Kathy DeBoer will retire as executive director of AVCA on June 30

DeBoer has been a tireless advocate of the game, working to create extra alternatives for gamers and coaches. For AVCA, the mantra of “Make Volleyball Matter” bore fruit in numerous methods throughout his 17 years because the affiliation’s govt director.

“The legacy of management is measured within the development of these we serve. Keegan Prepare dinner, AVCA Chairman and head coach of ladies’s volleyball in Minnesota, Kathy DeBoer has served the game of volleyball and AVCA with nice ardour and persistence for practically 20 years. “In that point and beneath his steerage, the game of volleyball has grown and Kathy has impressed and supported numerous leaders within the sport.”

From AVCA, throughout DeBoer’s tenure:

— AVCA noticed membership improve from 3,200 in 2006 to eight,800 in October 2022.

— Elevated congress attendance from 1,200 to only beneath 2,800 and elevated the quantity of gross sales and programming on the occasion

— Added partnerships with 21 state volleyball coaches associations, 35 Districts of USA Volleyball, and Junior Volleyball Affiliation

— Supplied a $150,000 start-up grant to the First Level Volleyball Basis to “fund fundraising” so as to add boys’ faculty and highschool boys’ volleyball applications. For the reason that basis of the inspiration, the variety of college college applications has elevated from 166 to 264.

— Initiated the method of including seashore volleyball to the NCAA Rising Sports activities checklist for ladies, which led to seashore volleyball changing into an NCAA championship sport in 2016. In 2023, 180 colleges have world-class seashore groups, and AVCA has additionally established the Males’s Faculty Seashore. The alliance will assist males’s seashore applications.

— Created/directed the primary 4 varsity ladies’s seashore championships (2012-15), the AVCA Junior Faculty Seashore Championships (launched in 2018), and the AVCA Fall Universities Seashore Championships (first held in 2022).