Memberships
It is important that your membership is current, whatever role you take. If you are currently volunteering, playing or training anywhere in Tasmania, it is now time to register for 2025: https://www.volleyballtasmania.com.au/registration
Rachel Kitson Board Resignation
From the "VTas board update" news item published Thursday 10 April 2025:
Greetings all members and interested persons,
We wish to advise that President Rachel has stepped down from the board of Volleyball Tasmania, following 5 years as director under the constitutional structure adopted in 2020.
We would like to thank Rachel, both as a board and on behalf of the Tasmanian volleyball community, for her dedication and devotion to volleyball, a sport she continues to be passionate about. A community focus on engagement was clearly one of Rachel's goals; something all volleyball cohorts will benefit from promoting into the future.
On behalf of the Tasmanian volleyball family, we wish Rachel all the very best in future endeavours and hope to see her at an event sometime soon.
Steve, Emilie, Scott (VTas Board of Directors)
Annual General Meeting
The Volleyball Tasmania AGM will be held on Saturday 31 May 2025 with time and location to be announced soon. If you are interested in attending or would like to enquire about becoming a Board Member, reach out to your Club who, as organisations, are our Voting members.
WWVP Changes in Tasmania
From 1 April 2025, new Working with Vulnerable People Regulations come into effect meaning:
- workers and volunteers who used the 7-day exemption will need to apply for RWVP
- organisations will no longer need to track the number of days a person is volunteering in a regulated activity while registered.
You can find out more information on these changes and what they mean for our volleyball sector in the RWVP Expansion Fact Sheet.
Junior State Trials
Good luck to everyone trialling for our U19, U21 and U23 Australian Junior Volleyball Championship squads. These trials are taking place at Elizabeth College this Sunday 13 April 2025 at the following times:
Male: 10:30am - 12pm
Female: 4pm - 5:30pm
We wish you all the best!
Open Training
Check in with your local club or association to see if there's an open volleyball session you can join.
Open training in Hobart has kicked off in 2025 at the new time of 12pm - 1:30pm most Saturdays at Elizabeth College. This training is open to all experience levels and costs just $5 per person per session.
Make sure you are following our Tasmanian Volleyball Community Facebook page for updates on this training as whether it is on or cancelled will be posted each week.
Junior Jump Day Series
The Northern Tasmania Volleyball Association (NTVA) is hosting a Junior Jump Day Series, designed to give children aged 8-15yrs volleyball opportunities through the school holidays. The first session of the series takes place this school holidays, Saturday 12 April 2025. While this first session is today, there is still time to register and head along if you are keen!
Location: Launceston Christian School
Times:
12:00pm - 12:45pm: Ages 8 - 9
1:00pm - 1:45pm: Ages 10 - 12
2:00pm - 2:45pm: Ages 13 - 16
Tickets are required and you can grab yours here: https://events.humanitix.com/jump-into-volleyball
Southern School Volleyball
Our Southern Indoor Schools Cup for 2025 has been locked in for the following dates:
Tuesday 24th June 2025: Grades 7-8
Wednesday 25th June 2025: Grades 9-10
Dates have been sent to schools, so if you are a student in the south keep a look out or direct your teacher to the following event:
https://www.volleyballtasmania.com.au/events/291923
We are also looking for volunteers to help out on the day, so if you are free and happy to volunteer some time, please send an email to volleytas@gmail.com
Junior Development Program
Our Junior Development Program (JDP) is once again underway in 2025, in both Hobart and Launceston, and has seen positive attendance levels at all ages.
Our JDP is open to new athletes all year round so feel free to come along and try it out or bring some friends along if you are already attending. Sessions to start at are as follows:
- TVA Hobart (Gr 7-12) - Girls: Sundays 4pm - 5pm at Elizabeth College
- TVA Hobart (Gr 7-12) - Boys: Sundays 5pm - 6pm at Elizabeth College
- PASS Hobart (Gr 4-6) - Boys & Girls: Mondays 4pm - 5:15pm at Elizabeth College
- TVA & VSS Launceston (Gr 7-12) - Boys & Girls: Tuesdays 3:45pm - 5:15pm at Newstead College
If you are ready to register, you can do so via the following links:
Term 2 Junior Super League
We are aiming to host a Junior Super League in Term 2 catered to students from Grade 7 to Grade 10.
