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Congratulations to the 2009-2010 GHSA State Volleyball Champions!

AA/A - Wesleyan
AAA - Woodward Academy
AAAA - Whitewater
AAAAA - Pope

Photos courtesy of Photographic Arts

Championship Brackets
Final Four
Elite-Eight Brackets
AAAAA
AAAA
AAA
AA/A
Playoff Brackets
AAAAA
AAAA
AAA
AA/A

Video Streaming - the GHSA State Volleyball championships are available on demand and DVDs can be ordered at GHSA.tv.

Event T-Shirts can be ordered from the remaining inventory at Team-IP by contacting Christa Matuszewski at
cmatuszewski@teamipsports.com. Action photography is available at Photographic Arts – www.schoolpx.biz.

2009-2010 GHSA Volleyball State Championships

The 2009-2010 GHSA State Volleyball Championships will be held at Marietta High School on Saturday, October 31, 2009.

Click here to download the 2009 GHSA Volleyball Championship Program

Schedule

AA/A Wesleyan vs Westminster 11:00 am
AAA Columbus vs Woodward 1:30 pm
AAAA Marist vs Whitewater 4:00 pm
AAAAA Pope vs Walton 7:00 pm

Championship Brackets
Final Four
Elite-Eight Brackets
AAAAA
AAAA
AAA
AA/A
Playoff Brackets
AAAAA
AAAA
AAA
AA/A

For additional information, including brackets, scores, team rosters and schedules please go to GaSports.com

2009-2010 GHSA State Volleyball Elite-Eight Tournaments

The Elite-Eight Tournament portion of the 2009-2010 GHSA State Volleyball Tournaments will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2009.

Click here to download the 2009 GHSA Volleyball Championship Program

Locations
AAAAA - Parkview
AAAA - Marist
AAA - Drew
AA/A - Wesleyan

Admission
$7.00

Elite-Eight Brackets
AAAAA
AAAA
AAA
AA/A
Playoff Brackets
AAAAA
AAAA
AAA
AA/A

For additional information, including brackets, scores, team rosters and schedules please go to GaSports.com

2009-2010 GHSA State Volleyball Playoffs

Round Two of the GHSA State Volleyball Playoffs for 2009-2010 will be held on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 for all advancing teams.

Admission
$5 all persons

Playoff Brackets
AAAAA
AAAA
AAA
AA/A

For additional information, including brackets, scores, team rosters and schedules please go to GaSports.com

2009 GHSA Volleyball Playoffs

ROUND 1
Thursday, October 15: AAAAA and AAAA SCHOOLS
Saturday, October 17: AAA and AA/A SCHOOLS

ROUND 2
Tuesday, October 20: Schools from all clasifications
[NOTE: This is a change from the GHSA Calendar]

  • All matches in Rounds 1 and 2 are “best-of-five” format
  • Classifications must play on the specified date.
  • Playing times will be agreed upon by the competing schools
  • One Line Judge will be furnished by each team – Adults only
  • Host team will furnish scorekeeper, libero tracker, and scoreboard operator [NOTE: If host school does not use a libero, let opponent know before game day to furnish its own tracker.]

SEEDING COMMITTEE MEETING

  • The meeting will be held at 7:00pm on October 21st
  • All 8 teams will be seeded based on the criteria used in previous years
  • Information will be placed on the GVCA and GHSA web sites.

ELITE EIGHT TOURNAMENT SITES
Saturday, October 24th

AAAAA – Parkview
AAAA – Marist
AAA – Drew (Clayton Co.)
AA/A - Wesleyan

BRACKETS

Court #1 Court #2
10:00am #1 VS. #8 #4 VS # 5
12:00 noon #2 VS # 7 #3 VS #6
 
2:00pm Winners of the 10:00am matches
4:00pm Winners of the Noon matches
  • Each site will use two courts at 10:00 and Noon; one court will be used at 2:00 and 4:00
  • All matches will be “best-of-five” format
  • GHSA Officials Associations will furnish Line Judges
  • GHSA will arrange for experienced scorekeepers and libero trackers
  • Host school will provide scoreboard operator, ticket sellers, and ticket takers
  • GHSA will provide athletic trainers
  • Eight (8) Spalding Volleyballs will be sent to each site. All of those balls will be transported to Marietta High School for the Championship matches.

Volleyball

It has come to the attention of the GHSA office staff that Volleyball coaches are playing matches with procedures that do not follow NFHS rules. Many of these modification seem to be driven by time restrictions on play-days and tournaments. If an event has too many teams to follow the rules completely, then it has too many teams.

The Constitution and By-laws specify that GHSA sports follow NFHS rules unless those modifications are specifically addressed in the sport section of the by-laws.

The "best of three" format is approved in the NFHS rules book as a "state adoption", and it is the least amount sets allowed to complete a match. All three sets shall be played to 25 points with no cap. All sets shall begin with the score 0-0.

2009-2010 Volleyball Rules and Procedures

Volleyball rules and procedures extracted from the GHSA Constitution and By-Laws for 2009-2010.

Team Schedule Cards Available from BaseLine Sport Media

Baseline SportsMedia, a leading provider of print solutions for college athletics and an official licensee of the GHSA, is offering an easy way to promote your high school’s sports: Team Schedule Cards! The cards are full-color, folding, pocket-sized schedules (3.5” x 4.5”), with 4 panels for schedule and high school information, your agency contacts, and your own optional picture.

Click here for more info.

Volleyball Area Alignments for 2009-2010

Announcing the volleyball area alignments for the 2009-2010 season.

Volleyball Calendar Change

In order to facilitate the changes in the format of post-season play that were approved by the GHSA Executive Committee this week, that last day of the 2009 regular season will be October 10th instead of October 17th.

The GHSA regrets any inconvenience that may result if matches and/or the area tournaments have to be rescheduled. The complete calendar of the post-season format will be published next week in the GHSA newsletter.

The forms to register a school’s intent to participate in Volleyball in the 2009 season are due in the GHSA office no later than April 1st. The area assignments should be released in mid-April.