2025-26 Planning

Planning for 2025-26

We’d like to hear your views on the following plans and options…

Summer 2025 (May to August)

Weekly outdoor play for fun at Lydiard Park Events Field:

• Mondays 6:45pm or 7pm as daylight lengthens.  Starting mid-May?
• For members age 15+ (our junior coaches need a break!).
• Invite potential new players from our waiting lists?
• We need a volunteer to judge weather and safety each week, and communicate go/no-go with players.

Monthly play for fun for juniors age 9-15 at Lydiard Park?  There is demand, but we’ll need supervisors/coaches.

Outdoor competitions: members self-organise to participate, eg Wilts; Whitefield (Bristol); Salisbury; others.

Indoor taster session(s) for new players on our waiting lists?

Indoor Season 2025/26 (September to April)

Women (Year 11+)

Train: Thursdays 8:15pm – 10pm.  Whole hall, 2 courts, max capacity c25 players, requires 2+ coaches.

Enter competitions, depending on player availability:

• SW League; Wilts Ladies & Junior League; Bristol junior events; Volleyball England Junior Grand Prix.
• Possible Wiltshire Mavericks women’s team to bring together top players from Wilts clubs to play SW League?  May affect our club’s ability to recruit, develop and retain players for SW League?

Open/Men (Year 11+)

Train: Sundays 6:15-8pm.  One court (end of hall not available): max capacity 20 players, ideally 2 coaches.

Enter competitions, depending on player availability:

• Wilts Open League (2 teams); Dave Kinder Cup (2 teams); Bristol and Volleyball England Junior events.
• All league players are responsible for taking their turn to officiate at games.
• A-team play home games on Thursdays, B-team on Sundays.

Juniors U12-U15

Train Sundays 4:30-6:00pm.  Whole hall, long net, max capacity c32 players, requires 4 coaches per session.

Enter competitions, depending on player availability:

• South West JuVoTo (3v3) competition: U12, U13, U14, U15 (Saturdays).
• Possibly Volleyball England U14 (4v4).
• Play 6v6 when ready (usually U15s): Bristol and Volleyball England junior events; Wilts Ladies & Juniors.
• Host national and regional junior age-group events when possible.

Capacity management

Club Coach will consult team coaches about standards, team needs and capacities:

1. Existing members have priority: invite them first to sign up for next season, including Year 10 graduating to adult sessions, so we know how many leavers and vacancies we have.
2. Fill any remaining vacancies by inviting players from waiting lists.
3. Maintain waiting lists as necessary.

Perhaps explore option of running an additional adult casual volleyball session for non-competitive players and those on waiting lists, subject to availability of hall (Friday evenings?) and volunteer supervisors?