School Volleyball events organised in Slovenia break participation records

Volleyball activities in Slovenian clubs and schools organised for children between eight and 15 years of age are slowly coming to an end for the 2023/2024 school year. 

The Volleyball club ŽOK Šentvid in cooperation with the Volleyball Federation of Slovenia (OZS) successfully hosted the second edition of the so-called ‘Dragon’s tournament’ under the auspices of the CEV School Project ‘Play Volleyball – Grow with it’. The event which took place in the first weekend of April, brought together over 200 kids in the U12 category representing 32 teams from across the country. Click here for further info. 

Two weeks later, 1,100 young Slovenian volleyball talents in the U14 category from a record-breaking 96 teams were showing their skills at the Savinjska Valley Cup where 177 matches were played throughout the day on 17 courts set up in Šempeter, Prebold, Petrovče, Griže, Žalec, and Braslovče. Click here for more details. 

In April the Volleyball Federation of Slovenia published a tender inviting Slovenian volleyball and beach volleyball clubs to apply for the organisation of one-day summer beach volleyball festivals. TPV Volley Novo mesto which hosted such an event already in 2022 and 2023 applied for the 2024 edition as well, together with OK Celje and OK Žužemberk, which will host young beach volleyball players from 10 to 15 years of age for the first time. The tender is still running.

After VBO-Digitalno zobozdravstvo joined the CEV School Project as a general sponsor ahead of the 2023/2024 school year, another sponsorship was confirmed for the project. This will be officially presented later this month.