Last modified on 06-06-2008.
GEVA 2007-08 Season News
June 6, 2008
The 2008 GEVA Girls High Performance Program Youth Age Group Camp Invitation list has been posted. Click here for more information.
May 25, 2008
The 2008 GEVA Girls High Performance Program Select Age Group Camp Invitation list has been posted. Click here for more information on the camp and click here for the list of those who are invited.
May 12, 2008: AVP Brooklyn Open
The AVP Brooklyn Open is earlier this year due to the Beijing Olympics. It is taking place on Coney Island, July 18th-20th. The AVP Brooklyn Open offers you the opportunity to play on the same court as the top 150 Professional Volleyball Players in the world, like Olympic Gold Medalist Misty May and Kerry Walsh. Click here to get some court time with these players. Click here for purchasing individual tickets.
April 23, 2008
Congratulations to all of the participants in the Adult Regionals. The results are available at the Regionals Results page including photos of the champions and finalists.
April 14, 2008: Adult Regionals Pool Play Schedules
The schedules for the Adult Regionals being held on April 19 & April 20 are available on the Adult Regionals Info page. Click here to access the tournament pool play schedule that will be used during Regionals.
April 10, 2008: Sign-ups for GEVA Girls High Performance Camp Invitation Tryout Sessions are Open!
Sign-ups are now open for the GEVA Girls High Performance Camp Invitation Tryout sessions being conducted in May 2008. If you like you can attend all HP Tryout sessions for your age group. There are 3 HP age groups as follows: Girls National Future Select (born in 1996 and after), Girls National Select (born in 1994 and after), and Girls National Youth (born in 1992 and after). Click here to learn more and/or sign-up to attend one or more HP Camp Invitation Tryout sessions.
April 8, 2008: Adult Regionals Entries
Click here to see the entries that have been received for the 2008 GEVA Adult Regional Tournament. The eligilibility of the teams is being reviewed.
April 1, 2008: Sign-ups for GEVA Girls HP Program are Open!
Sign-ups are now open for the last of 3 GEVA Girls High Performance Program Pre-Tryout Evaluation on Saturday morning April 19, 2008 at the HPVBA in Lakewood, NJ. Click here to learn more and/or sign-up to attend. Please note that this is a change from the originally published date/time of Friday evening April 18.
March 17, 2008: ADULT REGIONALS
The Adult Regionals schedule has been posted. The adults tournament schedule has been updated to include the Regionals information. The updated schedule is dated 3/17/2008. NOTE: Always Refresh/Reload the schedule page to ensure that you have the latest schedule.
March 5, 2008
Commissioner Bob Dingee has appointed Anthony Rosania as the Men's B Board representative.
February 28, 2008
USA Volleyball asks you to "Vote for Karch!" Karch Kiraly has been nominated to the U.S. Olympic Committee Hall of Fame. Seventeen other individual athletes have also been nominated and only six will be inducted. The USOC has said it will choose the inductees based on popular vote. Click here and “Vote for Karch”. If you have questions, click here for contact information.
February 26, 2008
Sign-ups are now open for the GEVA Girls High Performance Program Pre-Tryout Evaluation on Friday evening March 14, 2008 at the Downstate Athletic Center. Click here to learn more and/or sign-up to attend.
February 17, 2008
The 2008 GEVA Girls High Performance program has started. The program will conduct the first Pre-Tryout Evaluation on February 23, 2008 at Queens College. Click here to learn more about the 2008 GEVA Girls HP program.
January 30, 2008
The entry guidelines for the Adult Nationals being held in Atlanta, Georgia have been posted. Click here to view the guidelines.
January 26, 2008
AVP Crocs Hot Winter Nights Tour is coming to the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton on Thursday, January 31st. Come watch the best professional beach volleyball players battle for prize money and the title of King and Queen of the Court. The show starts at 7:00 PM. Go to http://www.geva.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=46 for more information and for the discount code to use at http://avp.com.
December 29, 2007
Adults: Based upon the tournament results of the B & BB Seeding tournaments, the level assignments have been made. To see where the teams were placed, check the Team Rankings page. Going forward, all tournaments will be single level.
December 27, 2007
The remaining official's clinics have been scheduled for January and are available for registration. Please see the clinics page for details.
December 26, 2007
The Men’s National Team finished fourth the World Cup held in Japan. More information on the Men's National team can be found at http://usavolleyball.org/National/mnthome.asp.
December 23, 2007
The volleyball family has lost a good friend in Heinz Schaal. Heinz passed away on the morning of Tuesday November 20, 2007. Heinz was a member of the GEVA almost 60 years (from 1945 into the early 2000s). Additional information about Heinz is posted here.
December 15, 2007
The adults tournament schedule is now complete. The remaining dates (February - April) were added to the schedule. The updated schedule is dated 12/15/2007. NOTE: Always Refresh/Reload the schedule page to ensure that you have the latest schedule.
