Beginning next month, young volleyball players will have another place to learn and develop their skills as the South Cowichan Volleyball Club gets underway.
Brentwood College School head coach Jill Fougner is starting up the program, which continues the legacy of strong club teams in the South Cowichan region.
The club will start up with teams for U17 and U18, U15 and U16, U13 and U14 players. It is limited to girls right now, but coaches are hoping to expand to add boys’ teams.
More information about the club can be found at facebook.com/southcowichanvolleyball
Pre-registration forms are available on the Facebook page. Anyone interested should fill them out and email them in ahead of evaluations in early December.
“We’re not calling them ‘tryouts,’” Fougner related. “We want to make it welcome for everyone. The numbers will dictate what we decide to do with the teams.”
U13/14 evaluations will begin on Dec. 7 at 4 p.m. at Cobble Hill Elementary School. U15/16 evaluations will go on Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. at George Bonner Elementary. U17/18 evaluations will go on Dec. 8 at Bonner.
Organizers aren’t expecting players to give up other sports in favour of full-time volleyball, and are willing to work with other schedules.
Coaches include Cow High grad and Brentwood teacher Sarah Hall and Kelsey grad Alyssa Fuggit for the U13/14 team, Kelsey grad and former UBC player Dannie Richards and Kelsey grad and Brentwood assistant coach Mike Minckler for the U15/16s, and Fougner and Andrea Dougan, another Kelsey grad, for the U17/18s.
