We would like to announce that all Achieve Volleyball Club players and coaches will be staying at the Downtown Wyndham in Phoenix.  The Downtown Wyndham, Downtown Hyatt and Downtown Sheraton are all very central and close to the convention center.  I would reccommend checking the festival website for special discount rates before trying to book independenlty. Festival Individual Housing Registration Form

Link to the Festival Schedule of Play.

This weekend both our 14s teams had very strong performances.  14-Boomtown keeps getting better every week and finished second in their pool.  14-SHS had a great showing finishing 1st in their pool.  Keep up the great work!

Congratulations to 14-SHS for going undefeated this weekend! 

The Chaminade Middle School Girls Delphic Volleyball team captured its first ever Delphic League volleyball championship, beating Harvard-Westlake in two close games; 28-26 and 27-25. Coached by 13-year Chaminade veteran volleyball coach and assistant athletic director Mike Anderson, the team was anchored by its captains and 3-year varsity starters, Rio Morigi (setter) and Reagan Clark (outside hitter). They faced tough competition from a Harvard-Westlake team led by its captain and hitter, Madison McAndrews. Morigi and McAndrews are club teammates with SCVA division 1 ranked Sunshine Volleyball Club in Santa Monica and Clark recently played for division 1 ranked Santa Monica Beach Volleyball Club.

Contributing to Chaminade Volleyball's recording breaking season were Achieve Volleyball Club players Sophia Adcock, Jasmine Burton, Lauren Donohue, Hailey Hunter, Tara Edrisavi, Ava Rezai, and co-captain and Elite Volleyball Club player Laurel Weaver. The team was rounded out by athletes Robyn Brown, Laurie Lebrock, Brittany Solis (voted the school's "most athletic 8th grader"), and Jessica-Rey Talavera.

The Delphic league finals were hosted by St. Matthew's in Pacific Palisades. Chaminade beat out St. Matthews in the league semi-finals and Harvard-Westlake earned its final spot by besting 2007 champions, St. Paul The Apostle Catholic School in Westwood, California.

The Delphic League championship tops off the most successful volleyball season in the history of Chaminade Middle School girls volleyball. The team previously took first place at the 2008 Roof Sportswear Annual Volleyball Festival, hosted by La Reina High School.

Front Row: Sophia Adcock, Tara Edrisavi, Brittany Solis, Lauren Donohue
Back row: Jasmine Burton, Rio Morigi, Coach Mike Anderson, Reagan Clark, Hailey Hunter, Robyn Brown, Jessica-Rey Talavera, Ava Rezai.
Not pictured: Laurie Lebrock, Laurel Weaver

-North Valley Community News

Matt Shubin helps lead Northridge Volleyball to a number one NCAA Division 1 Ranking.  This week the AVCA Coaches Poll Selected the Matadors as the # 1 team in the country.   The AVCA also awarded the Matadors outside hitter Eric Vance as the National player of the week.  The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation named the Matadors middle blocker Jacek Ratajczak as the MPSF Player of the week.  Northridge plays # 8 ranked BYU this Thursday and Friday night at 7pm in the Matadome.

I am very excited about 2009.  It is great to get to see the progress each team and individual player makes during the course of the year.  I am confident everyone will be blown away by the improvement that takes place this year.  And hopefully we will get to have a little bit of fun during the process.

I want to apologize for the difficulties with the registration and payment process.  We had a couple of bugs in the system.  For those who have had problems registering and paying we have simplified the process.  Now their is an easy payment link on the left side of our homepage.  Simply click on the "SUBSCRIBE" button and enter your payment info and you are done. We have divided the payments up into easy, even, monthly payments.  All payments are hosted on PayPal's secure web server so your info is secure.  

Travel Players- Make sure that we have 3 copies of your player forms and 2 copies of the parent forms.  

Please complete your payment and bring in your paperwork before our first practice.

Our current schedule is posted under the Calendar section.  

Looking forward to a great year! 

-Matt