization; Native Eyewear, Venus Swimwear, Iron Horse Bikes, Atlantic City Convention & Visitor’s Authority, VolleyChick, Vincere Sand Socks, Spike Nashbar, Sweet Tomatoes, Rider Sandals, Park & Sun net systems, Dig Magazine, 6 Flags Great Adventure/Hurricane Harbor, Volleyball Magazine, Sportime

Saturday Night Players’ Party: TBA

Girls State Tournament 2007

The Massachusetts girls state tournament will host the regionals and finals for division 1, 2, and 3 this week through out the state.

Division 1

Semi 1- Andover vs. Barstable (Milton HS) 11/14 - 7pm
Semi 2- N Quincy vs. Milford HS (Ashland HS) 11/13 7pm
Finals - 11/17 6pm Hudson HS

Division 2
Semi 1 - Central Catholic vs. Bourne (Milton HS) 11/13 7pm
Semi 2 - Westboro vs. Longmeadow (Marlboro HS) 11/13 7pm
Finals - 11/17 3pm Hudson HS

Division 3
Semi 1 - N Reading vs. Ursuline (Walpole HS) 11/13 7pm
Semi 2 - Millis vs. Frontier (Marlboro HS) 11/13 4pm
Finals - 11/17 12pm Hudson HS

Visit www.miaa.net for more details

AVPNext/Wilson Nationals: Results

The AVPNext/Wilson National Championships were held in Clearwater Beach, FL on Oct 20-21. Hosted by East end Volleyball, it was the largest tournament ever in EEVB's 30 year history. Over 240 teams form 20 states and Canada participated in 12 Adult and junior Divisions. Teams were awarded $5,800 in cash prizes plus Wilson Volleyballs, Native Eyewear Sunglasses, Rider Sandals, dinner at Sweet Tomatoes and Spike Volleyball.com gift certificates. Players also earned double points in the $15,000 AVPNext/Wilson Grand Prix.

In the Men's Open Division Florida's Matt Henderson and Joey Cash defeated California's AJ Mihalic and Florida's Dana Camacho. Mike DiPierro, playing with Steve Grotowski from the Great Britain National Beach Volleyball Program, finished third wrapping up the Grand Prix Title and $1,000 1st place prize money for DiPierro. The other 3rd place team was Mark and Steve Van Zwieten.

The Women's Open Division was won by Florida's Tara Kuk and Kim Whitney, the best women's team on the East Coast, defeated Chara Harris and Brooke Langston, also from Florida. Third place went to S. Carolina's Vicki Vega/Lindsay Rust and Ola Wolak (NJ)/Iwona Lodzik (IL).

This tournament was truly a National Championship with players arriving from throughout the US and Canada to compete on the silky white sand of Clearwater Beach. Perusing the results shows that players from 17 states and Canada took prizes home with them at the end of the competitive weekend.

AVPNext, Wilson Sporting Goods and East End Volleyball have contributed $15,000 for a season long Grand Prix competition. Players have earned points all season long with the top players sharing the prize money at the conclusion of the 2007 season. Nine of the top 20 Men's Open players competed in the Nationals. Mike DiPierro was able to fight off Matt Henderson and win the $1,000 1st place prize even though Henderson won the National title. DiPierro's 3rd place finish gave him just enough points to lock up the season-long Grand Prix Championship.

In the Women's Open Grand Prix, 13 of the top 20 players competed in the Nationals. Rebecca smith was able to maintain 1st place ahead of her twin sister Rachel and the hard charging Tara Kuk.

The social highlight of the weekend was the Saturday Evening Bud Light Player's Party held at Shephard's Bach Resort, a very hot spot in the Florida nightlife scene. Close to 200 players came to the party to feast on complimentary Bud Light's and a food buffet supplied by Shephard's. The party went late into the Florida evening resulting in some slower play in the Sunday coed division.

