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Asics Presents The Adam Johnson Beach Volleyball Clinic Series!

“The NCAA Approves Sand Volleyball as a Collegiate Sport for Women!!!”

Beach Volleyball has made its way to Austin in a big way! Five Time US Open Champion, World Champion, King of the Beach Champion and the 11th Ranked Player in the history of the Association of Volleyball Professional Tour (AVP), Adam Johnson brings his life long experience and talent to the sand courts of Aussie’s, here in Austin. He will be conducting beach clinics for Middle and High School girls.

Adam, along with many other Top Professionals (Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh), believes playing beach volleyball has a tremendous impact on a player’s indoor game. “When I was finished with my indoor career (NCAA Division One - USC, the USA National Team and Professional Volleyball in Italy), I began my career on the AVP TOUR (www.avp.com). At the end of my first beach season, I again played in a professional indoor league and was amazed to see how the level of my indoor game had improved. I was moving quicker, my body was stronger, my ball control had improved and I could navigate the court much easier”.

Beach Volleyball is an entirely different game from indoor. That’s what’s great about the sport. It gives the girls a new and refreshed way to train so they don’t feel like they’re playing indoor volleyball year round (please see the “Professionals’ Quotes”).

The benefits from this cross training are unmatched.
The clinics will be open to all players and they will be grouped according to their skill level. Adam, along with other Austin area coaches, will touch upon skills passing, setting, serving, hitting and defense), footwork and strategies of the game in a very upbeat and productive environment. The athletes will also receive a clinic shirt, lunch after each clinic, gifts and other prizes.

THESE CLINICS WILL FILL UP FAST.
*Space will be limited (20-24 total for each clinic). Private lessons are available as well.
For more information please contact Adam Johnson at office (512) 386-1755 or cell (512) 786-2605.

MIddle School Girls SIGN UP TODAY! space is limited!
High School Girls SIGN UP TODAY! space is limited!

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"NCAA Approves Sand Volleyball as a Collegiate
Sport for Women".

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 21, 2009) - The NCAA Division I Legislative Council added sand volleyball to the list of emerging sports for women, it was announced today, clearing the way for schools to use the sport toward minimum sponsorship requirements and minimum financial aid awards. NCAA Division II had already voted to add sand volleyball to the emerging sports list at the 2009 NCAA Convention in January.

“The opportunity to play sand volleyball in the spring will spur growth in the sport. I wish I had that opportunity when I was at Stanford!” said 2008 Olympic Beach Gold Medalist, Kerri Walsh. “Additionally, this development will give more women an opportunity for a professional volleyball career in the United States."

Capitalizing on the recent success of USA Volleyball’s beach teams in the Olympics and the growth in grassroots programs, the NCAA’s Committee on Women’s Athletics made the recommendation to add the sport to the emerging sports list last summer.

"The United States has a proud and successful history in sand volleyball, having won at least one gold medal in every Summer Games since the discipline was added to the Olympic program in 1996,” said USAV CEO Doug Beal. “This move by the NCAA is wonderful, particularly in light of the increased varsity athletic opportunities for young women at the collegiate level and the synergy with already existing USA Volleyball programs.”

The NCAA will call the new sport “sand” volleyball, rather than “beach” volleyball, in hopes that the sport will have broad appeal across the country and not be confined to coastal areas. Already schools including The University of Texas, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Utah are competing in collegiate competitions in the spring.

“The addition of sand volleyball to the list of collegiate options is significant for our sport,” said Kathy DeBoer, Executive Director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association. “With more than 400,000 girls playing high school volleyball, we welcome the addition of collegiate roster spots.”

The group most responsible for spreading the popularity of the sport beyond the California coast is the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) which hosts a series of competitions on man-made courts at in-land locations like Cincinnati, Ohio, Atlanta, Ga., and Las Vegas, Nev. The AVP also sponsors a series of indoor sand competitions in January and February called “Hot Winter Nights” in cold-weather cities like Omaha, Ne. and Grand Rapids, Mich.

“We are thrilled that the NCAA has voted to make sand volleyball a collegiate sport,” said Jason Hodell, CEO of AVP Pro Beach Volleyball. “The vote confirms the momentum behind the sport of beach volleyball, and we are excited to help grow our sport on the college level and create new beach volleyball stars around the country.”

The NCAA will spend the next year developing the rules that will govern sand volleyball as a collegiate sport, including regulations on financial aid, playing dates and recruiting. Institutions will be able to sponsor varsity programs starting in the 2010-2011 academic year.

www.AVCA.org

Sand Volleyball to Remain on Emerging Sports
List in NCAA Division I

ATLANTA - An attempt to override the April decision by the Division I Legislative Council and Board of Directors to add sand volleyball to the Emerging Sports List for women in NCAA Division I has been defeated. The school-by-school vote took place Friday, January 15 at the Division I Business Session during the 2010 NCAA Convention in Atlanta. A majority of 62.5% of voting delegates was needed to override the previous decision. The final vote was 166, or 58.45% in favor of the override to 118 against it, with one school abstaining, meaning that sand volleyball will remain on the Emerging Sports List in Division I.

"The length and tone of the debate over sand volleyball in Division I means we have much work to do," said AVCA Executive Director Kathy DeBoer. "While we are thrilled about the new opportunities for women that will be created by this sport, we are also mindful that the legislative parameters for governance of this sport still need careful deliberation."

With sand volleyball now affirmed as an Emerging Sport for women, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors will decide Saturday whether to grant a request from the AVCA to delay the implementation date for program sponsorship from August 1, 2010 to August 1, 2011.

To date, only the University of Southern California has announced that they will add a sand volleyball program if the override failed; however, it is anticipated that several other institutions will make that announcement now that the vote is definitive. For an Emerging Sport to be considered for an NCAA Championship, forty schools must add programs with in a ten-year period.

NCAA Division II will vote in their Business Session on Saturday, January 16 on legislative parameters to govern sand volleyball as an emerging sport in their division. Regulations allowing 16 dates of competition and five equivalency scholarships are expected to be passed by the membership. Division II would institute sand volleyball as a sport on August 1, 2010, the original timetable recommended by the Committee on Women's Athletics in July 2008.