Volleyball

Sport Representatives: VOLLEYBALL  - Kim Peabody, Taylorville 

*Sport Rep Responsibilities:

1. Coordinate annual Apollo Conference By-laws meeting

2. Conduct All-Conference Meeting following Conference guidelines

3. Communicate any concerns, etc. regarding their sport to other conference coaches and AD’s

4. Send out reminder to coaches of all-conference meeting…time, date and location

5. Provide AD President & Secretary with TYPED results (document or E-mail) of Team Standings with records and All Conference Selections including Name, Year in school, Position, whether 1st Team or 2nd Team. Please make sure that spelling is correct.

* Schedule:

1. SEE Apollo Conference Master Schedule

2. All Apollo Conference schools will follow the master schedule as adopted by the conference.

3. Prior to each regularly scheduled varsity match, a preliminary JV match shall be played, starting at 6:00 PM and a Freshman contest may be played prior to the JV match with the start time TBD by the competing schools.  

The following Warm-Ups will be used: Varsity, 2(Both)-6(H)-6(V); JV, 2(Both)-6(H)-6(V); FR, 2(Both)-6(H)-6(V).  Warm-up balls will be provided by the HOME team.

           3.5)   Beginning in 2018-19, Freshmen games beginning at 5:00 pm will be played best 2 of 3.  Games 1&2 will be

        to 21, win by 2.  Game 3 will be to 15 capped.  JV games will follow and will be played best 2 of 3.  

       Games 1&2 will be to 25, win by 2.  Game 3 will be to 15, win by 2.  Varsity will be as always best 2 of 3

       to 25, win by 2.

4. Each year all members of the conference must play two scheduled volleyball matches with all other member schools.  

5. Each scheduled game must be played unless prohibited by unavoidable circumstances.  Postponed games may be rescheduled by mutual agreement between the two schools involved.  In case a game is cancelled, the Executive Committee shall determine whether the schools involved in the cancellation shall be eligible for the championship.  

*Rules of play: 

1. NFHS rules apply unless the IHSA specifies differences or exceptions. See #3 above.

*Conference Champion: 

The Conference Champion(s) will be the team(s) with the best record in Conference play.  All matches must be made-up that have a bearing on determining the Conference Champion. If matches have no direct bearing on determining the conference champion and cannot be made up, they will be considered a draw.

*Awards

Conference Champion –Plaque Insert

All Conference members – All Conference Certificates

*All Conference Selections:

1) Meeting Date: Sunday of IHSA Week #17 unless changed by AD’s or majority of coaches (all must attend).

2) Meeting Location / Time: Mt. Zion High School / 3:00 PM

3) Release: The All Conference Volleyball Teams will be released by formal press release by the

    Conference A.D. secretary as soon as the last team is finished in the IHSA State Series.

4) 14 TOTAL Members will be selected. (12 position players and 2 liberos.  7 First Team, 7 Second Team.  

    Liberos must be for that position only) 

5) Selection Procedures:

NOMINATION PROCEDURE

Each head coach shall nominate any member of their team who they feel is deserving of the honor of selection to any of the All-Conference Tournament Teams.  These nominations should be sent to Coaches Rep no later than Monday prior to the selection meeting. Prior to selection procedures, the nominees from each school shall be recorded by name and school upon the chalkboard. All errors on the board should be corrected at this time.

VOTING

The head coaches will elect a setter and Libero for the First Team.  Then the remaining players will be voted upon with the five players receiving the most points being elected to the First Team and the next six to the Second Team along with another Libero.

ORDER OF PREFERENCE

SETTER 1 POINT

FIRST 5 POINTS

SECOND 4 POINTS

THIRD 3 POINTS

FOURTH 2 POINTS

FIFTH 1 POINT

A Coach may not vote for a player from his/her own team.

Ties:  In case of a tie on the First Team, eight players will be named to the First Team, six to the Second Team,. If more than two players tie for a place on first and second teams, a vote must be taken to get the team to 14 members.  

Withdrawals may be done by a coach at anytime.

There is no limit to the number of players a coach may wish to nominate as long as the integrity of the Apollo Conference Team selection process is not compromised.  Coaches should remember that players selected for nomination should possess characteristics such as; leadership, sportsmanship, team play, consistency in serving, spiking, setting, passing and defense.

*Other

(revised September 23, 2019)