Volleyball

• Volleyball Calendar
• USA Volleyball
• Special Olympics Quick Start Guide – printable version
• Special Olympics Quick Start Guide – digital version
• Special Olympics Unified Quick Start Guide
• Special Olympics Coaching Guide
• Other SOI Coaching Resources

SONC offers four types of volleyball competition: individual skills, traditional, Unified and modified team.

Individual skills competition allows Special Olympics athletes to develop sports skills in a competitive format designed to serve as a stepping stone to team competition. The indvidual skills offered for volleyball are overhead passing, serving, and passing.

Traditional volleyball team competition is played on a regulation volleyball court with a traditional indoor leather volleyball.

Modified volleyball team competition is played on a regulation volleyball court but a lighter, larger volleyball. The service line is also moved closer to the net.

Unified Volleyball team competition is played on a regulation volleyball court bringing together people with intellectual disabilities (athletes) and people without intellectual disabilities (partners) on the same teams.

Additional competition opportunities will be available for Unified Sports.  This is being done in anticipation of potentially removing all Unified competition from state-level events starting in the 2017-2018 program year.

SONC Summer Games is held in Raleigh typically the first weekend in June.

UNC Chapel Hill Volleyball Clinic is offered to SONC athletes and features skills stations run by the members of the UNC Chapel Hill women’s volleyball team. Registration information for this clinic will be made available as it’s received.

SO Cumberland County Volleyball Invitational – May 20, 2017

SONC volleyball teams are invited for a day of competition on May 20, 2017. There is a maximum number of teams, so please contact Jeremy Mincey by April 14th to register or with any questions.