Player's flew and drove out of Clearwater beach Sunday October 21 all looking forward to the 2008 Nationals which are tentatively planned for a return visit to Clearwater. All players should make sure they join AVPNext during the 2008 season to be eligible to compete in 2008 AVPNext/Wilson National Championships and $15,000 Grand Prix. For further info go to www.avp.com and click on Volleyball Nation.

Men's Open
1 Joey Cash/Matt Henderson FL
2 Anthony Mihalic/Dana Camacho CA/FL

3 Steve Grotowski/Michael DiPierro FL

3 Mark Vanzwieten/stephen vanzwieten FL

Men's AA

1
KEVIN LEGG
Jon Sundquist
FL

2
Mark Higginson
Mike Sandeman
FL

3
Peter Kopach
Pavel Nikulin
NY

3
Kevan Enger
Stephen Krohn
FL

Men's A
1
Dan Paynter
Luke Otto
WI
2
Josh Teague
Jason Kolczak
TX
3
Thomas Pucci
Steven Choi
NY
3
Ewan Brand
Bert Gideons
FL

Men's B
1
Chris Lucina
Jonathan Jennings
FL
2
Sara Bullock
BJ Whittington
FL
3
Tina Jichi
Hussein Mourtada
MA
3
Tobias Vigil
Jennifer Paravati
FL

Women's Open
1
Tara Kuk
Kimberly Whitney
FL
2
Chara Harris
Brooke Langston
FL
3
Vicki Vega
Lindsay Rust
SC
3
Aleksandra Wolak
Iwona Lodzik
NJ/IL

Women's AA
1
Lisa Ekmekjian
Linda Capizzi
NJ
2
Joyce Neilan
Terri Stripling
PA/FL
3
Kristen Marshall
Amy Shaker
MA
3
veronique paquin
jennifer dupuis
Can

9
Larissa Lang
Monika Carbochova
MA

Women's A
1
Joanna Jockish
Sharilee Doty
IN/FL
2
JULIE AGUSTIN
KELLY HOEMANN
FL
3
Monica McCoy
Catherine Collins
FL
3
Dena Dahlquist
Erin Harvey
FL

Women's B
1
Atara Oven
Jessica Oven
FL
2
Amanda Evans
Brooke Long
FL
3
Joanivette Negron
Falon Hendrick
FL

Co-ed Open
1
Mike Kuk
Lisa Ekmekjian
FL/NJ
2
Tiffany Snow
Jim O'Brien
FL
3
Rachel Reichard
Mike Floyd
FL
3
Mary Wilson
jeffrey bleitz
FL

Co-ed A
1
Ami Gideons
Bert Gideons
FL
2
Melissa Perkins
Nate Davis
FL
3
KELLY HOEMANN
Steve Hoeman
FL
3
Scott Bragan
Erica Bragan
FL

Scrambles - Save $10 - Bring a new player

As an incentive to bring new members into Yankee, anyone who plays in a scramble can bring up to 2 new players (who are not on the 5 year list) and get $10 off per player. The maximum discount offered will be $20. Yankee will run 3 more scramble and 1 clinic this session.

Clinic:
November 11th, Lasell College

Scrambles:
10-Nov SDVC (Clinton, MA) - Mens and Womens
9-Dec LSHS (Sudbury, MA) - Mens, Womens, and Reverse Coed(BR attack allowed)
12-Jan Bryant University (Smithfield, RI) - Mens, Womens, and Reverse Coed(BR attack allowed)

Board Meeting Minutes Oct 15th

Attendance: Samantha Lampert, Jonah Mytro, Jeff Sinnamon, Lynn Kerr, Chuck Blake, Jay Flynn, Daniel Chen
Confirmed No: Dave Castanon, Jeffry Powell, Tom Sweeney, Mark Archibald
Guests: Chet Oberhelman
Start time: 8:00pm
End time: 10:00pm

LOCATION: Mediaspike
Reports

Treasurer Report
Year end report $17,000 loss last year
avp costs, judy’s party, promotional items
Ultimate goal is to break even (we did that as there was a $16,000 “profit” from the year before)
Jonah will send out the budget to the board before next meeting

Registrar’s Report
Jonah from Judy
Goal is to be 10% over last year’s memberships

NERVA Report
No Dave!

