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Extreme volleyball club working towards start of season

The Estevan Extreme Volleyball Club has started practising so that it can be ready for the upcoming season, and it has also started an important fundraiser. The Extreme has several different teams for young volleyball players.
Estevan Extreme Volleyball Club
The Estevan Extreme Volleyball Club has been holding camps to help players work on their skills. Photo submitted

The Estevan Extreme Volleyball Club has started practising so that it can be ready for the upcoming season, and it has also started an important fundraiser.

The Extreme has several different teams for young volleyball players. They haven’t started their actual club volleyball season yet; rather, they have been holding camps for the athletes. Sessions started on Nov. 1 and are happening at the Doug Third Gymnasium, which will be their home for the next two seasons.

New for this year is the Atomic Smashball program, a modified game for girls and boys in Grades 4-6.

For girls in Grades 7-12, they have camps for girls in each age, ranging from under-13 to under-17, and they have a camp for boys who are ages 13-16. About 100 kids have registered for the program, with the Atomic Smash the most popular.

“Atomic Smashball is a program that Sask. Volleyball has been trying to get going,” said coach Mandy Murray. “It’s kind of an interesting program. They teach the kids how to be aggressive. The very first day you start atomic, you learn how to attack or spike the ball.”

The format allows kids to become interested in the sport right away.

Another round of Atomic Smashball is scheduled for the spring of 2021.

They have enough kids in each of the different age groups to have a club team.

“We haven’t gone right into actual club season right now. We’re just doing volleyball camps,” said Murray.

A big emphasis for the Extreme has been getting the players back into game shape. They haven’t been able to play since mid-March, when the COVID-19 pandemic put the brakes on their season.

“It’s been a really long time since they’ve been back in the gym. We usually like to try and get them back in the gym in the beginning of October, and we didn’t get started until the beginning of November, waiting on Sask. Volleyball,” said Murray.

The Extreme volleyball club has about a dozen coaches, and they’re always looking for more. But the ones they have are a very dedicated group.

“We’ve got a really good group of coaches. We have some younger coaches, which is nice to see, who have been through the program themselves and now are coming back and coaching. So that’s fantastic and we’re really excited about that.”

Sask. Volleyball has told them they can start a club season on Nov. 30, which was much earlier than expected. Their camps are essentially tryouts, but anybody who is not a part of the camps will attend one-day tryouts in November.

The tryouts for each of the five girls teams will be Nov. 21, starting with the 13U team at 10 a.m.  Tryouts for boys team, for those 14-16 will be Nov. 21, starting at 5:45 p.m., and Dec. 5, starting at 2 p.m. 

Please email at info@estevanextreme.com to register. Every player must register to try out.

Extreme volleyball players are likely to compete in mini-leagues this year rather than tournaments. Sask. Volleyball is trying to figure out how they would offer tournaments this season.

A date hasn’t been set for mini-leagues, but they likely won’t happen until early in 2021.

“We usually don’t start competing until the end of January or beginning of February anyways,” said Murray.

A Facebook Christmas auction is underway, with a lot of great prizes available, she said. People can find homemade items, toys, seasonal jackets, hair care products and more.

Each week some new items will be available. Bidding on the Week 3 items began on Monday.