TRYOUTS & OPEN GYM | Apexvolleyballclub

TRYOUTS AND OPEN GYMS

2026-2027 SEASON

Tryouts are located at The Clubhouse: 4136 E. Kearney St. Springfield, MO 65803

July 11th

12's 8:30 am - 10:30 am

13's 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm

14's 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm 2 day tryout

15's 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm 2 day tryout

July 12th

16's 11:30 pm - 2:00 pm

14's 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm Invite Only

15's 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Invite Only

17 & 18's 7:00pm - 9:00pm

July 13th

10's & 11's 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

July 14th- MAKE-UP TRYOUTS

13's & 14's 5:00-6:30pm

15's & 16's 6:30-9:00pm

FORMS NEEDED FOR TRYOUTS

You must have a current membership with USA Volleyball before you can attend tryouts. Your membership from the 25-26 season is good until the end of August so if you played club this year your membership is still valid for tryouts. If you do not have a membership from this last season, you will need to purchase a $15 Summer membership that will allow you to attend any HOA sanctioned tryout or open gym. If you are unsure of the age your daughter should try out for, you can click this link and determine the proper tryout age. USAV Age Classification (Needed for Tryout Registration Form). Please make sure you attend the appropriate tryout age group!!

BRING THE FOLLOWING TO TRYOUTS:

1) A copy of your USAV Membership Card - Link for Membership Card

2) Tryout fee of $15

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The 2026 Summer Tryout people will start on Saturday July 11th, this is the first date clubs can extend formal offers to players. The first date players will be able to accept an offer is on Thursday, July 16th.

Per HOA

OPEN GYMS:

Open Gyms are located at The Clubhouse: 4136 E. Kearney St. Springfield, MO 65803

11s/12s

Wednesday, June 10th | 530-7pm

Monday, June 22nd | 530-7pm

13s

Friday, June 12th | 530-7pm

Thursday July 2nd | 530-7pm

14s

Wednesday, June 10th | 730-9pm

Wednesday, July 1st | 530-7pm

15s

Monday, June 22nd | 730-9pm

Thursday, July 2nd | 730-9pm

16s

Friday, June 12th | 730-9pm

Wednesday, July 1st | 730-9pm

OPEN GYM DETAILS:

$10/ Open Gym - Cash at door OR Venmo to @Apex-VBC (include name, age and date attending)
Pre-registering is recommended and encouraged, but walk-ins are welcome.
Coaches shall be facilitators only. There shall be no individual or group instruction.
Open to all players, regardless of current club.

LEVEL OF TEAMS FORMED WITHIN APEX VOLLEYBALL CLUB

When your athlete comes to tryouts, she will have a choice of trying out for a regional team, a national team, or both. If you chose to try out for a national team and are placed on one, you will be expected to be at all practices and travel to all tournaments. If your family would rather not travel, then you should try out for a regional team only. See below for more details about the two levels of teams at Apex.

National Teams: National level teams will attend high-level competition tournaments, such as Heart of America power league, national qualifiers, and regionals in order to earn a bid to GJNCs in the summer of 2026. Parents and players will be expected to travel more at this level. Please take this into account and make sure your schedules in school, whether it be other sports, dances (proms, etc.), and work schedules will allow for this travel. In addition to time, there will be extra expenses for your personal hotel and travel to these tournaments. Being placed on a national team, and then not attending these tournaments with your team, may disqualify you the next season for a national team.

Regional Teams: Regional level teams will have both local and non-local tournaments. The team, parents, and players will have some input into how much traveling they want to do outside of the local area. Non-local tournaments could include Kansas City area, Joplin, Lebanon, and others within an hour's drive of Springfield, Mo. These teams will practice twice a week until the tournament schedule starts. At that time, practices will be adjusted due to playing on the weekends. The fees for regional teams could vary slightly if your team decides to add additional tournaments. Our regional teams are designed for the players that don’t want to travel or that play other sports that make it difficult to commit to a national team. Players on regional teams may be of high skill level, but just not have the time needed to commit to a national traveling team. Our regional teams are very competitive and usually do very well locally.

Apex Volleyball Club will be training at The Clubhouse. All national teams will be formed to compete at the highest level. Our goal at Apex is to have several national teams within each age division that will compete in power league and regionals with the expectations of earning a bid to nationals. In addition, we want to push our athletes to the highest level to reach their full potential. There is great talent throughout Southwest Missouri. Our hope is to bring this talent together by using our five court training facilities and experienced coaches to improve your individual skills and form competitive teams that will compete nationally.

At Apex, our mission states, “As a club, we have a great passion for the game of volleyball and strive to consistently gain skills to play at a competitive level around the country. Our purpose is to have all youth enhance their skills with our program and to continue into the collegiate level.”