ABC APOLLO VOLLEYBALL CLUB

ABC Apollos 2025-26​​

Welcome! We are excited to kick off the club season with some camps and tryouts.​​​

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Boys Tryouts

*Plan to attend tryouts on all 3 days. We will have one 18s team, and potentially one 16s team if we have enough of the right players/positions to field one.

- All sessions hosted at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, across from Sunset HS. Address is 14175 NW Cornell Rd, Portland OR 97229)

- Sat Oct 4th, 5:30-7pm

- Supplemental Tryout Sun Oct 5th, 5:30-7pm

- Supplemental Tryout Tues Oct 7th, 5:30-7pm. Final team(s) decided Tuesday evening.

Register HERE.

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Important to bring with you to tryouts:

1. Proof of CEVA tryout membership.

2. Completed Medical Release form​. 

 

- Club Cost is $1900, $700 is due at the mandatory parent meeting on Thursday October 9th. Meeting is at Prince of Peace Church 6-7pm.

- The goal is to play 8 tournaments over the course of the season.

- Practice Tuesday & Thursday each week 5:30-7pm until the girls teams start, then move to 4-5:30pm.

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Fall Girls Camps 

(all sessions hosted at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, across from Sunset HS. Address is 14175 NW Cornell Rd, Portland OR 97229)

***Text Coach Salness at 503-318-6701 to confirm there is room in the camp you wish to attend***​​

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Session 5: Pre-tryout Camp for MS Girls (14U)

…Dates TBA ASAP

...Time TBA (25-26 CEVA Fall League Membership needed, link provided below)​

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In order to attend a fall camp there are only 3 steps:

1. Obtain a CEVA Fall League membership. It is only available through our link HERE.

2. Text Coach Salness at 503-318-6701 to get confirmation there is room in the camp, we can only accept 20 kids per session. Then email Coach Salness and Coach Erica Monson at ladsalness2@gmail.com and e93monson@gmail.com with the camp session you wish to attend, the player’s name, grade/age, CEVA membership #, and a parent name and phone number.

3. Bring the camp fee with you on the first day of camp. This can be cash or a check. Check made out to ABC Apollo. Please put the player’s name in the memo line.

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Club Goals & Philosophy:

This year we anticipate having:

2      14s Girls Teams (Tryouts Nov 9th, time TBA)

2      16s Girls Teams (Tryouts Nov 16th, time TBA

1       18s Girls Team (Tryouts Nov 16th, time TBA)

1       18s Boys Team (Tryouts Oct 4th, 5:30-7pm)

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Practices: Prince of Peace church on Cornell on Tuesday and Thursdays with time slots of 4-5:30, 5:30-7, 7-8:30. Practice times depend on coaches ability to be at practice and when kids get out of school.

Playing Time: We aim for every player to play in every set/match. We believe that if you are going to pay you should play in every set/match.              *Exception if the match goes to a 3rd and deciding set the coach is able to just play the players who are playing the best. When we run out of subs then the coach will leave players in the game who are playing the best. 

All Questions about the program or teams or playing time ALL come to Coach Salness who is the director and founder of ABC Apollo (26 years). The coach's job is to coach the kids. Salness's job is that of setting guidelines/policies and how the program runs. 

Tournaments: The goal is for every team to play in 2 tournaments a month (power league and a friendship tourney). After tryouts we begin practices on Tuesdays & Thursdays each week with the exception of taking time off for Thanksgiving and Christmas break. Power league runs January through April, with regionals ending the season late April or early May. 

We plan for each team to play in at least 1 travel overnight 2-3 day tourney. We are willing to add more but only if the team and parents request that.  The goal is to keep costs down. Base cost for the season is $1900/2000 with any travel/hotel costs extra. When we do travel we suggest that the parents and players stay as a family (supervision and to help cut costs).

Attendance Policy: ABC Apollo has always supported multi-sport athletes. If the player has a direct conflict with school Basketball, Track, Cross County (etc), they will still play in every set and match. We just need to know what sport and what season at tryouts. We can’t have 6 softball players on one team. ​​

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