13U Girls Age Class

13U Girls

LTAD Stages: Learning to Train and Training to Train

Principle Focus: To learn overall sports skills and to introduce and begin to develop basic volleyball skills.

Guidelines

a)    Registered teams must play in a minimum of 2 tournaments to a maximum of 6 competitions (not incuding Provincials or Nationals) with a minimum of one being an out of town (within Saskatchewan) tournament. (Each tournament entered in over the maximum will be fined equal to an Asics Cup entry fee).

b)    The Mikasa VUL500 Training Series will be the official competition ball for this age class.

c)    Head Coaches must be certified Level 1 in Volleyball at the time of registration. First time coaches will be given one year grace period to complete their Level 1.

d)    Entry fee for all 13U events will be $275 (single day).  Provincials will be a two day event and will be $325.

For an updated list of 13U Tournaments and locations please CLICK HERE

Tournament Structure

a) There will be no specialization of positions, ie. no switching to a differnet position from your service order.  Whoever happens to be in position #3 (or position #2, as designated on the score sheet) in your service reception will be hte designated setter for that rotation. 

Seeding

In order to comply with the principles within the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Model, we will not be awarding any points at any tournaments for athletes in the 13U age groups. “During competitions, athletes may play to win and do their best, but the major focus of training is on learning basic volleyball skills and tactics and successfully applying those skills and tactics in competitive situations as opposed to actual competition success” (Volleyball For Life, 2006, pg. 17).

For the Provincial Championships, teams may select whether they would like to play in Division 1 or Division 2. At Provincials, the re-pool structure system will be in effect, as there will be no basis for seeding.