'24-'25
tryouts

It's that time of year again and we're looking forward to another season of club volleyball at Northern Impact!

We're here to answer your questions

If you have any questions about tryouts or Northern Impact's volleyball programs, please contact Kraig O'Rourke at Kraig@nivb.org 

2024-2025 Club Season Tryouts (UPDATED 10/21/2024)

Tryouts

  1. Tryout registration is now closed.  (Full as of November 9, 2024)
  2. There is a non-refundable fee of $40 to tryout.
  3. Selected players will be offered the opportunity to commit to Northern Impact immediately following the tryout.  In the past, we attempted to offer specific team commitments at tryouts, but this season we will likely offer only club-level commitments and may delay team selection until subsequent evaluations can be done to determine teams.  This approach should accelerate tryouts and help assure fair and appropriate team placement.  Offers  are time limited to 10 minutes to assure that players are committed prior to releasing everyone from tryouts.
  4. Tryout Days:
  • Day 1 - Oct 27, 2024: Commitment Day for U14 and younger - Mounds View High School Gyms
    • U14 and U13
      • Check in begins at 8:30 am for 9:00 am start.
    •  U12 players
      • Check in at 12:00 pm for 12:30 pm start
  •  Day 2 - Oct 29, 2024: Team Placement for 13s/14s
    • 6:30 pm @ Irondale High School Gymnasiums
  • Nov 10, 2024: Commitment Day for 15+
    • U17 and U18 players
      • Check in at 9am for 9:30 am start.
    • U16 and U15players
      • Check in at 12:00 pm for 12:30 pm start.

15-18 year-olds will tryout at Chippewa Middle School Gymnasiums 

5000 Hodgson Rd Connection, St Paul, MN 55126

  • Day 2 (only if necessary) - Nov. 14, 2024: Team Placement for 15 and up.
    • ​​​​​​​7:45 pm @ Irondale High School Gymnasiums

Key Dates & General Information

Key Dates

Players 14 and under

  • Oct 27, 2024: Tryout/Commitment day
  • Oct 29, 2024:  Evaluations and team announcements

Players 15 and older 

  • Nov 10, 2024: Tryout/Commitment day
  • Nov 14, 2024:  (ONLY IF NECESSARY) Continued Evaluations and team announcements.

General Information

For the 2024-25 season, we expect to:

  • Field 10 teams: (12s - 18s)
  • Hold 2 practices/week/team 90 - 120 minutes each in length
  • Host positional training and skills nights with coaches offering position/skill specific instruction.
  • Determine competitions, costs and travel requirements prior to tryout day.   (This information is currently incomplete, but all teams are likely to have two overnight travel events to locations outside of the metro area (Usually Rochester and Duluth, MN.)
  • Costs for the season will vary by age group and team due to varying costs of travel, tournaments and gym time.  Current fees are expected to be as follows:
    • $1600 for U12 Teams (Cost before cash discount and fundraising)
    • $2550 for 13+ Teams (Cost before cash discount and fundraising)
  • Fees are all-inclusive of practice time, coach fees, event fees, uniform/apparel package, and JVA/USAV Membership and all administrative fees.  We have partnered with Dynamic Fundraising to provide an opportunity for players to reduce their fees by up to $500 with participation in our program. We are already the best value in this area and our partnership with Dynamic Fundraising puts our costs FAR below our competition.
  • Fees above are reduced $100 for full payment up front, or are otherwise broken into a down-payment and then monthly payments.

COVID-19

In recent years, we implemented and followed a strict COVID-19 plan that allowed us to compete while other clubs did not. These past two seasons, things have relaxed quite a bit, but we will continue sanitizing equipment, asking players to stay home if they have symptoms of illness, and masking when players have not been symptom free for more than five days. Gone are the full time masking requirements, temperature and symptom checks at the door, and lengthy quarantines and isolations following exposure, so that's a win.

If tryouts, or the season itself, are cancelled or shortened due public health reasons, refunds will be awarded based upon the costs incurred.