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Directors & Coaches

Welcome to the 2024-2025 season for Junior volleyball in the Ohio Valley Region. Thank you for providing opportunities for our youth to participate in USAV-sanctioned volleyball programs. We welcome the opportunity to be able to serve your needs for non-interscholastic volleyball participation.

Program Directors

The OVR Girls and Boys Program Directors can answer any other questions you may have about participating.

Girls Indoor Director
Beth Sander
[email protected] 

Boys Indoor Director
Matt Mihelic
[email protected]

Beach Director
Joe Jackson
[email protected] 

Directors

When booking lodging for OVR-run events, it’s important to understand the different housing policies and how they apply:

Stay to Play Policy:

  • Requirement: Teams must stay in the predesignated hotel block provided for the event. Required by many USAV qualifiers, AAU, or JVA events.
  • Applicability: Only required in the OVR at events hosted by the Cedar Point Sports Facility.
  • Condition: Required for OVR teams more than 90 miles from Cedar Point while playing at Cedar Point.

Stay and Save Policy:

  • Encouragement: Teams are encouraged to stay in the hotels listed for the event.
  • Applicability: All OVR events that are held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
  • Benefit: Guarantees the lowest booking cost for hotel rooms within the booking block for the event dates. Clubs, teams, and families save more money and benefit more from booking through the OVR-provided block than booking independently with hotels listed in the block.

The OVR partners with EventConnect to find the lowest hotel costs for our families to stay at when attending OVR events. EventConnect provides an easy-to-use accommodations portal and offers the best available group rates. Teams can instantly hold rooms with the lodging partner of their choice on EventConnect’s webpage. All room blocks and reservations are managed through EventConnect.

OVR Clubs and Parents:

The OVR needs to accurately account for the number of rooms nights utilized by your clubs and teams. This will enable us to secure dates with the Greater Columbus Convention Center further into the future. Currently we can sign a contract only one year in advance. This has caused us to be bumped from some of our preferred weekends in the past by other events.

Use the links below to reserve your rooms for these events. Once you have registered for the event, your Club Rep will receive an email from EventConnect with links to the hotels and to your Club Dashboard. Please do not call our hotel partners to book directly. If you have already booked directly, please call us to assist with moving your room block into the EventConnect system, where you will be able to easily make changes and adjustments to your reservations. Thank you for your help in this endeavor.

For any assistance with the accommodations process, please contact EventConnect Customer Success at 1-888-723-2064 or [email protected].

Helpful EventConnect Resources: