Less than three months remain before the Santa Monica Beach Club players, parents, coaches and administrators uproot to Reno for the annual year-end Volleyball Festival. The week-long event caps the season off in style with our opening ceremonies costumes, the Talent Show and Barbeque and, last but certainly not least, five fun-filled days of volleyball.

The Festival has proven a veritable stomping ground for our teams in recent years: no club has seen more consistent success at the Festival than SMBC.

In both 2006 and 2007, an SMBC team competed in the Gold Championship Bracket (the "Sweet Sixteen") in every age group offered: 12's, 13's, 14's, 15's, 16's, 17's and 18's. No other club in the country can boast of such incredibly consistent performance across the wide spectrum of their teams.

Needless to say, we are expecting great things from our teams this Festival with several squads in serious contention to win their age divisions outright.

So keep working hard SMBC players.