Ratings Report
Ratings are finalized by Helen and Paul and sent to Tom and Judy
Helen is new women’s chair and sent her updated out two weeks ago
Paul Santos sent his ratings to Tom last week
They will go on web, on blog and to registrar
Jonah will ask chairs to put get the committee members email addresses posted on web
Regulations and standards
Ratings chairs know they have to submit the list for publishing to Yankee every two weeks

Blog Report/Email List
Jonah updates every other day
540 people signed up for Yankee Volleyball mailing list
Will start doing a monthly Enewsletter via mailing list (1st weekend of the month)

Web Editor Report
Add Tom’s Report
Option C, let TDs know they do need to double check the line-ups until this works itself out
Discussion of team registration
Can Tom add TD override so that TDs can enter teams (without details) – for the case that they get checks without teams registering online

GRC Report
Scrambles Update
2 at Bryant with 6 women’s teams and 5 men’s teams
11 new members
Regis
11 new members
Had women who wanted to play men’s scramble
Jonah did not let this happen so that there would be space for walk-ons
Recommendation to host coed scrambles
Will try to run this at LS scramble
Should think about offering “standyby registration” in case we’re short on players
Jonah to remind players that if they bring a new member to a scramble they get $10 off per member, up to 2 members (last year’s board voted on this)
Daniel would like TDs to promote the write-up sheet at the tournament and make sure the appropriate level raters are present
Jeffry’s Progress on collecting college program contact info
Submitted via email: About 25% complete on the list of college/club contact information
Will try to complete it before the end of D3 season.

Bylaws Committee Report
Will set up possible meeting to look through and will continue to encourage committee members to update

Old Business:

Approval of past minutes
Jeff motion to approve minutes, Jonah seconds, Unanimous approval
This was originally done over email, but done again in person this time.

Storage Unit
How do board members access if needed?
Jonah will give out keys, name of location and address

Old Meeting minutes
Sam has all that were missing, will go through them and get to Tom for posting

Championships – items to be discussed per Chet’s suggestions so we get all the planning done in advance.
We will run championships this year
Vote on Championship TD
Championship entry cost = - $140 last year should prob. go up to $150
Teams that do not make the min/max ratings can not play – should they be allowed to play and just not make playoffs
National Mapping
Uniform Numbers: championship guidelines change so that you cannot play if you do not have a proper number
Last year all tournaments were round robin
Teams that win regionals that are going to nationals get a cash stipend
No late starts, all must be present at captains meeting
Coed Reverse c, c-, c+ - would male br attacks be allowed?
Chet presented a tentative championships schedule for the month of May
If we set a check date then all checks are guaranteed a spot
Last year the information was released too late; so get it out faster this year to increase turnout
Sam will need to update the championship guidelines
Chet is available to TD championships again next year
Jonah motions that Chet should be the Championship TD, Jay seconded
For: Lynn, Daniel, Chuck, Jeff, Sam
Opposed: None
Jonah motions he gets the same stipend as last year, Jay seconded
For: Lynn, Daniel, Chuck, Jeff, Sam
Opposed: None

Stipend Adjustment
Sam – Share Emails on this with Board
Discussion ensues
Will table until after budget is out
Currently stipends go to Registrar, Assigner, Bookkeeper, Newsletter Editor/Publisher

Ratings Committee
Should there be a minimum number of tournaments that each rater should attend (Jeff)
Should raters be assigned to tournaments? (Sam)
We should make sure raters are currently active players. (Jay)
Jonah will check in with head raters to make sure all members of the ratings committee are still interested in their roles.

