{"id":9724,"date":"2018-08-11T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:30:45","slug":"triumph-volleyball-academy-will-finally-begin-club-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/triumph-volleyball-academy-will-finally-begin-club-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumph Volleyball Academy will finally begin club play"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After spending the last seven years building its brand through its sand court programs, Triumph Volleyball Academy will begin boys volleyball club play this year.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s been in the works to start a club for a long time, since 2011,\u201d TVA founder and director Steve Guglielmana said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had interest in doing club from players, parents and coaches for quite a few years. We\u2019ve never had enough numbers to sustain it. We could have done it two years ago, but we knew it would have been just for the one year. Nate (Perez) and I wanted to make sure that if we want to do it, we can sustain it. The way God worked and opened the doors, this is time to start it. We have enough players, coaches and parents. We have looked at it from different angles. The doors kept opening and we\u2019re going through them, being faithful.\u201d<\/p>

TVA will host open gym from 3-6 p.m. on Aug. 18 in the Madera South East Gym and hold tryouts for its 18-under and 16-under teams Aug. 25 from 3-7 p.m. at Madera South.<\/p>

Leading the 18-under team is Madera South assistant boys volleyball coach and assistant coach to last year\u2019s Fresno City College state championship women\u2019s volleyball team, Nate Perez.<\/p>

\u201cWe want to be the anti-club and have different priorities,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are a faith-centered club. It helps me to have an opportunity to improve myself and grow with the kids, as well. God allows that. You don\u2019t have to be perfect. That\u2019s the primary difference.\u201d<\/p>

Because Guglielmana and Perez wants to be the \u2018different club,\u2019 the cost for the club league season is $710.<\/p>

\u201cOur price-point is about half the cost of clubs in the Fresno area,\u201d Perez said. \u201cA lot of clubs want to have this premise of being a superclub. They are okay with sucking a region\u2019s players out. We are getting the information out to get people to join. We are getting our contact extended with other people promoting us, as well. That\u2019s good to see.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cWe have two different angles of the Triumph Volleyball Academy,\u201d Guglielmana said. \u201cWe have kids who want to play on a club travel team and there\u2019s cost in that. We set a price point to be very affordable among the other clubs around the valley. We\u2019re at $700 for a travel team. We also have an opportunity to be on a practice squad to be a part of the academy, but not have the expense to travel. We\u2019re trying to build a volleyball community, starting with the younger kids.\u201d<\/p>

Tournaments begin in September and will last through December.<\/p>

\u201cThe tournaments are on Saturday and Sunday and the practices will be later in the evening so it should be late enough for the kids to do what they need to do,\u201d Guglielmana said. \u201cThere are clubs out there where their only purpose is volleyball. If we\u2019re going to do this, we want to make sure it\u2019s low stress and provide a high level of competency for those kids that are interested and want to participate.\u201d<\/p>

Guglielmana hopes to be able to host at tournament at Madera South, but to keep costs down, he plans on doing one-day trips to tournaments.<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019re looking to host a tournament at Madera South,\u201d he said .\u201dA majority of the players don\u2019t want to travel so we may get one tournament. Hopefully, down the road, we can get neighboring schools to join us. Volleyball is on the verge of exploding.\u201d<\/p>

Triumph Volleyball Academy will, of course, draw in players from Madera, but Perez and Guglielmana has also gotten feelers from Merced, Modesto, Clovis, Visalia and Central Unified.<\/p>

\u201cWe want to get local kids, but our second look would be from Merced and Modesto,\u201d Guglielmana said. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten interest in kids from Clovis, Visalia and Central Unified. Families are seeing us as a different alternative to club.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cObviously, our price-point is low,\u201d Perez said. \u201cWe\u2019re a good fit for the NYL schools. We\u2019re really excited some of the Clovis parents like us because we\u2019re low on the political and cost end.\u201d<\/p>

TVA advertises itself as a faith-based club. Guglielmana and Perez are more interested in create better people rather than better volleyball players.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be more beneficial to us to build better people and have our kids go out into the communities and transcends more than volleyball,\u201d Perez said. \u201cWe want to develop high character first. That\u2019s going to lend itself to better players on the court, but are good influences in the community as well.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cWith the Triumph Volleyball Academy, we have had contact with kids around the valley that have wanted to play,\u201d Guglielmana said. \u201cWe\u2019re at that point with enough growth and in the area for a while to see the interests from the outside to go with this venture. The level of play is pretty high. The coaching staff is very knowledgeable. We have leaders will pour into these kids\u2019 lives with God\u2019s work and we\u2019re happy about it.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting and waiting (to start club volleyball),\u201d Guglielmana said. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t hold back any more because the dam was ready to break.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After spending the last seven years building its brand through its sand court programs, Triumph Volleyball Academy will begin boys volleyball club play this year. \u201cIt\u2019s been in the works to start a club for a long time, since 2011,\u201d TVA founder and director Steve Guglielmana said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had interest in doing club from players, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":34774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-9724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-organizations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}