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History

Northeast Women's Volleyball Club League (NWVCL) was founded by Jung Park of UConn during 1999-2000 season with eight schools from Northeast region. NWVCL provides an opportunity for club players to play competitive collegiate club volleyball in fun, safe and organized environment. The league puts emphasis on sportsmaship and having fun while playing competitive volleyball. The league also focuses on officials training in northeast region and running professionally organized tournaments.

Now celebrating its tenth year, NWVCL has grown to 48 teams in two divisions (Red & Blue) and sending as many as 16 teams to Club Nationals. The league had two teams (Penn State and Rutgers) finishing in the top 10 at Club Nationals during 2002-2003. In 2004, University of Pennsylvania won the Silver Division at Club Nationals (becoming the first league team to win a division title at nationals). In 2005, Cornell (9^th) and Penn (17^th) finished in the top 20 at Nationals.

In 2009 league championships, Boston University defeated the defending '08 champions Penn State in one of the most entertaining finals in our history. BU has won two league titles while Penn State leads the overall tally with five titles.

Over the years many of NWVCL former players have gone on to coaching juniors, high school and college teams. It is common to see former club players coming back to help out their club teams.

2009-2010 season will be an important season nationally as NCVF (National Collegiate Volleyball Federation) has partnered with USA Volleyball to host our Club National Championships. With new club teams popping up everywhere in our region as well as nationally, the future of collegiate club is truly bright.

There are now over 240 Women's and 400 Men's club teams in the country, playing at very high level. If you are interested in participating in a collegiate club program around New England and Northeast Region, contact Jung Park who serves as the commissioner of both NECVL and NWVCL. Check out WWW.NECVL.ORG and WWW.NWVCL.ORG.

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