Yankee communication
Updated board on this month’s bavp communications

Tournament Directing and Related Topics
Online NERVA Registration Feedback
Online Team Registration Feedback
Adding Paypal to Team Registration page for teams that use it
Individual TDs can do this themselves
You cannot have a fee or surcharge via paypal as this is a MA state law…so be careful how you phrase charging for the paypal fee in addition to the tournament fee.
Tournament Director Check Cashing Policy Needed
One new TD cashed all his checks right away
Jonah has contacted that TD about that issue
Checks should not be cashed until the Thursday before the tournament
Jeff motions that you should cash checks no earlier than the Thursday before the tournament or later than 30 days after
Jonah seconds
For: Unamimous
Sam will add to TD guidelines document
Team Captain Incentive Program
Look into after the budget comes out
Reward for captaining multiple teams per session
Look into a way of combining individuals to make teams
Jeff volunteers to look into an electronic way of doing this

Complaints about the skeleton and suggestions for updates
Scrambles affect the lower levels, next year it will be changed back to 3 instead of 5
Will do less in the coming spring season

Board Meeting Locations
Next meeting will be at Lasell

Rules and Regulations
Sam is currently going through and updating; will send out revised document for discussion before next board meeting. We will hopefully vote and approve them at the next board meeting.

New Business

Next Meeting: Nov 19th, 7:30 pm at Lasell College

FenwayMarketingGroup update
Jonah met with them
They verified that 8 announcements were made over the weekend
They will be back in early July and want us to renew our sponsorship

Meeting Adjourned

Board Meeting Minutes,

Attendance: Samantha Lampert, Jonah Mytro, Jeff Sinnamon, Lynn Kerr, Chuck Blake, Jay Flynn, Daniel Chen
Confirmed No: Dave Castanon, Jeffry Powell, Tom Sweeney, Mark Archibald
Guests: Chet Oberhelman
Start time: 8:00pm
End time: 10:00pm

LOCATION: Jonah’s Office

Reports

Treasurer Report
Year end report $17,000 loss last year
avp costs, judy’s party, promotional items
Ultimate goal is to break even (we did that as there was a $16,000 “profit” from the year before)
Jonah will send out the budget to the board before next meeting

Registrar’s Report
Jonah from Judy
Goal is to be 10% over last year’s memberships

NERVA Report
No Dave!

Ratings Report
Ratings are finalized by Helen and Paul and sent to Tom and Judy
Helen is new women’s chair and sent her updated out two weeks ago
Paul Santos sent his ratings to Tom last week
They will go on web, on blog and to registrar
Jonah will ask chairs to put get the committee members email addresses posted on web
Regulations and standards
Ratings chairs know they have to submit the list for publishing to Yankee every two weeks

Blog Report/Email List
Jonah updates every other day
540 people signed up for Yankee Volleyball mailing list
Will start doing a monthly Enewsletter via mailing list (1st weekend of the month)

Web Editor Report
Add Tom’s Report
Option C, let TDs know they do need to double check the line-ups until this works itself out
Discussion of team registration
Can Tom add TD override so that TDs can enter teams (without details) – for the case that they get checks without teams registering online

GRC Report
Scrambles Update
2 at Bryant with 6 women’s teams and 5 men’s teams
11 new members
Regis
11 new members
Had women who wanted to play men’s scramble
Jonah did not let this happen so that there would be space for walk-ons
Recommendation to host coed scrambles
Will try to run this at LS scramble
Should think about offering “standyby registration” in case we’re short on players
Jonah to remind players that if they bring a new member to a scramble they get $10 off per member, up to 2 members (last year’s board voted on this)
Daniel would like TDs to promote the write-up sheet at the tournament and make sure the appropriate level raters are present
Jeffry’s Progress on collecting college program contact info
Submitted via email: About 25% complete on the list of college/club contact information
Will try to complete it before the end of D3 season.

Bylaws Committee Report
Will set up possible meeting to look through and will continue to encourage committee members to update

Old Business:

Approval of past minutes
Jeff motion to approve minutes, Jonah seconds, Unanimous approval
This was originally done over email, but done again in person this time.

