Camps & Clinics
Current camps, clinics and learning opportunities.
Virtual Coaching Presentation: Service Each Athlete - Coaching the Individual in a Collective (July 7 2025)
Serving Each Athlete: Coaching the Individual in a Collective
Date: July 7, 2025
Time: 9:00 pm-10:00 pm EDT
Coaches: Josh Nichol, Beach Next Gen Men's Coach, and Heather Bansley, Olympian & Women's Beach National Team Athlete
Cost: Free
Interested in developing your coaching skills? Join Beach Men's Next Gen Head Coach Josh Nichol as he speaks about using individual performance plans within beach clubs.
To sign up, please register for the event here.
Para Beach Volleyball Clinic (Toronto, July 26)
Date: July 26, 2025
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm EDT
Location: Beach Volleyball High Performance Centre, 75 Carl Hall Rd.
Coaches: Josh Nichol, Head Coach, Volleyball Canada Next Gen Men's Beach
Cost: Free
This free clinic offers anyone the chance to learn and play 3-player beach para-volleyball through instruction and casual play. No experience or skills are needed. Everyone is welcome!
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact imacintosh@volleyball.ca
Smashball Coach Workshops
The Smashball Coach Workshop is designed to support coaches in delivering Smashball programs to develop players in the Fundamentals (6-8) and Learn to Train (9-12) stages of the Long-Term Development (LTD) model. The workshop is a 3-hour National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) live/synchronous online course that provides:
- Interactive exercises, video demonstrations, and quizzes to support learning and program delivery.
- Instruction on how to deliver the Smashball game using materials included in Volleyball Canada’s free Smashball Trainer App.
- 80-page Activity Bank.
- 5 Professional Development (PD) points for NCCP certified coaches.
- The NCCP status of: “Trained” Community Volleyball Coach.
The Smashball Trainer App provides expert lesson plans with lots of video to make running a practice or gym class easy and fun. Produced by Volleyball Canada and based on the proven teaching methodology of Teaching Games for Understanding, kids will be kept engaged and active throughout a game or practice. Setup support and official rules for competitions are also provided.
| English Smashball Coach Workshops | ||||
| Date | Time | Time Zone | Cost | Registration |
| June 10 | 6:00-9:00 | EDT | $70 | REGISTER |
| June 16 | 6:00-9:00 | PDT | $70 | REGISTER |
| French Smashball Coach Workshops | ||||
| Date | Time | Time Zone | Cost | Registration |
| TBA | ||||
Or visit the VC Coaching Centre and go to WORKSHOPS to register.
VC Combine: (Various Dates)
The Volleyball Canada (VC) Combine, provides a high-performance testing experience for volleyball athletes in Canada. This new event offers an opportunity for athletes across the country to complete the same tests as our National Team athletes.
The VC Combine will provide athletes with a chance to see how they compare to their peers and to those at the national team level. In addition to providing athletes with performance statistics, a Canadian database will be established to monitor and track the evolution of athletes throughout their volleyball careers.
Click here for more information on the VC Combine
Upcoming Combines:
The Volleyball Canada Combine is currently undergoing a restructuring process and will not host events during the 2024-2025 season.
We hope to return in the 2025-2026 season!
For more info, please contact:
Shelby Prilisauer
Email: combine@volleyball.ca
RBC Training Ground: (Various Dates)
Canadian athletes between the ages of 14 and 25 have the chance to be scouted by nine Team Canada sports for free, including Volleyball Canada.