The Santa Barbara Volleyball Club's 14-Blue had an amazing run at the 3-day Junior Olympic Qualifier in Southern California this past weekend.Having to come through a challenge bracket and play extra matches over the first two days in the Club Division, a tired but tenacious 14-Blue team gutted through two matches on Sunday to achieve a bid to compete at the Junior Olympics in Miami Beach this July.The first day, the team skated through an afternoon pool of three 2-game matches against … [Read more...]

This past weekend the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club 18’s, 15’s and 12’s teams competed in Anaheim at a regular Mandatory tournament. The 18 Blue and 15 Blue, after coming off a 3-day intense tournament the weekend before, both took 3rd for the day in division 1 of their age brackets. Coach Liz Towne-Gilbert was pleased with the results of her 18-Blue team, “The team played solid all day …Hitters Mimi Cuttrell and Samantha Wopat had great days offensively. Setter Sammie Brown did a … [Read more...]

The Santa Barbara Volleyball Club 15 Blue team won the Open division of the 3-day Southern California Girls Junior National Qualifier this past weekend.This team is no stranger to winning one of the tougher Junior National Qualifiers around, as last year, the team also won the SCVA Jr. National Qualifier in the 14-Open division and went on to place 15th overall in the nation in Dallas. … [Read more...]

The 15-Blue team, coached by Greg Gibbons and assisted by Todd Garrett, had a spectacular day Saturday in Anaheim this past week for the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club. The team beat arch-nemesis (and #1 seed overall) Mizuno Long Beach in 3 games to start the day!A subsequent loss in their second match to SVVC 15’s didn’t stop the team from winning the 3rd match against San Gabriel 15-Elite to get second in their pool. In playoffs, the team continued to steamroll through the … [Read more...]

Competing in the 14’s age bracket, Santa Barbara Volleyball Club's 13-White team won its second tournament in a row, which will move them up to Division 8 for their next round of competition this coming Sunday.The team beat Desert Sports, Protégé, and Mavericks all in 2 games. Coach Jessie Fahey gave kudos to her team:“The girls were unstoppable, and every single person contributed to this victory! Chloe Richman had a near perfect day, dominating the front row with effective tips … [Read more...]

The Santa Barbara Volleyball Club's 12-Blues team, coached by Tina Brown and assisted by Deia Kidd, went 2-1 in pool play in Division 3 at this past weekend's Mandatory #1 tournament, and it was enough to pull out a 1st place finish for the day based on a head-to-head tie breaker.The team had a rough start losing a 3-game battle to Hollywood Vikings, but then came back to beat Laguna Beach in 2 and Protégé in a close match winning the 3rd game 18-16! The game against Protégé proved … [Read more...]

This past weekend, many SBVC teams participated in final qualifying rounds and first regular season mandatory tournaments and begin the season on a remarkable note!Just coming off a 3-day tournament for both teams in the Las Vegas Invitational tournament over President’s weekend, on Sunday, the 18 Blue and 18 White teams came out swinging! Competing in the Gold bracket final qualifying round of their age division, they both took first in their pools to both begin the season in Division 1 … [Read more...]

An exciting weekend of winning for our young teams! Competing in the final qualifying rounds for their age divisions in the SCVA this past weekend, the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club teams shined in the gym despite the rainy, overcast weather outside. The final outcome of these tournaments places the team in their starting divisions for the rest of the club season and earns points for their overall ranking throughout the season. The 15 Blue and 14 Blue took first which places them in Division … [Read more...]

Several teams of the Santa Barbara Volleyball Club competed this past weekend in the second of three qualifying rounds of the Southern California Volleyball Association.The 15-Red and the 18-White teams had a banner weekend, winning all their matches and taking first in the pools.On Saturday in the 15’s Division, according to the coach Desiree Partlow, “Everything was one big highlight," said 15's coach Desiree Partlow of Saturday. "Every single girl contributed and played … [Read more...]

The 16 Blue, 17 Blue and 18 Blue teams opened their season by winning their first qualifying rounds of the Southern California Volleyball Association this past weekend.On Saturday, the 16 Blue team coached by Jake Hong and assisted by Dwayne Hauschild won all three of the matches earning themselves a bye through the second qualifying round of the Gold bracket. They won all their matches in two games beating SG Elite 16-Roshambo, Orange County 16-White and Bakersfield 16-Judy. … [Read more...]

This past holiday weekend, the 18-Blue team, coached by Liz Towne-Gilbert and assisted by Jared Godinez and John Sener, won the sixth annual MLKSpeakeasy Tournament.From the MLK SpeakEasy website:  “The MLKSpeakEasy event is a high level preseason scrimmage setup by a group of club directors in a spirit of camaraderie…hosted at Saddleback Volleyball Club's new facility in Mission Viejo, Southern California.” http://www.mlkspeakeasy.com/Sixteen of the top teams in the SCVA were … [Read more...]