email – Downstate Juniors VBC

We need to get all of the athletes and coaches registered with AAU for the Memorial Day weekend tournament at the Mohegan Sun. Please click the following link: https://play.aausports.org/joinaau/memberappdirectorpage.aspx and then select a “Youth Athlete Membership”. The cost should be $16. When asked, you’ll need to associate your membership with Downstate Juniors VBC, club code…

Greetings parents, I’ll start by apologizing for how many emails you have been receiving from Downstate! It get’s overwhelming as we try to prepare everything for the start of the season. A couple of days ago you received an email asking you to accept the club assignment, ASAP. I’ve been on support calls with SportsEngine…

Greetings parents and athletes playing at Somers Sports Arena, Due to a big wrestling event that will be held at Somers Sports Arena, on Saturday, 12/4, there won’t be any Downstate practices that day. To help get a little “extra” court time, I’m going to host position clinics, focused on serving and passing, on Sunday…

If you have already registered for GEVA / USA Volleyball, AND have completed the form at https://forms.gle/p9ZpXYkenn7jYfop8, thank you and you don’t need to read the rest of this email (and please don’t email us asking us to confirm!). We are starting to build rosters that will allow us to enter the local tournaments for all…

Hello Players and Parents: We hope you are all as excited about the season starting as we are! We know you’re all anxious and most likely have some questions pertaining to the upcoming season, and particularly, regarding how Downstate will be addressing issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. So, we wanted to share some thoughts: During…

Hello Players and Parents! Today I finished sending out the links for hotel rooms that I’m able to at this time. So, I can give a quick overview to answer the emails I received about this. These hotels have deadlines, some have been extended for us already. These MUST be booked ASAP, please. All overnight tournaments…

Hello Players and Parents! I hope everyone is having a nice and relaxing weekend! Tomorrow, I will start sending emails about hotels. I will only put the tournament name inside the subject line, so for those teams who are receiving multiple emails from me I will try not to confuse you. Hotel deadlines are very…

Hello Players and Parents! Many people have been asking about purchasing single items, such as spandex, socks or even another hoodie. So, we have asked SMACK to set up fan wear and store for single purchase items. This will close on Sunday, Nov 7th! This does not take replace purchasing the uniform package which…

Hello Players and Parents! If you already ordered your package please ignore. If you have recently signed up or still havent purchased a uniform please follow the link below: National, Regional and Aspire PACKAGES: https://downstateunforms2021v2.itemorder.com/sale Remeber, that you cannot input your jersey number anywhere. You were asked for jersey number preferences already in registration. If…

Greetings! We’ll be hosting a FREE Boys’ Clinic, at the Downstate Athletic Center, in Peekskill, on Monday, November 1, from 6-8p. We’d love to have you come out. Also, please feel free to invite a friend to join us! We would love to get enough interest to run another boys team, and we’re very close!…

Greetings! First, best of luck to all of you that are preparing for the Sectional playoffs! With the high school season moving into the playoffs, that means we’re getting closer and closer to the start of the Downstate club season. At this time, we need everyone to complete their registration with USA Volleyball (GEVA). To…

Greetings, This message is going out to all registered athletes and families for the Downstate 2021-22 club season. If you have already ordered your uniform kit, then you can safely ignore the part of this message between the lines. ——————— As most of you know, the store for ordering your Downstate uniform kit closed on…

Hi Downstate boys, Here’s the link to order the boys uniform package: https://downstateboys2021.itemorder.com/sale Note, the store will remain open thru Sunday, October 17. Please place your order before that. Note, you need to order the full kit. Regards, Joel Stanford Downstate Juniors VBC 214-616-3668

Greetings! If you have already placed your uniform order, you can ignore the remainder of this message (please, do not email asking for confirmation – you know if you did it or not and the system works!) The uniform order form will close on Sunday night, 10/10. All uniforms ordered up to that point will…

Hello Downstate Players and Parents! I hope everyone is having a great high school season. I just wanted to send you a reminder that the uniform clothing store closes Sunday, September 26th at 6pm. This is the link: https://downstateunforms2021.itemorder.com/sale Please make sure to have everything ordered by then. Remeber, that you cannot input your jersey…

Greetings Downstate athletes and families! Thank you for making this one of the most successful club tryout events in Downstate history. We are very excited about the upcoming season! We believe that our teams, top to bottom, represent the best group of athletes this area has ever seen. Now that most of the team rosters…

Hello players and parents! We are excited to see you all at the upcoming tryouts. Specific dates and times are as follows for 9th Grade & Older: 8/28, EAST (Somers) 2:00-4:00 All 9th Graders 15u 4:00-6:00 All 10th & 11th Graders 16u/17u 8/29, DAC – Peekskill 9:00-12:00 All 9th Graders 15u 12:30-3:30 All 10th Graders…

Greetings, We just wanted to send an email about this upcoming weekend’s tryouts, early in the week, to ensure everyone has advance notice and can plan accordingly for the upcoming dates. As you are probably aware, we cancelled tryouts scheduled for August 22, 2021, when New York State declared a State of Emergency for our…

Good evening all, As you are all probably aware by now, the Governor of NYS has placed us in a State of Emergency. The Directors have been monitoring the news coverage regarding the storm and unfortunately, we feel it is the best and safest decision, to cancel all Downstate related events including tryouts, at all…

Hello players and parents! We are excited to see all of the young athletes at the upcoming tryouts. Specific dates and times are located on the front page of our website, at downstatevolleyball.com, however, we wanted to touch base with you all to provide some general information regarding how the tryouts will go. The Board…