 One of the thousands of young volleyball players to have played in the Cardinal Sports Youth Cup over the last 10 years pictured here in the final of the P6-P7 boys competition in 2007.
On SUNDAY 24.02.08 why not come to Edinburgh and be part of the 10 year anniversary competition of the Cardinal Sports Youth Cup 2008!! The Cardinal Sports Youth Cup is Britain's largest indoor youth volleyball tournament, with over 100 teams competing over the last two years.
The tournament is open to boys and girls aged primary 4 - secondary 4.
For more information about the 2008 competition click here
 The 2007-2008 City of Edinburgh Girls U16 JNL team with their coach Gavin Watt
Sunday, 28/10/07
These City of Edinburgh girls made history by being the first ever female team to compete for City of Edinburgh in an SVA competition.
Well done to the girls for winning both of their opening games in the 2007-2008 SVA Junior National League U16 and to their coach, Gavin Watt.
The club's Head Coach Ian Brownlee commented "The City of Edinburgh Volleyball Academy philosophy is to provide opportunties and develop potential of young athletes through a team sport. Therefore it's great that we now have girls programmes for U16, U13, U11, U9 and U7 to give the same excellent coaching, training and competition opportunities to both male and female athletes. Our target is 100 boys and 100 girls in the volleyball academy by 2010."
Picture above: The Echline Baby Volley group of City of Edinburgh Volleyball!! Why are they all smiling? Anyone would think they had just been given their new City of Edinburgh Volleyball t-shirts!!
Baby volley covers the years P1 - P3 where the kids are all explorers. The sessions introduce young players to the areas of
exploring movement, balance, co-ordination and gymnastic skills, plus
learning basic motor skills like running, jumping and throwing. The players learn these skills though fun challenges, tasks and games, co-operating with their friends and of course sometimes trying to beat them! These skills are important for all sports, which these young kids may play later.
Coaches Heather Darling and Scott Baillie have been looking after this group for over a year now with some of the kids joining this term for the first time. On day one it is a struggle to put the shoes on the right feet but then soon the kids are in their element and looking like the champions of tomorrow!
For more information about the City of Edinburgh baby volleyball programmes for P1 - P3 click here
 City of Edinburgh's Stuart Parker serving for Scotland East at the 2007 UK School Games in Coventry.
Photo (C) SB images, www.sbimages.co.uk
Congtratulations to all the City of Edinburgh players on their performances at the UK School Games and on receiving their first international caps:
Scotland East
Stuart Parker - Setter & Captain
Ben Hunter, Sean McCashey & Murray Smith - Spikers
Liam Darling - Libero
Scotland West
Jamie Bruce - Libero
 City of Edinburgh cadets headed to Lille in France for 5 days of volleyball!!
For photos and full report, click here
 3.6.07
A total of 24 City of Edinburgh Cadets headed down to Portobello for the annual City of Edinburgh 2 day beach camp. At the camp the older cadets prepare for the SVA Beach Tour season ahead while the younger cadets learn the basic beach volleyball skills and tactics.
Thanks again to beach tutors Mel Coutts and Colin Paterson for sharing their outstanding technical and tactical knowledge of the beach game!
For more photos click here
24.2.06
City of Edinburgh have qualified for the SVA Cup Final for the first time!! After a disappointing league result in mid-week the team bounced back with a strong performance to qualify as convincing winners:
City of Edinburgh 3 Team Fife 0
25-18, 25-20, 25-14
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