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Our Future Beach Volleyball Stars

December 15th, 2008
Our Future Beach Volleyball Stars
Dig the Beach Magazine 2007 issue
By: Cindy Phillips

It appears that Beach Volleyball is here to stay! If the inaugural season of Club Beach Dig is any indication, the future of Beach Volleyball in Florida couldn’t be brighter! Club Beach Dig has been created to fill the ever-increasing demand of juniors wanting to learn and play the sport of Beach Volleyball. Over the past 2 years, I have watched my business of coaching beach volleyball to both children and adults grow beyond my wildest expectations. There was no place to go but up!!! With just two weeks of practice and one tournament under our belts, our enrollment is already more than double what we projected! We have new members joining weekly and the club has already grown to almost 100 members. Club Beach Dig hosts divisions in Miami, Deerfield Beach and Palm Beach with hopes to expand state wide next summer!

I am excited and honored to be able to share my knowledge, experience and infinite passion for this sport with our future Indoor and Beach Volleyball Superstars. Club Beach Dig is pleased to team up with Florida’s biggest and most successful Beach Volleyball Tour. Our exclusive partnership with the Zephyrhills "Dig The Beach" Series and Spalding King of the Beach will allow our members to learn and compete in the greatest sport on the planet, right along side the best beach volleyball players in Florida. It seems the stigma that Beach and Indoor volleyball don’t compliment each other has finally disappeared. More and more indoor coaches are seeing and believing in the benefits of having their players play and train on the beach during the summer. Many coaches are actually encouraging their kids to hit the beach to improve their skills, speed, agility, vertical jump and ball control. Juniors will return to the hard court as stronger and more well rounded athletes. They are competing and training in matches where there were once 6 people on the court and now there are only 2! That means more running, more jumping, more serving, more passing, more setting more hitting... more everything! This all boils down to better volleyball players. It only makes sense!

Here is an exert from the Club Beach Dig Mission Statement: "This is our chance to change the future of Beach Volleyball! Through aggressive and disciplined training and coaching, we will mold our kids into winners on the sand and off! They will return to indoor faster, stronger and better than when they came to us, but they will also return with a new love and respect for Beach Volleyball. On the sand we will strive to produce the best Junior Beach Volleyball Players in Florida. We will improve their skills, mental toughness and conditioning, but more importantly, we will teach them, and show them HOW TO WIN! That is why WE all play sports. That is why we are here.
We are all competitors at heart and that is what we will instill in every Club Beach Dig member."

Cindy Phillips - Club Beach Dig Director
I didn’t think I would ever find a passion greater than actually competing in this amazing sport. That was, until I started coaching juniors and saw the potential and the future of our sport in their wide, eager eyes.

www.beachdig.com "It’s better at the beach"