USA Volleyball 2008 - Girls’ HP Training Camps

The USA Volleyball High Performance Training Camps are OPEN to athletes born in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 or later. The HP Training Camp is for athletes not ready to train at our Development camp level or for Athletes that did not attend a USA Volleyball National High Performance Tryout, yet want to train under the guidance of a USA Volleyball High Performance.

USA Volleyball has entered into an affiliation with American Athlete, Inc. for the administration and execution of the High Performance Training Camps. American Athlete is a company devoted to quality volleyball camps and clinics throughout the United States. USA Volleyball High Performance works closely with American Athlete to ensure structure and programming is consistent for all High Performance camps.

The Girls’ HP Development Program is a very important step in our USA Pipeline. It serves a number of important purposes:

It brings top coaches to players in a concentrated training environment that promotes learning and skill acquisition.
The selected nature of the program ensures similar skill levels, allowing the players to progress, and the camp to move forward.
It bridges the geographical gaps among different players, clubs and playing styles from across the country, providing depth and richness to the learning experience.
It allows the athletes to experience the volume and style of training and practice that will be expected from them should they play volleyball at the collegiate or National HP level.
It allows players to demonstrate their ability to learn and improve within a short training period (this is a very important ability for HP and collegiate programs).
It provides participants with a standard and measure of how they need to improve, and where they need to get to, to progress to the next level.
Coach to athlete ratio is 1:8.

An important goal of our Girls’ HP Training Program is to give these athletes the very same level of training and expectations that we give to athletes in our National-level and A2 programs. Each of our Head Coaches, and many of our assistant coaches, have played prominent roles in the development, progress and success of our National High Performance Program. This year, we have eight Girls’ HP Training Camps available. Those camp dates are:

City	Dates	Accepted Number of Participants	Camp Site
Gunnison, Colo.	July 5-8	36	Western State College
Indiana, Pa.	July 6-9	36	Indiana University of Pennsylania
Joplin, Mo.	July 7-10	54	Missouri Southern State College
Quincy, Ill.	July 14-17	36	Quincy University
Kalamazoo, Mich.	July 16-19	36	Kalamazoo College
Fort Wayne, Ind.	July 16-19	18	University of St. Francis
Davidson, N.C.	July 18-21	54	Davidson College
Lakewood, N.J.	July 26-29	36	Georgian Court College

Spots in these camps are allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Space is limited by positional requirements and will fill quickly! Once camp locations are full, a waiting list will be available.

Cost of the USA Volleyball Girls’ HPT Camp program will be $495. This includes room, board and local ground transportation (does not include transportation to/from the camp). All athletes that fly to a camp location will be transported to camp by USAV Camp staff.

Registration - USA Volleyball will be using an online registration and payment system this year. To register, click here.

Note: Once you are accepted you will receive the necessary forms and paperwork required for your participation in this program- including specific travel requirements and other logistical information requests.

DO NOT book air reservations until you have received an email confirmation. Again, congratulations on your selection and thank you for supporting USA Volleyball.

Questions concerning the HPT Camps should be directed to Mary Wright at (mwright@theamericanathlete.net) or (269) 342-0029.