5 Ways to Get Your Club Involved in Dig Pink!
With club volleyball season underway, Side-Out is challenging the club volleyball community to unite together behind Dig Pink® and raise $250,000 for stage IV breast cancer research. In doing this, Side-Out also hopes to impact athletes that participate, building them as people through their Dig Pink experience. To help get club volleyball parents, coaches, and […]
Status Report: Assist Project 2016
For three years now, we’ve been conducting the Assist Project as our way to involve club volleyball teams and continue to further our cause. To participate in the project this year, teams were challenged with creating one card, to be donated to local cancer patients, and raising $50 per player. If the whole team completed […]
The Assist Club Team Feature: Long Island Volleyball Club
Long Island Volleyball Club raised almost $4,000 for The Assist Project as they become an Assist Club Team Feature! They created a special page on their website just for The Assist Project and six of their teams created cards for patients. They took time to answer some questions about how they managed the project; if […]
The Assist Project is a Success!
During last year’s club season, The Side-Out Foundation introduced the hospital card project, where club teams would be able to create cards for cancer patients at tour stops and on their own, and send them to The Side-Out Foundation to be distributed to hospitals and cancer centers around the country. This season, we wanted to […]
The Assist Club Feature Team: PJVBC
Puyallup Juniors Volleyball Club (PJVBC) in Puyallup, WA, was one of the first clubs to sign up for The Assist Project, and one of the first to earn The Assist Project t-shirts! They took the time to answer several questions about how they incorporated card making and fundraising into their club season. What kinds of team […]
Chewbacca’s Satchel
This is a story about a 13s club team called the Vipers, a stuffed wookie’s inspirational satchel, and me. Coaching is always full of surprises. I Heart Chewbacca When I was a kid my friends and I would go to the movies and we would pick the character that we most closely resemble. Star Wars was a […]
2015 Dig Pink Tour Stops
With club volleyball in the full swing of things, Dig Pink® is again making it’s impact across the country. As the color pink begins to spread throughout tournament sites everywhere, we keep getting the question “What are the 2015 Dig Pink Tour Stops for The Side-Out Foundation this season?” Well that time has arrived. This […]
The Perfect Assist
The assist is one of the most important and underappreciated stats in sports. It’s the largest contributor to scoring, and without assists, the games would not be as productive or compelling. Whether it’s a volleyball player setting the ball for a kill by a hitter or a point guard getting the ball down low to […]
Anne Hughes Memorial Scholarship Winner
On Sunday, April 13th, The Side-Out Foundation and the Chesapeake Region Volleyball Association (CHRVA) announced the winner of the Anne Hughes Memorial Scholarship. Sarah Kenneweg, a senior at Poolesville High School in Maryland and a player for Platform Volleyball Club, was awarded the $1,000 grant, to be applied toward her college expenses. Below is Sarah’s account of her experience […]
