Arizona Sidelines

Arizona Sidelines is a newsletter designed specifically for volleyball coaches. There are articles of interest to coaches, questions posed to national and international level coaches, resource lists that are of interest to volleyball coaches and other informative articles. To sign up for this newsletter to be sent to your email address, send an email to the Region office with Subcribe Arizona Sidelines as the subject and we will add your email to our list. To view the first two newsletters click on the issue. They are here in pdf format.

IMPACT Refresher Opportunities

In lieu of refreshing IMPACT, coaches may attend an approved coach's clinic. The types of clinics on the approved list would be those headlining college/university coaches, national team coaches, professional coaching clinics such as those at the AVCA convention, USAV High Performance Training Courses, etc. This shows the Region that as a coach you are learning and growing in your experience and knowledge of the game - entertaining new and innovative ideas when it comes to coaching. Techniques change over the years and these type of clinics keep our coaches on the cutting edge in coaching. Proof of attendance at the clinics will serve to refresh your IMPACT certification.

As the summer approaches there will be opportunities available to refresh your coach's certification. If you are in need of refreshing your certification check here for opportunities available in or around Arizona that you may take advantage of over the summer. These clinics will refresh your certificate for 3 years in Arizona.

Click here for refresher opportunities >>>>

If you do attend a refresher course you will need verification of attendance. Click here to print off the form to take to the camp/clinic/course that you will attend. This form must be completed and sent to the Region Office.

IMPACT/IMPACT Plus

To coach in the Arizona Region you must be a minimum of IMPACT Certified.  This includes all head coaches, assistant coaches and "floating" coaches.  IMPACT must be refreshed or upgraded after 3 years.  You must be certified before the first tournament of the season. 

The Arizona Region is offering IMPACT for new coaches that have never coached in the USA Volleyball system before and IMPACT Plus for those that have taken IMPACT before and are refreshing their certification.  Coaches that are refreshing have the option to take IMPACT, IMPACT Plus or another approved clinic.  New coaches or coaches new to club system must take IMPACT certification - no exceptions.

If you are in need of IMPACT Certification or a refresher, please contact the Arizona Region office to register for a clinic.  

USA CAP is another way to grow in your knowledge and experience of the game. The CAP Program has undergone a transformation. There are now modules that you can take to build a CAP certification. There is even a Home Equivalency Course for CAP. Check out the USAV website for more information.

USA Volleyball CAP clinic information