The Club currently has over 30 active volleyball members, who are directly registered with the Western Province Volleyball Union. Its membership is extended through its surrounding schools and communities.

OUR MISSION
To develop talented volleyball players to become elite/world class athletes, good ambassadors, and role models within their communities of the Western Cape and South Africa.

OUR VISION
Excellence in Volleyball

OUR PURPOSE
To focus on youth development within the Mitchells Plain and surrounding communities. While many of the players within the club come from Mitchell’s Plain, the Club has membership from as far as Steenberg, Retreat, Heideveld and Eerste River. The All Star Saints Volleyball Club offers its members participation in a number of Western Province Volleyball competitions during the year. These competitions include:

Volleyball Competitions Activities

• WPVU Premier League for male and female players
• WPVU Top Four Tournament, which features the top four male and top four female teams in an early, pre-season competition.
• National Inter-Provincial Tournament
• National Volleyball South Africa (VSA) Development Cup Championship
• WPVU Knockout competition
• WPVU Open Tournament
• WPVU Beach Volleyball Competitions

Human Growth Potential and Development Opportunities
The All Star Saints Volleyball Club offers its members the following:

• Life Skills Training on a continuous basis.
• Strong growth supportive structure for all players
• Providing good quality coaching methods. (world class initiatives)
• Providing good balance and excellence in sport and academia.
• Providing a platform for personal growth and self- confidence and belief.
• Providing a “PLACE TO BELONG”
• Providing a positive environment from negative surroundings/situations

High Performance Academy
In addition to the club’s involvement in local and national competitions, about 75% of our players are also participating in the High Performance Program offered by Western Province Volleyball, with the main partner being the Western Cape Sports Academy. This is a development and coaching program, which is implemented in schools and communities across the Western Cape.

Geographical Area the Club Covers
The geographical area that the All Star Saints Volleyball Club covers is mainly Mitchell’s Plain as well as surrounding areas such as Heideveld, Retreat and Steenberg. We have also been fortunate to have players involved from as far as Eerste River. Currently we are one of two volleyball clubs that are actively involved in these areas and we plan to extend our footprint to other neighbouring areas such as Khayalitsha, Samora Marcel, and areas where  it make practical sense to  start  volleyball initiatives.

Providing a positive and constructive social alternative.
We want to increase the rate of sports development, in conjunction with Western Province Volleyball Union. We would also want our players to continue to participate competitively at a local, national and international level. The club provides a platform for excellence through which we aim to develop competent sports individuals and to make a contribution to human and social development potential within the broader context of South Africa.

Track record of players and management associated with the club currently.
The achievements  to date  has been  phenomenal with  by  many  of the younger  players  have already  participated frequently at  international  competitions. This matched by individuals in management of the club who have done duty in various capacities, such coaching and management of high level representative teams.

Allow me to introduce you to the Amathuba Volleyball Club.

Amathuba meaning 'Opportunity'

The club was birthed in  January 2005  in the greater Western Cape Northern Suburbs, covering areas such as Delft, KuilsRiver, Kraaifontein and Belhar. We started out with one team, participating in the Western Province volleyball Union. Most of our members have a wealth of experience  and have participated at Provincial Level, as well as representing our country at international tertiary/student volleyball events. This include representing the sport on various sport bodies in the region.

OUR MISSION

• To help develop a dying sport that's been around for many years
• Enthuse teachers to teaching volleyball at school level again by coaching them first so they can teach the learners
• Teaching children the importance of sport so they can have better health and well-being
• Make use of the sport to help get children off the street and possibly drugs as well
• Being role models to show success through what we do and what we have achieved so they too can aspire to be successful
• Create opportunity for the kids to travel the world through sport participation

OUR GOALS

• To be the top club in the country
• To travel overseas to play against other clubs (professionally)
• To play in the African Club Championships
• To grow volleyball so players can be rewarded financially
• To enrich those who have no hope in themselves

Our focus is development, skills transfer and active volleyball participation, as such, improving the quality of life.Another reason for attracting more members is the influx of new blood. With an unchanging membership, play and attitudes may become stagnant. An influx of new players changes all that, and the club is likely to be healthier for it. In addition, more players will lead to increased funding, better facilities and ultimately better players and teams.

The club aims to attract a wide range of learners originating from different cultural backgrounds. The Club takes confined commitment to development of volleyball in terms of aspects such as democracy, equality, sportsmanship, skill, excellence and community building.

The club was founded in 1998 in the Southern Peninsula area. The players were mainly drawn from the Steenberg,Heathfield, Retreat, Lavenderhill and Grassy Park areas. The club was formed to save volleyball in the region, although the area boasted some of the top clubs in the country, during the 1980’s, i.e. Black Panthers, Hurricanes, Retreat and Collegians, none of these clubs had any development programme.

At the beginning of 1998, none of the abovementioned clubs had enough members to register teams with Western Province Volleyball Union. A meeting was held with the remaining players, and the South Peninsula Volleyball club was born. It was decided in that meeting that an intensive development programme had to be embarked upon if we were to maintain a strong club. We started recruiting youngsters from the surrounding schools and coached them every Monday and Wednesday at the Cafda hall and on Saturdays at the Rooikraans hall in Grassy Park... Most of them had no formal coaching at that stage. After working with these youngsters for two years, we registered them with the WPVU as a junior team, but because there was no junior, or second division they had to play against the seniors. Some of the players in that team were, Randy Williams , Taryn Papier, Tercia Daniels, Sheena and Shana Abrahams, Safiya Bufkins to mention a few.

Our efforts finally paid off in 2003, when we won the senior Western Province volleyball league, with a team that consisted of 80% of the players under the age of 18. Two of our players won the MVP award at the end of that season. Tercia Daniels won the junior MVP and Lamees Abrahams won the senior MVP at the tender age of 16.

We are a club that has a serious development programme, so in the event that our senior players stop playing due to work or pregnancy we have our junior players to replace them. We are currently building our third crop of players and have some real talented 12 and 13 year old girls, and are also preparing our forth crop who are between ages 9-11.

In 2005 we realised that starting to develop a player at the age of 14 was a bit late and decided to move the club from Cafda to Seawinds (Lavernder Hill) right next to Zerilda Park primary school who we adopted. This paid off tremendously, we brought the sports co-ordinater from the school into the club and taught him to coach and in return he identifies the talent at the school and then brings them to the club. We are now producing up to 50% of the school volleyball u/12 and u/13 provincial girls teams and identifying them early so that if they go to a high school that does not have Volleyball they still stay in the code because of their involvement with the club.

Last year we took our development even further by enrolling 8 of the 15 grade sevens at one school, (Steenberg High) which means that school will immediately have a competitive team with the added bonus of being fed by new players from Zerilda park primary every year. An unexpected spin off is that the players who did not go to Steenberg high went to Zwaanswyk high and that means that there is another potential school team and that they still all come and practise at the club on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5 to 7 pm.

To this day we can proudly say that we have manufactured all our players and have never asked players from other clubs to come and join us. Players manufactured at this club include.

We have been participating in the Union’s top four tournament since we started the club, and also ended amongst the top four teams in the league

Club Info:
1. South Peninsula Volleyball Club, 14 Verdi Street Steenberg 7945
2. Contact persons: Mark Williams Cell: 082 728 7789 Estelle Williams Cell: 083 343 7552 / 021 702 2142
3. Email: mrwilliams@iafrica.com
4. Training venue: Seawinds Multipurpose Hall Seawinds Steenberg
5. Club colours are black and gold. This year we are celebrating our tenth year anniversary and have a few events planed, which we will publicise shortly.

 

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