Alamo Volleyball Association was founded in 1983 to give high school athletes who were interested in playing at the college level an opportunity to excel and to receive exposure for their volleyball skills. Over the years, Alamo has emerged as the premier junior volleyball program in South Texas and is regarded as a model for emerging clubs throughout the state. Along with developing volleyball talent, our program stresses the importance of personal discipline, leadership, organizational skills, and character building. Alamo players participate in USA Volleyball junior competition at the state and national level. This competition has resulted in Alamo Volleyball teams being selected to participate in the USA Volleyball Junior National Championships every year since Alamo was founded. Over 98% of our graduating seniors have gone on to play volleyball at the collegiate level. Alamo develops volleyball players at all levels - whether a player wants to participate in order to improve her chances of playing for her high school team, or whether she just wants to play for the love of the game.

1997 USAV JO National "Club" Champions - 16 Black


1999 USAV JO National "Club" Champions - 18 Black
 

2003 USAV JO National "Open" Champions - 15 Kaepa (1st National Champion in the "Open" level in Texas)


Practice Times and Locations 
Practice starts the first week of December. Teams generally practice twice a week, usually on a Sunday afternoon and one weekday evening for about two hours each session. We use the gyms at Antonian High School, Incarnate Word High School and Factory of Champions as practice sites. Players are mailed a practice schedule before the first of each month, telling where and when practices will be held for that month. 
Position Training Program 
We will be providing our very successful Position Training Clinics again this season. This involves an additional group of our elite coaches attending age group practices throughout the season to work with players on their individual positions – setting, hitting, defense, etc.
Tournament Information 
Tournaments are scheduled approximately twice a month, starting in January. They are usually one day events held on a Saturday, sometime running all day and into the evening. Most of our tournaments are held in the San Antonio and Austin area, but a few are in Houston and Dallas.
Some out of town tournaments require overnight stay. We feel that having the team stay together on overnight trips builds team camaraderie, so we do require that the players stay together on these occasions.
Each team has a chaperone to help the coach and for the 15-year-olds and younger, we have a mom stay in each room. Alamo pays for hotel rooms for players for these out of town tournaments. This cost is included in the membership fees.
Team Classifications 
We have two basic classifications of teams – our Regular teams and our National teams.
Regular teams play in tournaments held within the state. Their season runs from the first of December through the Regional Championships that are usually held the first weekend in May. National teams are nationally competitive teams and travel to tournaments out of state at least once during the season. National teams play an extended season that lasts through the USAV Junior National Championships at the end of June.
Program Fees
Please note that our fees cover ALL expenses of Alamo’s program - membership fees to USA Volleyball, tournament entry fees, gym rent, coach’s salaries, uniform expense, lodging at out of town tournaments; everything is included except for food and spending money at tournaments.
National teams pay the same basic fees as regular teams, plus the expenses of their extended season, and the expenses of attending the national tournaments on their schedule. This includes airfare, hotels, van rentals, tournament entry fees. Our fee schedule for the season can be found on this website.
Team Try-Outs 
There are limits to the number of players we can accommodate, so we do have to have a try-out process for selecting teams. During these tryouts players’ volleyball skills and general athletic abilities are assessed.
Any Alamo team you are selected for will be a very strong team with a coach committed to individual player development. You will find that Alamo teams consistently finish very high in tournament play.
Exact dates and locations for tryouts can be found on this website.
At the end of each age group’s tryouts a list is posted of players and the teams they have made. Players must come prepared to make a decision to accept an invitation to participate with Alamo at that time. The initial, non-refundable payment is due at this time and represents a player's commitment to play for Alamo. 
Players who accept our invitation to participate will need to stay after tryouts to fill out USAV forms and turn in their first payment. There are several forms that require parent signatures; so one parent must accompany the player to the last day of tryouts.
Occasionally a player will decide not to participate with our program. In that case, we will call the next person on the list to offer them a position on a team.
Player Age Rules 
There are some strict USA Volleyball rules concerning age limits. Age groups are defined by the player’s age on September 1. For example, if you are playing on a 14-year-old team this season, you cannot turn 15 before September 1, 2007 We occasionally get request from players who want to play in an older age group. Our policy is that you need to try out with your age group. Individuals are rarely moved to a higher age group. We feel that it is generally better for a good athlete to stay in their age group and be competitive on a national level than to play in a higher age group and have limited success.
Commitment to the Alamo Program 
Alamo is looking for athletes who are willing to commit fully to its program. Before you decide to try out for Alamo, you must decide if you are willing to make the commitment involved.
We expect all team members to attend every practice and every tournament. We believe that learning to plan and budget your time is one of the benefits of athletic training. The only excused absence from practice or tournaments would be illness or a school sponsored event.
Studies and schoolwork certainly come first; but you will know your practice schedule in advance, so we expect players to plan their study and homework time around their practice schedule.
Volleyball is a team sport and like any team effort, the success of the team as a whole depends on the individual members. Your tournament schedule for the year is distributed at the first of the season and your teammates expect you to plan any other extracurricular activities around this competition schedule.
Once you participate with any USAV volleyball organization, you are committed by USA Volleyball to that organization and cannot change clubs during the season, so choose wisely.
We hope you will choose Alamo!