Welcome all Volleyball enthusiasts, we are excited to announce the Summer 2024 Volleyball league, please find the details about the league here. We are having two seperate divisions (Div-1 Advanced and Div-2 Intermediate)

Format 

4 x 4 players

League dates/duration  

June 10th 2024 through July 25th 2024 (Mondays/Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays).

Time: 6:30PM to 9:00PM

Courts Venue/Location

Green Hope Elementary school park, 2750 Louis Stephen's Drive, Cary, NC, 27519

Registration

Bring your own team (BYOT) and choose an option to play either Div-1 (Advanced) or Div-2 (Intermediate).

Number of teams 

Registrations capped at 6 teams each for each division

Number of players

Teams can have maximum of 8 players in the roster including substitutes. No more roster changes allowed after 3 weeks into the league

Substitutes

The respective teams will have to bring their substitutes for the games which should be part of their roster. A full time player and a sub can play only for their respective team and cannot play across teams. Any violations to this rule, will cause a forfeit for the violating team

Referee/Official

This will be a self-officiated league and we expect the participants to display ‘Sportsmanship spirit’ and have fun during the games

Reporting score

Each team will be provided a score card on the day of play to make a note of the scores. In addition to this we expect the captains to email their score to ‘strivevolleyball@gmail.com’ email address (which will be displayed in the STRIVE website).

Team Rankings

The rankings of the teams will be determined based on the ‘Percentage of wins’, which is calculated as the number of sets a team wins/number of sets played by the team. 

End of the league Tournament

In addition to the league, we also offer an ‘End of the league’ tournament which will follow a ‘Double elimination’ format. So irrespective of the standings in the league, each team gets another shot to redeem the title at the ‘End of the league tournament’. Every player participating in the tournament must play at least two weeks in the regular season

Recognition

The top two teams from each division at the end of regular season and in the mini tournament will be recognized.

STRIVE - Sand Volleyball Rules (4x4)

Players

1. A team can have a maximum of 8 players, but no more than 4 players on court and no less than 3 players on the court at any given time.
2. No person may play on more than one team.
3. Should be at least 13 years old and should individually consent to abide by the tournament rules as well as the volleyball game rules.

Rules

1. Rotation policy is not applicable (i.e players can play in fixed positions or choose to switch positions), however the players should follow the same order for serve (Player 1 through 4)
2. Substitution will be allowed for any player at any time, without a cap on the number of substitutions
3. Players may only hit the ball on their side of the net (or on the plane of the net). A player may not attack a ball that has not crossed the vertical plane of the net on either the first or second hit, provided that neither of these hits were attacks
4. No serve may be blocked or attacked
5. We will not have a 10 feet line in the court (so any player can attack from anywhere)
6. Open hand receive is allowed
7. No open hand push/tip is allowed
8. Since we have players with varying skill levels, we will be lenient in the ‘double’ calls while setting unless it is very obvious
9. Block doesn’t count as first touch
10. Players can accidentally enter into the opponent's court under the net, as long as this does not interfere with the opponent’s play
11. Contact with the net by a player IS A FAULT. When the ball is driven into the net and causes it to touch an opponent, no fault is committed
12. Insignificant contact with the net by a player not involved in the action of playing the ball is allowed
13. The ball may touch any part of the body
14. A player may only have one toss per serve attempt
15. If for unforeseen circumstances we have to postpone a game, it will be rescheduled the following day subject to availability of courts.
16. The team captain is responsible for discipline and proper conduct of team members and is the only player who may address the referees and shall be the spokesperson of his/her team.
17. STRIVE organizing committee reserve the right to evict any player/team for unsportsmanlike conduct of any nature.