1. http://www.avca.org
The official home of the American Volleyball Coaches Association. The site provides a variety of timely volleyball information such as national polls for all four-year college divisions, weekly results, selected match recaps throughout the week, AVCA awards program including All-America and All-Region teams, key legislative news involving volleyball and general volleyball news items.

2. http://www.ncaa.org
The official home of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Includes national statistics for women's volleyball and regional rankings. The NCAA Championship web site, http://www.ncaasports.com, provides a wealth of knowledge on postseason volleyball in all three NCAA women's volleyball divisions and the men's national collegiate championship.

3. http://www.usavolleyball.org
The official home for the United States Volleyball Association. The site provides a wide variety of information related to all U.S.A. national volleyball programs, including news, events and results, national teams, camps, club teams, international play and High-Performance program.

4. http://www.fivb.org
The Federation Internationale de Volleyball, the international governing body of volleyball, provides a link to international volleyball news. The site is a way to keep up with student-athletes that may be playing overseas in international and professional competitions.

5. http://www.richkern.com
RichKern.com provides a source of information for Division I women's volleyball, and is expanding its coverage into NCAA Division II and II as well as NAIA women's volleyball.
 

B. Contact List

Contact for Division I, Division II, Division III Polls, Weekly Results, Daily Results, Previews
Will Engle, AVCA Manager, Media Relations & Membership Support
2365 Harrodsburg Road, Suite A325
Lexington, KY 40504
will.engle@avca.org 

Phone: (859) 219-3557 Fax: (859) 226-4338

Contact for Coaching Volleyball, "AVCA Facts on File"
Rick Capone, AVCA Editor, Publications & eServices
2365 Harrodsburg Road, Suite A325
Lexington, KY 40504
rick.capone@avca.org 

Phone: (859) 219-3559 Fax: (859) 226-4338

USA VOLLEYBALL MEDIA GUIDE REQUEST
USA Volleyball, the national governing body for volleyball, has requested that each school send a copy of its 2003 volleyball media guide. These guides provide the national coaching staff tremendous amount of information on evaluating potential national team players. The media guides will also be entered in USA Volleyball's Viggo O. Nelson National Publications Award contest, which is specifically for volleyball brochures. The contest is broken down by divisions as well.
 

Bill Kauffman, Manager of Media Relations and Publications

USA Volleyball

715 S. Circle Drive

Colorado Springs, Colorado 80910

AVCA MEDIA BENEFITS
Since 2001, volleyball sports information contacts receive AVCA media membership benefits at no cost if that particular school's head coach is an AVCA member. Among the information released to media members via e-mail are AVCA Facts-on-File (weekly divisional newsletter), national polls, weekly results, AVCA/Sports Imports Player of the Week releases and other volleyball-related releases. To be included on the AVCA SID e-mail list, please have your AVCA-member head coach forward your name and e-mail address so we can include you on our contact list.

AVCA On-Line Results Reporting Instructions - Web Version - PDF Version

CSTV/AVCA Top 25 Coaches Poll Daily Results Report
Since 2002, the AVCA reports twice daily (at approximately 10:30 p.m. ET and 12:30 a.m. ET or until the last match of the day is completed) a cumulative report of top 25 NCAA Division I match results to SportsTicker and various news outlets. Therefore, it is imperative that teams in the current top 25 send match results as soon as possible after the match. This can be done by updating their season schedule on-line as noted about in the AVCA On-Line Results Reporting Instructions.

All-America Team, All-Region Teams, National Players of the Year
The AVCA sponsors All-America teams for all three NCAA women's divisions, NAIA, two-year college and two NCAA men's division (Division I-II and Division III). In addition, the AVCA chooses an All-Region Team for all categories of four-year college women's volleyball. An AVCA National Player of the Year is selected for each category as well. The AVCA sends out a detailed timeline for the AVCA postseason nomination procedure to both AVCA-member head coaches and their SID contact.

Tachikara/AVCA National and Regional Coaches of the Year
The AVCA selects a National Coach of the Year for each category of women's volleyball and one for men's volleyball. Additionally, the AVCA selects one coach in each women's region (two coaches per region in two-year colleges) as part of the Region Coach of the Year program. The AVCA sends out a detailed timeline for the AVCA postseason nomination procedure to both AVCA-member head coaches and their SID contact.

Tachikara/AVCA Victory Club Award
The AVCA honors coaches for century milestone victories. The AVCA sends out the nomination form to both AVCA member coaches and SID contact. It is recommended to complete the form once the milestone has been reached. In addition, the AVCA promotes milestone accomplishments in the AVCA Facts on File, a weekly, division-specific newsletter. Please forward key information as coach's name, milestone victory number, opponent and date of match to the specific AVCA e-mail box for your division.

AVCA Team Academic Award
The AVCA Team Academic Award, initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors college and high school teams that displayed excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale and a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale during the school year. Nominating head coaches must be AVCA members. Nominating deadline is traditionally at the end of June, but exceptions are possible if notified of certain situations such as late-ending academic year and delay in getting registrar's report.

Sports Imports/AVCA National Player of the Week
The AVCA selects a National Player of the Week in all three NCAA divisions each Monday during the regular season, except for Tuesday after Labor Day, in the women's season. Division I and II conference SIDs must nominate athletes for the women's season, while Division III women's and all men's programs SIDs or coaches must provide the nominating details. The nomination form is sent to school SIDs, conference SIDs and head coaches in August for the women's season and in early January for the men's season.

Most volleyball publicity is done via the internet. As such, the sport does not have many national outlets that serve as a primary source of information for sports information directors. (The AVCA and USA Volleyball that serve coaches).

CSTV

CSTV is always looking for great stories and human interest pieces to air as part of their coverage of NCAA men’s and women’s volleyball.  With a full slate of action again scheduled for this fall we need your help to continue to cover the sport.  If you know of a player or coach with an amazing on or off the court story to tell fire off an email to CSTV’s News Editor Andy Elrick at aelrick@cstv.com and fill him in. Include your name and contact information and all the relevant information about the players and coaches involved.

 

ESPN.com
ESPN.com is also always on the look-out for feature articles on volleyball that not only will stimulate the volleyball fan, but also the general public. It often produces volleyball notebooks and feature stories on volleyball student-athletes and coaches. To submit volleyball information, send information to Dave Reed at dreed@coloradocollege.edu or Laura Reynolds at Lauren.K.Reynolds@espn3.com.

 
USA Today
Like CSTV and ESPN.com, USA Today is always on the look-out for feature articles on volleyball that not only will stimulate the volleyball fan, but also the general public. The company, the print and web domain, often produces volleyball notebooks and feature stories on volleyball student-athletes and coaches. For the print version, contact Craig Bennett, USA Today assignment editor, at cbennett@usatoday.org. For the on-line version, send information to dotcomsports@usatoday.org.

Volleyball Magazine
The monthly printed publication features all types of volleyball including collegiate, international, youth/club and professional. Contact Mike Miazga, Volleyball magazine editor, at mikevbmag@comcast.net.

Sports Illustrated
If a student-athlete at your school has done something remarkable on the field or in combination with off-the-field performance, Sports Illustrated has been good about including them in "Faces in the Crowd." It's a good way to get national recognition for your volleyball player AND program.