Philosophy

Welcome to the Ozark Volleyball Club,

Ozark Volleyball Club, located out of THE ALL STAR SPORTS ARENA (Springdale, AR) as well as the campus' of MISSOURI SOUTHERN (Joplin, MO) and U of CENTRAL ARKANSAS (Conway, AR), is a unique and diverse youth sports organization that is made up of a network volleyball organizations within a geographical footwork of 5 hours in every direction. Ozark has over 400 active members and will reach it's goal of 1,000 members by Jan. 8th 2008, thus becomning, by far, the largest Junior Olympic Volleyball Club in the United States.

Volleyball in the DELTA Region of the United States  has been long considered near the bottom competitively and participatory in the United States Volleyball Community for many years. A vast majority of successful and elite volleyball clubs are based in large metropolitan areas with a wide range of volleyball resources to utlilize. Ozark is attempting the unique concept of establishing a network of clubs within a 5 hour radius in an effort to pool resources to help grow the sport both competitively and participatory.

Ozark is also taking the approrach of offering professionally run programs administred by qualified individuals in the sport of volleyball. We DO NOT believe in the typical youth sports approach of assigning volunteer moms and dads to train our players. We also feel that administrative duties should be centralized and coordinated by one central staff and not by a group of part time, volunteer parents. We DO NOT wish for our highly skilled coaches to have to worry about the hassles of administering our teams but allow them more time to concentrate on training your children.

Our goals is to provide the opportunity for highly skilled athletes to pursue college scholarship opportunities as well as giving the less experienced player the chance to improve their skills for their scholastic teams. Ozark is open to ALL players and will gladly teach any player, of ANY AGE the wonderful lifetime sport of volleyball. Ozark is an ELITE club but not ELITIST. 

We are a volleyball club that is run by volleyball people. 

Thank you,

The Directors for the OZARK Volleyball Club

Explanation of our logo

What could you learn from a flock of geese?

Working together enables flocks to solve the problems of long-distance travel and survival. The reduced wind resistance of formation flying extends each bird's range 20% further than they would be capable of flying alone.

There is no lead goose. The toughest job, flying front and center, gets exchanged often. Each of the strongest flyers takes a turn at this position. Encouragement from everyone is essential.

Constant feedback and information sharing takes place between team members.