TAV Houston Beach Volleyball
2021 Spring Beach Volleyball Program
The TAV Houston Beach program is specifically designed to cater to all types of volleyball players: Players only interested in indoor, indoor players that are interested in beach and also players that have decided to pursue playing beach in College - the fastest growing NCAA sport in the country. Beach volleyball is a great way to improve stability and strengthen core muscle groups that not only improve speed and your vertical but also help with injury prevention.
All practices will be energetic, highly focused on game play and extremely rewarding. Players will learn the rules of beach as well as strategies that will help players be successful.
The improvements to our indoor athletes games are endless! Some of the benefits include:
- Reduced risk of injury
- Improved court awareness
- More touches on the ball, which leads to more situational volleyball understanding.
- Increase vertical
- Increase agility, speed, quickness and flexibility
- Scholarship opportunities
All practices will be energetic, highly focused on game play and extremely rewarding. Players will learn the rules of beach as well as strategies that will help players be successful.
Players have a choice between Mon/Wed or Tue/Wed practice days.
The beach training schedule is as follows:
Monday 5:30 -7 (Skills Focus)
7 - 7:30 (Jump Training)
Tuesday 5:30 -7 (Skills Focus)
7 - 7:30 (Jump Training)
Wednesday 5:30 -7 (Tourney Style Play)
7 - 7:30 (Jump Training)
We have included jump training at the end of all of our sessions to improve our athletes verticals and agility. On Wednesdays, we will focus on competitive games and game strategy. We also have private lessons available and for our elite beach athletes, training for college, will have open courts available for competitive game play.
Competitive Beach Volleyball Training
Beach volleyball is the fastest growing D1 sport in the United States! Over 90 colleges offer scholarships for beach athletes and that number is only growing every year. College beach is in season during the spring/summer and provides opportunities for awesome traveling.
Why should I consider playing beach volleyball?
- Have you ever had a coach tell you “ You are too short to play indoor volleyball”… guess what?! You are NOT TOO SHORT for beach volleyball! Misty May Treanor won the olympics being 5’8” tall!
- Beach volleyball improves your indoor game tremendously as you get double the number of touches, improve your agility, understand the game better and find the open spots on the court. Also, improves your reaction time, speed, defense, and court awareness.
- The sport is very forgiving on your joints and bones.
- Opportunities in the state and surrounding states to earn scholarships and compete in many tournaments.
- Build your own tournament schedule!! Unlike indoor with set tournaments, you can compete in as many or as few tournaments as you would like.
- Let’s not forget the cool tank top tan lines!
TAV Houston Beach Coaching Staff
Coach Tara Jenkins
Over 12 years of playing experience and competing in indoor club volleyball. 5 years of beach volleyball experience. Won GJNC in 2011. Qualified for nationals every year except for two. Third at Beach Nationals in 2011. MVP setter for the District in high school. All-Star Tournament MVP 2015. Recruited as a setter to play D1 indoor and beach volleyball at University of Louisiana Monroe. Competed in the Sunbelt conference for four years indoor and two years of beach volleyball. Coached beach and developmental programs at TAV Houston for the past 4 years. Coached 14 Black last year with Luis and 13 Black this year with Bill Jenkins.
NextLevel Club Beach
NextLevel Club Beach is designed for the series beach volleyball player and will be offered in three different sessions: 1) Strength, Conditioning & Development (Sept-Dec), 2) Pre-season Prep (Jan-Apr) and 3) Tourney Season (May-Aug). Practice sessions will have no more than three total teams (6 players) for every one coach. Practices will be energetic, highly focused on game play and extremely rewarding. Coaches will also travel to sand tournaments. TAV will set the schedules and cover the direct costs included with the local tournaments. In addition to this, there will be open court time for this group so the players can get some extra work in if so desired. All coaches will be highly trained with significant beach experience.
TAV Beach Training Series
This program is great for any type of volleyball player: the indoor only player, the beach only player or the hybrid indoor/ beach player. This program is an introductory program for players that may be interested in beach, or for indoor players that want a fun way to decrease their risk of sports injury and increase their verticals for the indoor season. There will be coaches at a 1:8 coach to player ratio running drills and facilitating a practice plan.