Valley Forge Girls Volleyball Club: Welcome

Valley Forge is the longest standing junior girls club in the Philadelphia area, dating to its inception in 1993.  Traditionally our teams have been at the top of the Keystone Region, winning numerous Regional Championships and Bids to Nationals.  We believe that our coaching staff is unmatched among those in the area.  Each of our teams has at least two, and normally three coaches assigned to them to enable more teaching and more personal attention given to team members.  Many alumnae of Valley Forge have gone on to play volleyball in college at all levels of play, in Divisions One, Two and Three, some on full or partial scholarships, and others simply to continue playing the sport they grew to love in grade school and high school.  We believe that Valley Forge offers the best situation that offers excellence in play, opportunity for personal improvement and development, and for preserving a balance to enable team members to pursue other interests in their lives.

Our primary goal is to offer female junior volleyball players a positive, enriching experience in an environment that promotes individual excellence in balance with a sense of teamwork, unselfishness, mutual respect, and cooperation with others.  We expect all team members, parents and coaches to participate in such a manner.

For the 2009-10 season, Valley Forge is adopting an academy style approach to a portion of practice time whereby players will be trained by a cadre of coaches specializing in various sets of individual skills and techniques, positional play and conditioning.  Depending on the age groups up to 50% of practice time in the first half of the season will be skills-based.  Players will be taught uniform methods in areas such as hitting and hitting footwork, blocking and blocking footwork, setting, passing, team defense, serving, etc.  Emphasis will be placed on teaching the right techniques and skills to younger players, while refining and adjusting those of more advanced ones.  Team coaches will also work within the skills cadres to assure the transfer of the skills and techniques to team practice sessions.  We believe this approach will enable all of our players to obtain the best collective knowledge from our entire club coaching staff, and enable them to develop basic skills and fundamentals needed to assure their growth as players.

Congratulations to the Bishop Shanahan Girls Volleyball Team and Head Coach Greg Ashman for winning the 2009 Pennsylvania AAA State Championship.

Congratulations to Coach Joe Kulp, Valley Forge members Taylor Kulp, Colleen Kozacheck, Jackie Furia, Erin McCarney and Emily Smith and the entire team at Ss. Simon and Jude for winning the 2009 Philadelphia Archdiocese Championship.

Valley Forge is the longest standing junior girls club in the Philadelphia area, dating to its inception in 1993.  Traditionally our teams have been at the top of the Keystone Region, winning numerous Regional Championships and Bids to Nationals.  We believe that our coaching staff is unmatched among those in the area.  Each of our teams has at least two, and normally three coaches assigned to them to enable more teaching and more personal attention given to team members.  Many alumnae of Valley Forge have gone on to play volleyball in college at all levels of play, in Divisions One, Two and Three, some on full or partial scholarships, and others simply to continue playing the sport they grew to love in grade school and high school.  We believe that Valley Forge offers the best situation that offers excellence in play, opportunity for personal improvement and development, and for preserving a balance to enable team members to pursue other interests in their lives.

Our primary goal is to offer female junior volleyball players a positive, enriching experience in an environment that promotes individual excellence in balance with a sense of teamwork, unselfishness, mutual respect, and cooperation with others.  We expect all team members, parents and coaches to participate in such a manner.

For the 2009-10 season, Valley Forge is adopting an academy style approach to a portion of practice time whereby players will be trained by a cadre of coaches specializing in various sets of individual skills and techniques, positional play and conditioning.  Depending on the age groups up to 50% of practice time in the first half of the season will be skills-based.  Players will be taught uniform methods in areas such as hitting and hitting footwork, blocking and blocking footwork, setting, passing, team defense, serving, etc.  Emphasis will be placed on teaching the right techniques and skills to younger players, while refining and adjusting those of more advanced ones.  Team coaches will also work within the skills cadres to assure the transfer of the skills and techniques to team practice sessions.  We believe this approach will enable all of our players to obtain the best collective knowledge from our entire club coaching staff, and enable them to develop basic skills and fundamentals needed to assure their growth as players.

2010 Planned Tournaments