Club Announcements
 2010-2011

     Congratulations to Coach Shelbee Younce for being named to the Ventura Star's All County College Team for her Volleyball Season at Ventura College.

      Congratulations to CI players Cheyenne Godinez, VHS, Brooke Ranger, BHS, and Alysha Rivera, OHS, for being named to the Ventura Star's All County Volleyball Team.  Cheyenne has accepted a scholarship to play at Indiana Wesleyan.  Brooke has accepted a scholarship to play at UC Riverside.  Next fall Alysha will compete in her senior season at OHS.  Congratulations also to former CI players Lauran Bevan, Hannah Hill and Amy Lanski for being named to the Star's All County Team.

     Congratulations 18 Boys on your first place finish at your qualifing tournament.

     A BIG Thank You to the nearly 200 boys and girls that have attended our tryouts and our 12s clinics this year.  What a great turnout.  Thank you so much for all your support.  Because of the great turnout we have been able to put together several really strong teams this year.  If you missed our tryouts and are interested in playing please contact Billy Arnold at 642-0440 X1.  We have an opening or two in most age groups.

      Please welcome  Jennifer Probert who has joined our coaching staff.  She will be working with 18s as well as serving as our Hitting, Blocking and Jump Training Coach.  See her bio on the coaches page.

      Congratulations to Channel Islands VBC Setter Brooke Ranger on accepting a full ride athletic scholarship to Division I UC Riverside to continue her volleyball career.  Brooke has played for CI for the past three club seasons.  Way to go Brooke! 

      Congratulations are also in order for VHS Players Cheyenne Godinez and Amy Lanski.  Cheyenne has made a verbal commitment to play volleyball at Indiana Wesleyan and Amy has made a verbal commitment to play volleyball at DePaul.  Great job Cheyenne and Amy.

      CIVBC Updates:   Photo Page Updated with Girls Volleyball Festival and Boy Classic Photos.  Check them out.  Forms and Fundraising pages also updated with current year information.  Tryout dates announced  Tryout Flyer Here.  Free Clinics for boys and girls Free Clinics Flyer Here.    

        Please check out former Channel Islands Volleyball Club player and current member of the USA Mens Volleyball Team, Oxnards own Alfee Reft.  Alfee got his start in volleyball with CI back in 1993, he than played four years at Oxnard High School, graduated from Hawaii in 2006 and is now with the USA team.  Way to go Alfee.  You can follow him on USA Volleyball or Facebook

      **** There have been a few changes in the management team of CI.  Some of our prior directors and coaches are no longer  associated with Channel Islands Volleyball Club.  Those of us that remain here at CI are busy planning for this season.  We have  added some very qualified coaches to our staff and have put in place a few program changes that will greatly benefit our players.  We  look forward to providing our players and their parents with the quality club volleyball experience they have come to expect over the  years.  CI has been the oldest and largest club in Ventura County serving the community since 1982.  We hope that you will continue to provide the support to our program that you have in the past.  Please consider us before committing to any other club, you will not be disappointed.  In fact you will see that we are able to provide all that you will need in a competitive club environment, with all the bells and whistles, at a cost greatly below our competitors' that offer similar experiences.  Please check back in the next few weeks and we will have our tryout dates and times posted.  Please click here for a tryout flyer.

        We are very happy to announce that CIVBC has merged with Ventura Volleyball Club and Ventura West Volleyball Club and that several of their coaches have joined the CI staff.  A big CI welcome to the coaches, players and families of those two fine volleyball clubs from our CI family.  Ventura VBC Founder and Director and long time Ventura High School Coach Debbie Litten, will serve as a director and coach our 17Premier team.  Doug Messner founder and director of Ventura West VBC will coach our 14Premier team.  We are also very fortunate to have added Ventura County's legendary coach Maurice Shimabuku to our staff and are very excited to have him working with our coaches and players.  And we are so very pleased to announce that long time CI coaches Stacy Miller and Mike Arnold have returned to their volleyball home and will coach our 18Premier team.  Please check out our coaches page to see the other highly qualified coaches that have joined our staff recently, Chris Bohney longtime Nordhoff Boys and Girls Coach, David Holl OHS Assistant Varsity Coach,  Nicole Hardesty Ventura VBC, Jessica Ornelas Vonderheide DeAnza VBC, and so many others.  Add those to the wonderful coaches returning from last year and you can see why were so excited for the future here at CI.  Boys tryouts continue Sunday, Ventura College, 4-6 PM.  See "read more" below for flyer and info.

        Congratulations to all of our teams that just completed their 2010 club season.  What a great year it has been.  Our two boys teams did great at the 4 day Anaheim Boys Classic in mid June.  Our two 12s and under teams learned a lot this year and were very competitive in the tournaments they attended this year taking 1st place in a few of them.  We took 9 girls teams to the annual Volleyball Festival in Phoenix and what a great time was had by all.  Please check out the photos on the Events/Festival page.  Special thanks to Dave Betran for running around all week and taking pictures of all of our teams.  We had a great pool party, bbq and outdoor movie night at the Embassy Suites in Phoenix the night we arrived and our Annual Club Banquet and Karaoke Contest the next night was a tremendous success.  The teams really tried to out do each other in the contest.  Congrats to the 15Premier team, winners of the team Karaoke this year.  Big congratulations to Mike Hertenstein and his 14 Premier team for the highest finish at the festival for our club.  Runners up were the 18 Premier and the 15 Premier.

         Board of Directors

2009-2010 :

Allie Eason selected as Channel League Softball MVP

Article from the Ventura County Star

Also, congratulations to Allie Eason and Kelsey Phipps for advancing to the CIF Semi Finals in Softball. Below is the write up in ESPN Cal High Sports about Allie's game winning heroics.

 Allie Eason, Buena (Ventura, Calif.)
Just a simple stolen base normally isn’t enough to get you listed in our weekly stat stars but in the top of the 13th inning against Ocean View she stole home for the game’s winning run in a 2-1 victory in the CIFSS Div. IV quarterfinals.

 Allie and Kelsey we are very proud of your off court accomplishments    

Channel Islands Finishes Strong
Article from the Ventura County Star

 American Sports Center

This year the staff at the American Sports Center (ASC) has decided to charge an entry fee to player families to enter the gym to watch games.  This decision was completely against the wishes of both SCVA and Volleyball Clubs across Southern California.  SCVA asked that all clubs explain to parents/families that this decision was not theirs but came from ASC staff. 

 Fees:  Adults - 3.00  and Seniors - 2.00  Players, Coaches and Club Directors will not be charged.