Our league is specifically designed for youth players aged 7 to 18. We organize teams into distinct age brackets to ensure fair competition, safety, and age-appropriate skill development tailored to each stage of growth.  Sometimes you can have a very athletic child who is more talented than his/her peers and sometimes you can have a child that has little to no experience and would be overwhelmed around kids that are much further along than they are.  We allow you to decide if your child should be in the younger group or the older group depending on where you think they will be the most comfortable.  If they like to be challenged and do better with higher expectations then register them in the higher group...but if they feel more comfortable having less expectations then register them in their regular age group.

Not at all! We welcome players of all skill levels, from complete beginners to advanced athletes. Our focus is on fundamental skill growth and providing a supportive, high-energy environment to learn and love the game.  If their skill level is greater than the rest of their team, the coaches can always create more challenging drills for them to develop even faster!

Teams are coached by passionate parent volunteers who receive professional training from our expert staff as well as a coaching handbook full of optional games, drills and warm-up exercises. This ensures they have the right tools to teach fundamental skills while fostering a positive, competitive atmosphere for the kids.  Players and coaches can atend the weekly technical skill sessions to learn additional ways to develop and practice more technical aspects of the game.

While the Community League accepts all levels of players, the GAMMA Travel team requires an Intermediate to high level of positional skills because the focus is less on fundamental training and more on strategic gameplay.  Both groups are coached by passionate parent volunteers.  Community League competes against other league teams while GAMMA travels regionally to compete against other club teams. At GAMMA, we provide high-performance training and competitive play without the exorbitant costs and heavy travel commitments of traditional club teams. Because of additioonal practice times, strength training coaches, travel clothing and gear, branded uniforms and tournament fees, the GAMMA program is considerably more expensive than the Community League registration fees, but still less expensive than traditional club programs.  Our model focuses on community-based development, making quality volleyball accessible to more families.

Each situation will be treated uniquely because it is important to us to make sure that each player is placed where thay can be the most successful while being appropriately challenged.  While the Community League has built-in age groups and limited cross-over, the GAMMA travel teams can accept positional advancement if appropriate (eg. U14 team has 3 setters while U15 team only has 1 setter...a chance to play at the higher age level could be offered to a 
U14 setter in this situation.)

Teams and schedules are allocated once registration has ended and prior to the start of the season.  Practices are typically held twice a week in the evenings at local community gyms to accommodate working parents. There is also a weekly technical training clinic put on by professionally trained coashes to help develop technical skills for athlete and new drills for coaches.  Games are played at the end of each practice session, with schedules released at the start of the season, with playoff matches usually taking place during the last week of the season.

For the GAMMA Travel teams, additional tournaments are booked at the beginning of the season and placed onto the schedule as soon as they are finalized.

The Community League ages are based on what your child's ages will be during the duration of the season.  This allows athletes to move up to the next age group the following season.  The GAMMA Travel teams fall under the Volleyball Alberta rules and guidelines and therefor it is based on the athletes age as of September 1st of the previous year.  If Hailee is 14 years old as of September 1st, she could play under the U15 (or U16 - see above for levelling up)) girls team for the following Dec - May club season.