Tournament Directors

Hosting a sanctioned volleyball event through the Evergreen Region Volleyball Association (ERVA) provides organizers, participants, and facilities with the support and protections of USA Volleyball.

Whether you’re organizing a tournament, league, scrimmage, clinic, or special event, sanctioning helps ensure a safe, consistent, and professionally managed experience for everyone involved.

Why sanction your event with ERVA?

Sanctioned events recieve important benefits. Click below to see what is included.

Sanctioned events receive important benefits, including:

  • Liability and secondary accident insurance coverage for participants and approved facilities.
  • Eligibility verification to ensure participants meet USA Volleyball membership requirements.
  • Access to official USA Volleyball rules and competition standards.
  • Recognition as an approved ERVA/USAV event.
  • Support from the Evergreen Region office throughout the sanctioning process.
  • Additional resources such as region prize contributions, event system management access, event format support, use of region equipment/other resources etc.

Choose your event type

Select the option below that best describes the event you would like to host to review and submit a request to sanction your event.

For sanctioned girls junior tournaments included in the official ERVA Results Seeding Guide, including one-day, multi-day, and club-hosted competition events.

Use the link below to review required steps to host a tournament, how to submit a tournament request and access additional resources.

Learn more about Junior Girls Tournaments

For boys tournaments, leagues, scrimmages, and other sanctioned competition opportunities.

Apply for a Boys Event

For beginner and developmental programs in the 12 and under age division. These events are designed to support athlete growth and provide age-appropriate competition experiences.

Apply for a Youth Event

For adult tournaments, leagues, and competitive events for participants age 18 and older.

Apply for an Adult Event

Need Help?
Not sure which category fits your event? Contact the Evergreen Region office at office@evergreenregion.org and we’ll help you determine the correct sanctioning path before you apply.

Event Resources

ERVA provides various resources to support your event from printable event materials, tournament formats, insurance coverage and much more. See our information below to access the various resources available to your event.

Access to resources, forms and next steps to host a junior girls tournament.

Junior Girls Resources

  • As a Region of USA Volleyball, ERVA is able to provide member benefits to our Member Clubs, including:
    • Facility Evidence of Coverage Insurance for your event venue
    • Individual Sports Accident Coverage for participants during all ERVA/USAV sanctioned events
    • Enforcement of participant eligibility, requiring all individuals involved in sanctioned activities to meet ERVA/USAV Membership and Eligibility Guidelines, as well as adhere to any other applicable policies in effect during the sanctioned event timeframe.
    • Club/Organization Activation & Director Eligibility MUST be submitted & current for insurance certificate requests to be fulfilled.
    • ACTIVE clubs/organizations may submit insurance certificate requests for evidence of coverage, additional insured and endorsements as needed. Please allow 24-48 business hours after submission for ERVA staff to respond.
Request Insurance Certificate

  • Tutorials
    • Otto Event, Arbiter, Seeding Tournament & more
  • Event Resources
    • Emergency Action Plan Template
    • Tournament Information Packet Template
    • Coaches Meeting Outline
    • Scoresheets, Lineup Sheets, Libero Tracking
    • Court Numbers
    • Scoring Tips
  • Event Policy Signage
    • Spectator Code of Conduct
    • Purple Card Policy
    • SafeSport/MAAP
Tournament Director Google Drive

Access to Excel workbooks for tournaments with 6-32 teams. Tournament directors may use these formats to add in their teams & seed their event.

Workbook contains pools, brackets, play schedules, printable pool sheets etc.

Snake Seeded Formats
Power Seeded Formats

Need Help?
Contact the Evergreen Region office at office@evergreenregion.org