Interested in playing NIVA?  Players interested in playing our 2019-2020 season should follow these steps to play:

1.  Read the info below on our different divisions and decide if you want to play full travel, limited travel or non-travel. (Also check out the side tabs for each division to find out more and our FAQ page for answers to most of your questions)

2.  Attend the informational meeting for your division.  Travel and HS club are set by NIVA directors but each feeder (non-travel) runs their own meeting and tryouts so as soon as they communicate those dates to us, we will post them on this website and our social media.  We usually start posting the info in October (nothing happens before October so please be patient as we wait for the info to come into us from the different coaches)

3.  Attend the team tryouts.  Dates/times are posted as soon as schools communicate those to us.  Tryouts are usually end of October or November for most programs.

4.  Once teams are made, you will receive communication about practices!

Welcome to the NIVA website.  We are a volleyball club designed to train girls (and now boys) in the sport from 3rd-12th grade.  

Girls have multiple options/levels of play.  Here are the main bullet points but please read below  for a more detailed description of all our levels.  You can also check out our FAQ page for answers to many common questions.

• (NON-TRAVEL) Club or Feeder Teams: for 3rd-8th graders and they play for a "feeder program" that is run by their future high school coach (or someone involved in their future high school's program)
  CLICK HERE for the feeder team home page
• (NON-TRAVEL) High School Club: for 9th-12th graders that do not want to play travel
  CLICK HERE for the High School Club page
• Limited Travel: for players from 3rd-12th grade that want to play travel tournaments but their season is done by spring break
  CLICK HERE for the Travel page
• Full Travel: for players in 7th-12th grade that want to play travel tournaments and attend Nationals at the end of the season (June/July)

Details on the different divisions of NIVA:

1.  Feeder teams (aka non-travel or club level teams)
Girls in 3rd-8th grade that do not want to travel play on our feeder teams.  These are set up so that each high school coach runs their own program under the NIVA umbrella.  Girls will play for the feeder program of the eventual high school they will attend.

The feeder head (usually the high school coach) picks the coaches, practice schedules and type of training.  

These teams practice 1x per week (sometimes 2 if your coaches have the time and gym space).  They then play 6 local tournaments on Sundays from January-March (dates and info CLICK HERE).  These tournaments are held at area schools...Northridge, Elkhart Memorial, Elkhart Central, Goshen, etc.

Each feeder program sets their own informational meeting dates and tryout dates.  As soon as we get those from the high school coaches, we will post them under the each feeder teams tab on this website and on facebook.  You will only want to attend the meetings/tryouts for your own feeder program/future high school!

Any players that will go to a high school that does not have a high school coach involved will play for our Independent Feeder (Penn, Mishawaka, Catholic schools, South Bend schools, etc.).  We have coaches from all of those schools involved, just not one high school runs the division so we combine the players on teams.

2.  High School Club
Girls in 9th-12th grade that want to play non-travel play in this division.  Once in high school, girls are NOT allowed to play for their own high school coaches or with more than 3 players from their high school team on a club team.  We have this division to combine players and create teams.

These teams practice 1x a week...on Sundays only when they don't play (so we don't interfere with other activities/sports).  They play 6 local Sundays from January-March (dates under the power league tab).
Click HERE to see more information, including tryout dates and the information meeting!

3.  Travel/Limited Travel 
This program is for girls and families that want to compete at an elite level and dedicate more time (and money) to the sport.  Players looking to play in college usually choose this division for the level of coaching and competition as well as the exposure to college coaches.

Girls on these teams practice 3x a week at various schools (usually in Penn and Elkhart district schools).  

Each team picks their own schedule at their first team meeting but you can plan on 2 out of town tournaments a month.  These usually require hotel stays Friday and Saturday evening.  We do have group blocks for hotels but families are allowed to stay wherever they want at these tournaments...with family, other hotels, etc.  We do NOT require the girls stay together.  Families are responsible for the cost of getting there, hotel and food at the tournament on their own.

Limited travel teams start in December and run through the week before spring break.

Full travel teams start in December and run through the end of June, with the final tournament being nationals in Orlando, FL.

For information on travel programs, including registration, meeting days/times and tryouts, click HERE