This roster will be held at Moonah Sports Centre on Mondays from 4-6pm, starting 28 April and end 30 June 2025.
Registrations are still open through the school holidays and you can sign up as a team or express interest as an individual and we will aim to allocate you to a team before the roster starts.
Please see more details at the registration page: https://www.volleyballtasmania.com.au/events/282853
We are also hoping to run another Junior Super League at Moonah in Term 4.
Echidnas
With the Echidnas squad EOIs recently closing, we wish all applicants the best of luck and look forward to another successful SEVC campaign in 2025!
Regional League News
Burnie:
BVA are currently advertising both a social and competitive roster, with a roster start date of Wednesday 30 April and registrations closing Wednesday 23 April 2025.
If you are interested as an individual or as a team, please register via the following form: BVA Registration
If you have any queries reach out to the association via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BVAPUBLIC
Devonport:
Devonport Social and A/B Grade rosters are currently underway. Fixtures and results can be found at the following links:
If you have any queries or wish to participate, reach out to DVA at volleyballdevonport@gmail.com
Launceston:
Launceston Men's and Women's A Grade rosters are currently underway. Fixtures and results can be found at the following links:
If you have any queries or wish to participate, reach out to NTVA at ntvasecretary@gmail.com
Hobart:
Hobart currently has their 2025 Autumn Southern League running with all relevant information located on the following page:
https://www.volleyballtasmania.com.au/play/southern-league/
The 2025 Autumn Social League is also underway with fixtures and results available at the following links:
For any queries about Southern League or our Social Leagues reach out to us at volleytas@gmail.com and we can direct you to the right people.
State League
The State League schedule has now been posted at https://www.volleyballtasmania.com.au/play/state-league/
The rounds are as follows:
- Round 1: South - 3/4 May - Moonah Sports Centre
- Round 2: North/West - 17/18 May - East Devonport Recreation Centre
- Round 3: South - 31 May and 1 June - Moonah Sports Centre
- Round 4: North/West - 21/22 June - Camp Banksia, Port Sorell
- Finals: Saturday, 28th June - Venue TBA
2025 Rules and regulations have not yet been posted but will be available at the link above.
Entries are due shortly, so talk to your club about how you can join in and we look forward to seeing everyone around the state!
Beach Volleyball
Local:
We had a very successful 2024-25 beach volleyball season and look forward to doing it all again next season. Congratulations to the hard-working beach crew for facilitating some "fun in the sun" including a couple of fantastic "come and try" events for local Councils.
The beach volleyball committee will also aim to get events and dates up even earlier this year so that plans can be made to participate in our comps and get friends along. As with last year a small survey has been opened up to gather any feedback members or participants may have:
Beach Volleyball 2024-25 Survey
Interstate/International:
The 2025 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships will be held in Adelaide from 14 - 23 November 2025 and tickets are now on sale. This huge event will also present opportunities for event staff and volunteers, so don't be afraid to put your hand up and reach out if you'd like more information.
Please head to the link below to purchase some tickets but you may need to move fast as this is an event host the best beach volleyball athletes in the world, so tickets are expected to sell quickly:
2025 BVWC Tickets
Other News
We just wanted to mention that we had very positive feedback from Clubs Tasmania about the uptake from Volleyball members at the recent Live Life Whole Presentations which focused on the "whole" female in sport. Thanks to everyone for your support in this space and for pushing these events around your Club space.
Volleyball Tasmania will continue to forward through all relevant workshops and presentations that come through to us and we hope that you can continue getting the word out there.
If you wish to have any items included in our newsletters or update posts, please email volleytas@gmail.com
