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Stay and Play 2025

June 22 @ 08:00 - August 9 @ 17:00

Camps are available as either RESIDENTIAL or DAY CAMP

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Emerging Elite is for committed volleyball players aged 14 to 17. The week-long camp will concentrate on a team-based, game simulation curriculum.

Emerging Elite is led by one of our experienced coaches and takes place in West Surrey’s best volleyball facility and features a coach-to-player ratio of approximately 1:6; all coaches are either experienced at national team or national league level, or participate in US university volleyball or national league clubs. The camp is international and will include residential players from other countries, many of whom attend to take the English language tuition that is available as an option.

For the elite athlete, the camp concentrates on specific skills for each position, game preparation, and tactical awareness.

It is for players who have several years’ experience in competitive play and who want to refine their skills and tactical awareness in order to play at club or university level.

The week long camp will test the athlete in a high intensity training environment under the watchful eyes of our coaches

Pathways is the VbDC program for 10-to 14-year-olds who have some limited experience of volleyball, either as a recreational game or their first years of competitive play.

The curriculum is designed for those who have decided they want to make volleyball one of their regular athletic activities and who are prepared to commit to long- term training.

Success for our sponsored teams …

It’s a successful time at the business end of the season for two of the teams that we sponsor.

In addition to sealing a place in the Final 4 Super League Play Offs at Crystal Palace over the weekend of 5th & 6th April London Malory men and women have both clinched Cup Final places at the end of April in Kettering.

At the other end of the scale with youngsters taking their first steps in a competitive tournament the Under 15 girls at the VBDC-Club won the Volleyball England Grand Prix Gold Cup at the National Volleyball Center in Kettering, beating local rivals Richmond in the final.

In addition to sponsoring the team, two of our directors, Deb Pickens and John Biddiscombe, also coach the team which comprises of some of the youngsters who have attended previous camps.

Malory Eagles Super League teams return to Surrey

Following on from the highly successful first pair of matches held in December, Volleyball Development Camps will again be sponsoring these Volleyball England Super League matches being staged at the impressive sports facilities at ACS Cobham.

Malory Eagle scored a double victory in early December over Essex Rebels in a pair of scintillating matches.

Youth Tournament of SV Dynamo Apeldoorn

VBDC Lions were the first team from England to play at the SV Dynamo Apeldoorn Tournament in Apeldoorn, Netherlands playing an exhausting 8 matches in 3 days.

At the presentation party the team were presented with the “Fair Play” award.

The team had been training hard ahead of the tournament as well as undertaking some fund raising including running a raffle at the recent Super League match between Malory Eagles and Essex Rebels which was hosted at ACS Cobham.

While the boys will be looking to take what they have learnt from this tournament into their respective teams for the second half of the season, VbDC are activly seeking out a suitable tournament for our girls to compete in.

Former VbDC Coaches do battle in CEV Champions League

A rematch between former VbDC coaches is shaping up for early in the new year in Belgium as Greenyard Maaseik Volleyball Club plays host to visitors PGE Projekt Warsaw in the CEV Champions League Mens Pool A. Massiek will be looking to over turn a 3-0 defeat in the reverse fixture.

Outsider hitter for Masseik is Cody Kessel, who has been an assistant coach at an Elite Camp, and the coach for Warsaw is Piotr Graben, who co-led an Elite Camp with Carol Gordon.

Incidentally another team in Pool A has a British connection with Joel Banks, former GB assistant coach now coaching Berlin Recycling also one of Cody’s former teams.

Tickets for the match on Wednesday 15th January can be ordered on the Maaseik website.

Summer camp alumns reunite at air base tourney

A recent tournament of Europe-located US Department of Defence high school teams held at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk brought several VbDC camp alumni back to England. Coach Brian Swenty, who has led two summer camps, brought his girls varsity squad from the US Army base at Vilseck, in southern Germany.

Swenty’s team, listing several freshmen starters from a school of just over 400 students, held their own against schools more than twice that size, including a tight-scoring three-set loss to the tourney’s dominant team from Kaiserslautern Germany, which had two more VbDC camp veterans on its roster: Bella and Marlee are ow in their freshman year, the athletes – who have attended two summer camps each – are already sharing starting setter duties for their varsity team.

The K-Town–Vilseck game was described as Kaiserslautern’s toughest match of the two-day event. Swenty and other coaches expressed an interest in partnering with VbDC to form an all-star travel team for a summer youth tournament in Europe in 2025.

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