Juniors
This section is specifically aimed at all juniors (and parents/ guardians) who want to find out about training sessions, competitions and events. Plymouth Mayflower Volleyball Club is a friendly club where we make sure that all participants enjoy all of our sessions and competitions in an environment where they feel safe and secure playing at a level that suits them.
Training Sessions
At Plymouth Mayflower Volleyball Club we have made sure that we run junior sessions all around plymouth for ages from 10-18 years old.
Our U15 sessions are at heles school which run from 5 pm til 6 pm, the session focuses on 2v2,3v3 and 4v4 games, also a range of techniques working on to progessing onto 6v6, the session cost £1 and is run by Andrew Potter and Luis Stansbury.
Our U18 sessions are at Ivybridge Community College which runs from 8 pm til 9:30 pm, the sessions focus on 6v6 gameplay, various techniques, rotations and specific positions. The session cost £4 and is run by Andrew Potter and Luis Stansbury
Competitions
For Juniors there are some good opportunities to represent the club and the region to go and play in big competitions around the South West of England.
For Under 15s (Year 10 and below)
The SW Junior grand prix tournament is all over the south west and below are the dates where it going to be held. The catergories are as follows - u15s, u14s, u13s and u12s for both boys and girls.
The next junior competition is on the 25h of November and will be held at Petroc College, Barnstable and the time will be from 10 am and finish at 2 pm
The following junior competition is on the 27th of January and will be held at Wellsway,Bristol and will start at 1:30 pm and finish at 5;30 pm
There is an additional SWJGP junior competition which will be on the 24th of February in Bournemouth 12-5pm
Finally There is a SW mini Championships competition which will be on the 10th of March and will be held at Hutton Moore SC ,Weston-Super-Mare and will be on from 10 am until 3pm
For u18s and u16s (Years !3 and under and Y11 and Under)
we have entered teams in each category for boys and girls for the Volleyball England National cup where teams all over the UK participate in a knockout competition. The standard of competion gets progressively higher after each round so is a great opportunity to not just represent the Club but also Plymouth and Devon.
Fixtures for these competitions can be found in the relevant team pages on our website
Inter-Regional Training (Y12 and below)
For those looking for even more training and can commit to travel, there are monthly open trials for the South West Inter Regional Squads in u17s and u15s boys and Girls categories too. if you are interested to play for the south west teams please email Luis at luis@sportsway.org if you are interested in playing in the grand prix or national cup email andrew@sportsway.org
South West Inter Regional Open training sessions
4th of November at Riverside LC, The session cost £10 and it will be for 3 hours
6th of January at Riverside LC, The session cost £10 and it will be for 3 hours
10th of February at LeAf Academy , the session cost £10 and it will be for 3 hours
Additional Events
Plymouth Mayflower Volleyball Club runs and attends events all over the South West and East Cornwall both on our own and as part of the School Games competition frameworks for Active Devon and School games organisers. these events range from primary volleyball festivals, junior grand prix events and school games level 1,2 and 3 competitions.We are also developing new opportunities for juniors competitons-details of these will be published when we have these confirmed.