December 11, 2007
There have been some questions about the math behind the rankings for the new system. Note that the system gets more accurate with more results. For the technical at heart, here's a brief overview of the algorithm used for the ranking
Set everyone to a starting RANK of 100.
Do {
For each team
Average this value for each set played:
opponent's ranking from last cycle +/- a win value of 25
(win value is 35 for a playoff match)
} Until all values change by less than 0.01 for a cycle
December 3, 2007
NOTE: The Men's & Women's B/BB Seeding Season tournaments in December are sanctioned. This means that the uniform rule is in effect and that the results of these tournaments will be used to determine team rankings and to seed tournaments for the remainder of the season.
November 29, 2007
The adults tournament schedule has been updated. This update includes a list of tournaments scheduled in January 2008. The remaining 2nd half schedule will be available soon.The updated schedule is dated 11/29/2007. NOTE: Always Refresh/Reload the schedule page to ensure that you have the latest schedule.
November 27, 2007
St. Johns University will be hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA Women's Division I Volleyball Championship tournament this Friday, and Saturday November 30 and December 1, at Carnesecca Arena. Three teams from the GEVA region will be featured in the first round.
Spread the word and come out and support these local teams. Directions can be found at http://geva.org/giDirections.php?site=StJohns.
November 26, 2007
Hot Winter Nights: The AVP is Heating Up Your Winter! It may be freezing outside but we're cranking up the heat and bringing the party indoors, AVP style. It's your own little oasis (okay, along with thousands of other screaming fans) in the dead of winter, complete with the sand, the party, and of course, some of the hottest athletes on the planet. Come and see for yourself as the hottest athletes in the world battle for sand supremacy, indoors! Get your tickets now at avp.com. We'll see you at the beach!
November 26, 2007
The Women’s National Team earned a Bronze medal at World Cup and earned a ticket to the 2008 Olympic Games. Read the full story at http://usavolleyball.org/VolleyballNews/news.asp?id=1996. More information on the Women's National team can be found at http://usavolleyball.org/National/wnthome.asp.
November 25, 2007
There has been an update to the adult tournament schedule regarding B & BB tournaments. The Seeding Season has been extended through the end of December, 2007. The change is necessary as not enough teams have played to split up the B & BB divsions. The updated schedule is dated 11/25/2007. NOTE: Always Refresh/Reload the schedule page to ensure that you have the latest schedule.
November 21, 2007
Official's clinics have been scheduled and are available for registration. Please see the clinics page for details.
October 30, 2007
Registering for Adult tournametns: As there have been some questions and issues about how to register/sign-up for Adult tournaments, click here and read the posting for October 30 for more information on how to register/sign-up for these tournaments.
October 15, 2007
The registrar is getting lots of emails asking "How do I register?" Please note that we are using a new registration system this year; so, you don't need (nor can you use) your login information from last year's system.To register as an individual, do the following:
October 14, 2007
The Adult Division Tournament Play and Registration Procedures are avilable. Click here to access the procedures.
October 9, 2007
The registration system should go live during the day on October 10th. A few notes on registration this year:
September 24, 2007
The 1st half adult tournament schedule is available. Along with the schedule comes with an explanation of the changes to the adult playing rules for the 2008 season. Click here to view the changes.
September 13, 2007
A new set of forums (Message Boards) have been opened on geva.org. To visit them, click on the "Forums" link, on the menu bar above. The forums can be used for searching for new players and/or teams, posting club information, tournament info, and general discussion about volleyball in GEVA. Note that you will need to create a login ID to be able to post messages.
August 23, 2007
The Maccabi organization is sending one indoor men’s, one indoor women’s, and a beach contingency to compete in the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina from December 22, 2007 to January 3, 2008. They are looking for Jewish athletes to round out the rosters. For more information click please visit: here.
June 19, 2007
The site was chosen for the 2008 Adult Nationals. We are returning to Atlanta, Georgia. Click here for the full article.
The GARDEN EMPIRE VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION (GEVA) is the local region of US Volleyball (USAV, the National Governing Body of Volleyball) that is responsible for the promotion and growth of volleyball in New Jersey, Long Island, and the Greater Metropolitan Area of New York City (to include Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam, and Orange Counties).
GEVA promotes volleyball by offering USAV-sanctioned indoor tournaments through-out the fall & winter months and sanctioned outdoor beach and grass tournaments in the spring & summer months. GEVA runs Adult and Junior Olympic programs and sanctions several recreational volleyball leagues in its region. GEVA's adult tournaments are held on week-ends at various venues through-out the region and usually last all day. A team can expect to play at least eight set per tournament; more should they advance to the playoffs. GEVA offers four skill levels for Adult Men and Women (AA, A, BB, B) and various age level competition for Junior Boys and Girls (single age groups starting at 12). At the present time, GEVA offers limited Coed Sanctioned play. We anticipate expanding this area if we see a demand for it.
Information about the GEVA Board of Directors is available from the Board of Directors link. If you have any questions and/or comments, please feel free to send a message to webmaster@geva.org or to the Board members.