Storage Unit
How do board members access if needed?
Jonah will give out keys, name of location and address

Old Meeting minutes
Sam has all that were missing, will go through them and get to Tom for posting

Championships – items to be discussed per Chet’s suggestions so we get all the planning done in advance.
We will run championships this year
Vote on Championship TD
Championship entry cost = - $140 last year should prob. go up to $150
Teams that do not make the min/max ratings can not play – should they be allowed to play and just not make playoffs
National Mapping
Uniform Numbers: championship guidelines change so that you cannot play if you do not have a proper number
Last year all tournaments were round robin
Teams that win regionals that are going to nationals get a cash stipend
No late starts, all must be present at captains meeting
Coed Reverse c, c-, c+ - would male br attacks be allowed?
Chet presented a tentative championships schedule for the month of May
If we set a check date then all checks are guaranteed a spot
Last year the information was released too late; so get it out faster this year to increase turnout
Sam will need to update the championship guidelines
Chet is available to TD championships again next year
Jonah motions that Chet should be the Championship TD, Jay seconded
For: Lynn, Daniel, Chuck, Jeff, Sam
Opposed: None
Jonah motions he gets the same stipend as last year, Jay seconded
For: Lynn, Daniel, Chuck, Jeff, Sam
Opposed: None

Stipend Adjustment
Sam – Share Emails on this with Board
Discussion ensues
Will table until after budget is out
Currently stipends go to Registrar, Assigner, Bookkeeper, Newsletter Editor/Publisher

Ratings Committee
Should there be a minimum number of tournaments that each rater should attend (Jeff)
Should raters be assigned to tournaments? (Sam)
We should make sure raters are currently active players. (Jay)
Jonah will check in with head raters to make sure all members of the ratings committee are still interested in their roles.

Yankee communication
Updated board on this month’s bavp communications

Tournament Directing and Related Topics
Online NERVA Registration Feedback
Online Team Registration Feedback
Adding Paypal to Team Registration page for teams that use it
Individual TDs can do this themselves
You cannot have a fee or surcharge via paypal as this is a MA state law…so be careful how you phrase charging for the paypal fee in addition to the tournament fee.
Tournament Director Check Cashing Policy Needed
One new TD cashed all his checks right away
Jonah has contacted that TD about that issue
Checks should not be cashed until the Thursday before the tournament
Jeff motions that you should cash checks no earlier than the Thursday before the tournament or later than 30 days after
Jonah seconds
For: Unamimous
Sam will add to TD guidelines document
Team Captain Incentive Program
Look into after the budget comes out
Reward for captaining multiple teams per session
Look into a way of combining individuals to make teams
Jeff volunteers to look into an electronic way of doing this

Complaints about the skeleton and suggestions for updates
Scrambles affect the lower levels, next year it will be changed back to 3 instead of 5
Will do less in the coming spring season

Board Meeting Locations
Next meeting will be at Lasell

Rules and Regulations
Sam is currently going through and updating; will send out revised document for discussion before next board meeting. We will hopefully vote and approve them at the next board meeting.

New Business

Next Meeting: Nov 19th, 7:30 pm at Lasell College

FenwayMarketingGroup update
Jonah met with them
They verified that 8 announcements were made over the weekend
They will be back in early July and want us to renew our sponsorship

Meeting Adjourned

Yankee Volleyball Clinic

Yankee Volleyball is running a mens and womens drills clinic on november 11th at Lasell College. Clinics run for 2.5 hours and give players training and coaching in all aspects of volleyball including passing, hitting, defense, blocking, setting, and serving.

The clinic will be run by collegiate and high school coaches and organized to help teach individuals skills as well as team philosophies.

The cost is $10/pp and all participants will be receiving a numbered Yankee jersey.

We will accept new and existing members rated C- to C+. Space is limited and we will be accepting 40 men and 40 women per session.

November 11th 2007
Mens Session - 11:30am - 2pm
Womens Session - 9am-11:30am
Location: Lasell College (Newton, MA)

Sign-up by sending a check for $10 to NERVA to:
Yankee Clinic
c/o Jonah Mytro
10 Scottfield RD #22
Allston MA 02134