How to Sign Up
Industrial Volleyball League, Inc. organizes indoor volleyball competition in the southern San Francisco peninsula and San Jose area. We offer five levels of play in the coed, ranging from recreational play to open competition. There are four levels in the reverse coed, four in the women's and three in the men's (when offered). For more information on the levels, go to League Format.
Our seasons run approximately eight to nine weeks with playoffs. Each league meets once per week and usually consists of six or nine teams (depending upon the number of courts at their facility). Each night, three teams play a 6 game round-robin on one court (team A x team B, team A x team C, team B x team C).
While two teams play, the third team officiates. Each team is required to provide a referee, an umpire and two line judges. Referees are certified by taking a written test prior to their first experience as officials. The IVL provides paid referees and umpires during the playoffs.
You have a team looking for a player? You a player looking for a team? Click on "Free Agent" at the website and check it out. The listings get refreshed approximately every 30 days.
New referees can now take our new online referee test. Take the test, have it corrected online, then bring the printed out results to your league supervisor for certification. See Referee's page for details.
Fall Season starts the week of Sept. 22.
Most playoffs will be the weeks of Nov. 17 and Dec 1.
(No games Thanksgiving Week.)
League Fee: $864/team, payable to IVL, Inc.
Payment format:
$864 team fee if:
If you use Paypal (ivlinc@aol.com) the fee is
$889.
(Their weekly limits do not allow us to use Venmo, sorry.)
Send in your
application
as soon as possible).
New teams:
Tell us a little about your team in the comment section.
Payment deadline is
Tuesday, Sept. 16.
NEW REVERSE COED 6 PERSON TEAMS
should reserve court time for:
Monday, Sept. 15
at
the Academy,
7:15.
NEW COED TEAMS
should reserve court time for:
Tuesday, Sept. 9
or
Tuesday, Sept. 16
or
Wednesday, Sept. 17
at
the Academy,
7:15.
NEW WOMEN'S TEAMS
should reserve court time for:
Thursday, Sept. 11
at
the Academy,
7:15.
NEW MEN'S TEAMS
should reserve court time for:
Tuesday, Sept. 16
at
Cubberley Pavilion,
7:30.
NEW REVERSE COED QUAD TEAMS
should reserve court time for:
Wednesday, Sept. 17
at
Foothill aux. gym,
7:15.
NEW POWER REVERSE COED QUAD TEAMS (new league)
should reserve court time for:
Wednesday, Sept. 10
at
the Academy,
7:15.
EXTRA PRACTICE NIGHT
reserve court time for:
Thursday, Sept. 18
at
Peterson,
7:15.
The
Academy
is at 360 So. Shoreline Blvd. in Mountain View.
Cubberley
is at
4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto.
Foothill
is at
12345 S. El Monte Ave., Los Altos Hills.
Peterson
is at
1380 Rosalia Ave. in Sunnyvale.
(Returning teams may also request court time but preference will be
given to new teams.
Extra space on thursday, Sept. 18 at
.)
E-mail confirmations have usually been sent within 24 hours of receiving your application. With the number of teams now signing up early, please allow an extra day for us to get back to you. If you have not received a personal reply within 48 hours of sending your application, please contact us.
We will e-mail official letters of acceptance (with details of starting time, location, etc.) by noon on Friday, Sept. 19.
League schedules will be available at the web site at the end of the first week of play.
7 or 8 league nights (28-32 games) + 1 playoff night.
More than half of the teams advance to playoffs.
Most leagues also have consolation playoffs.
Starting time at most gyms is usually 7:20.
Foothill
and
Peterson
are 7:05.
Wilcox
will be 8:00.
Gyms generally close at 10:00.
Gyms starting at 8:00 close at 10:30.
Thursday Women's Gold/A
at
the Academy.
Thursday Women's BB Upper Sterling
at
the Academy.
Thursday Women's BB Lower Sterling
at
the Foothill.
Thursday Women's BB Silver
at
Peterson.
Monday Reverse Coed BB Upper Sterling
at
MacDonald HS.
Monday Reverse Coed BB Less Friendly Lower Sterling
at
Foothill main and aux.
Monday Reverse Coed BB Friendly Lower Sterling
at
Foothill aux.
Monday Reverse Coed BB Silver
at
Menlo College
and
the Academy.
Wednesday Power Reverse Coed (new league) at the Academy.
Wednesday Reverse Coed Quads (lower)
at
Menlo College
and
the Academy.
($576 team fee.
Men can hit behind the 10 foot line. Female Touch rule.)
Tuesday Men's A
at
Foothill main and aux gym.
Tuesday Men's BB
at
Foothill aux. gym and
Peterson.
Tuesday Men's B
at
MacDonald HS.
Wednesday Coed A at Foothill main gym.
Wednesday Coed BB at MacDonald.
Monday Coed B
Recreational and Returning B (combined league)
at
Wilcox aux. gym (8:00).
Tuesday Coed B
Green Recreational B
at
Cubberley.
Returning B
(Stephen's League)
at
Wilcox aux. gym (8:00).
Returning B
(May's League)
at
Academy.
Wednesday Coed B
Returning B
(Ken's League)
at
Wilcox aux. gym 8:00.
Thursday Coed B
Recreational B
at
Wilcox aux. gym 8:00.
MacDonald HS is in San Jose, Wilcox in Santa Clara, Academy in Mountain View, Cubberley in Palo Alto, Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, and Menlo College in Atherton.
The IVL sponsors an open play night for individuals and teams on Friday evenings from 7:30-10:00pm at Wilcox High School, usually in the main gym, $14/person. Signup info through the online Reclub App.