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KNVBC relies on the integrity of the individual teams for its success and continuation. We want team coaches and managers that honor the game and keep the best interest of the players first and foremost and have a track record for doing so. Teams interested in joining Kansas Networks should contact either Stuart Johnson, Angie Bittner, Kevin Bittner or John Zwiesler through our contacts page

Kansas Networks is a Topeka based umbrella club for independent volleyball teams playing in the Heart of America region of USA volleyball. Kansas Networks does not form teams or hold club tryouts. Invidual team may hold tryouts and we will advertise those tryouts on this website. 

  " Sports remains a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came to understand that fear can be tamed; that on a team the whole is greater  than the sum of it's parts; and the ability to be heroic lies, to a suprising degree, within."

- Susan Casey-
(trailer to House of Volleyball film "Life of Mine")

The Club

Kansas Networks is a group of independent teams. Most of the team duties and decisions are up to the individual teams. This results in a lot of variety of team goals and personality.  The strength of the club is our ability to network to help each other reach our individual goals. We hope that this format will result in more opportunities for kids to play and enjoy youth volleyball at every level.  

What the Club Does

The club holds an annual coaches/team managers meeting to help guide teams through the team management process. We hold a referee and score-keeping clinic as is required by all USA volleyball officials. We assist in organizing a local IMPACT clinic for new coaches to get IMPACT certified. We register all KNVBC USAV members and teams. We handle the entry process for teams participating in national level tournaments. We will have an instructional coaches clinic and our newest addition, this website. All this for a minimal fee.

What Our Teams Do

Form teams (the club does not form teams or hold club tryouts), Provide coaches, assistant coaches and team managers (sometimes all in one), Find and select players, acquire gym space for practices, pick and acquire team uniforms, pick a team name, decide on their level of play, Decide on how many and what tournaments to enter, register for tournaments and set team fees along with a slew of team organization issues too numerous to mention. Our main goal is to keep the process as simple, accessable and as affordable as possible so that more kids get to enjoy the great, fun game of volleyball.