Welcome to the 2025 season! Registration of returning players is underway and our Tryout Waitlist is now open. Tryouts will be in the beginning of April. Register on our Tryout Waitlist and we will contact athletes to set up a date and time. For more information see our Registration Instructions section below and navigate to out Registration Instructions Page.
Also thanks to all our coaches, players and parents for making 2024 a great success! In 2024, our current and former players won our second national championship and our first international gold medal! We also sent three Sandsharks off to play in College and had two more commit to play next year. Sandsharks has grown from 25 players in 2019 to 80 players last year.
Check out the incredible accomplishments that Sandshark have achieved. From our player who competed for Team USA at the 2021and 2023 FIVB U21 World Championships in Thailand and was the USAVolleyball and AVP Beach Boys 18U National Champion, to taking home many medals from the AVP Championships, to placing multiple players on the National Team or National Team Developmental Program, to winning about 30 total medals each of the last three years at tournaments all over the East Coast, our players rock it! A special congrats to our four new college recruits this year!
Sandsharks offers two main levels of training. Our Young Guns Program is for the littles 8-13. No skills required. In summer, when school is out, sessions are one hour twice a week, choice of Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday 4-5 pm. Mini tournaments Mondays 12-1:30. (April to September, $250 for returning players, $300 for new players)
Our Club Program is for athletes 13-18 years old. Three practices a week when school is out. All players practice Monday and Wednesday 10-12, Advanced Sunday 5-7, Intermediate Thursday 5-7, mini tournaments Tuesday 5-7. (April to September, $400 for returning players, $450 for new players)
When school is in session, we generally practice on Sundays and Thursdays weather permitting starting mid-April, weather permitting and based on demand.
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Welcome to Sandsharks! We are currently registering returning players and are also accepting new athletes to our Tryout Waitlist. Tryouts will occur in the beginning of April. For information on how to sign up, please click on the link below or navigate to our Registration Instructions page. (You will have to have or purchase a USA Volleyball membership).
Signing up for our Tryout Waitlist will also entitle you to attend two sessions for free in addition to your Tryout! This will allow athletes the chance to try beach volleyball.
We wish we could coach every kid who wants to learn the game. However, we are constrained by the availability of coaches, don’t want to overcrowd existing sessions, and are limited by our permit with the Town of Dewey Beach to 60 participants.
Please text Coach Jon at (301) 346-8850 to discuss your child, the options available, or to set up a date and time to attend a free session. We want to hear from you!
Sandsharks will offer intra-club mini tournaments on many Monday for Young Guns from 12-1:30 and Tuesdays for Club Level from 5-7. Sandshark players are also very strongly encouraged to find partners both within and outside the club and to compete in full and half day tournaments run by USAVolleyball, the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP,) and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). Many of these tournaments are local (Rehoboth and Ocean City) while others require travel to New Jersey, Virginia Beach, and beyond. Sandsharks will post tournaments on TeamSnap. For more info and schedules check our Tournaments page.
Our coaches are experienced, certified, and background screened to assure the safety of our junior participants. All Sandsharks coaches are members of USA Volleyball, the the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of volleyball in the United States and recognized as such by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). All Sandsharks coaches have completed training requirements mandated by USA Volleyball.
Sandsharks is a non-profit 501(c3) so 100% of your donations are tax deductable! Each year over 80% of our spending goes directly to coaching, equipment, player awards, T-shirts, donations, and fun activities for our volleyeball family! Every donation helps our players succeed.