CEVA MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2020

WHAT’S NEWCOLLEGE COMMITMENTS

Check out the inCheck out the interactive college map that we have added to our College Players page on our website. This year we had 98 seniors sign to play collegiate volleyball out of 295 of our seniors (33%). To see the list of the 2020 signed seniors and other signed seniors, head to cevaregion.org.

If If we have missed anyone, please let us know at region@cevaregion.org.

Quick overview for families as they sign up for their USAV Membership through SportsEngine – Memberships for the 2020-2021 Season are now available on our website! Use the direct links to purchase your membership for this season. Please make sure to read the descriptions before purchasing.

New this season for membeNew this season for membership, parents can have households under one account. The parents will make their account (no cost) then purchase membership for their kids under that account. One family, one password! We have provided information about how to select a club, households, membership cards, eligibility, and how the ref/score training will work. Please check out the SportsEngine section of our website for all that we know about these topics.

#VTC FUNDRAISING TOURNAMENT - GRASS DOUBLES - 9/27 IN SALEM.

Register at www.cevaregion.org.

LEAGUE MEMBERSHIPS

Fall League Memberships are available now for just $15.00. Good through December 31st. Clubs that haClubs that have a facility to use have been hosting fall leagues and this membership is perfect for that (if you played last club season, those memberships are still good until October 31st, 2021).

USAV SWAG

Be suBe sure to check out some of new products including masks, socks, etc. USA Volleyball’s adidas licensed gear will be added soon. Periodic updates, including new assets for new product releases, upcoming prpromotions and special offers coming soon.

Visit cevaregion.org for access.

CEVA MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2020

BLOG POST BY KATHY DEBOER - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - AMERICAN VOLLEYBALL COACHES ASSOC.

I participated in my first protest march about race as a 12-year-old. My mother took my older sister and me to downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan to march with others after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in April of 1968. I do not share this to claim racial bona fides, as I am quite sure I did not want to go. I was a hardcore tomboy, i.e. vulnerability was out, and I wanted no part of mingling with a group of crying adults.The killing The killing of Breonna Taylor in her home, Ahmaud Arbery while jogging, and George Floyd by asphyxiation have laid bare a truth that (B)lack people live every day and white people choose to ignore: racial injustice is still a daily fact of life in our country, even 50 years later.This national trauma has opened a space in which many of our (B)lack coaches and athletes have shared their stories about insults, inequities, and prejudice in their experience of our sport. The brutality of the killings, the protests, and the pandemic combined to create a situation where we cannot look we cannot look away, when that has been our default mode.

LetLet’s face it, most (B)lack volleyball players are from middle and upper-class homes, as financial resources are critical to access the training and exposure in our sport; my local (B)lack friends and AVCA work teammates are all college graduates, many with advanced degrees; Sharon Clark, our (B)lack president and Nickie Sanlin, the diversity representative on our board, have shared how their lives are more privileged than those of their parents.Our socio-economic similaOur socio-economic similarities made it convenient to assume our (B)lack colleagues and players had more in common with white people than (B)lack people. Their willingness to share their fear and pain with us have laid bare the ignorance of that assumption.

What will we do with this awareness?WWe can vote, we can advocate for police reform, we can #BlackLivesMatter, we can give to racial justice causes, and we should do these things, but how will we change the way a (B)lack coach and (B)lack athletes experience volleyball? Can the honest conversations continue once our grief and rage are spent, once we hit the recruiting trail, once our players return to campus and our focus turns to winning volleyball matches? I do not have ready-made answers and will need you, both (B)lack and white colleagues, to turn awareness into action. One thing is certain: this is a white problem and we must own it to solve it.

A reminder to register to vote and to encourage your players, parents and coaches to register to vote. Information on registering to vote in both Oregon and Washington can be found on our can be found on our website at www.cevaregion.org/vote

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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

CEVA MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2020

Club directors, check out the promotional deals that our Baden partners have going to get you ready for the season.

More info at www.badensports.com.

CEVA IN THE COMMUNITYA team of CEVA officials have made face masks for sale - all proceeds go to the CEVA #VTC Scholarship Fund. More info on

our website.

CCEVA Board Member Carrie Kreidler has spent the last week assisting at donation centers in the Eugene/Springfield area to assist evacuees from wildfires.

CCEVA will be making a donation to multiple local relief funds to assist wildfire evacuees throughout our region.

TRYOUT DATES DECEMBER 5 - 16s/18sDECEMBER 12 - 12s/14s