Our 2025 Christmas Party and Awards Night is on 5th December, upstairs in NEX at King Street Newcastle. Details about the program, tickets, and venue updates (parking etc) will be online in the next few weeks. We hope you can join us on the night to sign-off on another big year for you, your family and friends however you have played this year.
Stay tuned for updates also about the Major Fundraising Raffle we'll be drawing on the night, as we shoutout to local businesses and community members to assist with donations of goods & services to be raffled! |
This past weekend, Hunter Volleyball hosted the inaugural East Coast Volleyball Challenge, in Port Macquarie. An initiative which is designed to engage our regional neighbours and increase playing opportunities for local juniors in particular, we welcomed 11 teams to the Port Macquarie Indoor Sport Stadium for a two-day event.
HV looks forward to welcoming more teams in 2026 in an extended, multi-weekend format, ensuring that regional players can be part of a regional club participation pathway with many levels, build community, developing skills, and inspiring them to pursue higher-level representative roles in the future.
Shoutouts to our amazing players and parents for joining us this weekend, cheering loudly on the sidelines, celebrating the highs and lows of tournament experiences, sharing a great meal & building friendships at the teams' dinner, all while supporting your child's volleyball journey.
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2025 FINAL STANDINGS
BOYS
1. Port-1
2. Hunter-1
3. Coffs
4. Port-2
5. Pro Volley
6. Hunter-2
Boys MVP Brodie (Port)
GIRLS
1. Coffs
2. Pro Volley
3. Port
4. Hunter-1
5. Hunter 2
Girls MVP Dala (Coffs)
Check out tournament pictures here
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This weekend our Senior Men & Women head to Queensland for the Senior State Championships, a multi-day competition featuring teams from across Queensland! With the cancellation of the South Eastern Volleyball Challenge for HV seniors in 2025, we are returning to QLD to play Division 1, featuring a few new faces in our HV rosters. Wishing everyone safe travels and great competition this weekend. You can follow the QSSC results here
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It's getting to the pointy end of the Adults A, B & C Grade competitions at Broadmeadow, with Top 4 & Bottom 4 progressions starting this week. The teams will be playing for either Semi-final and Final positions (Top 4) or lower placed playoffs and Promotion & Relegation matches to finish their season (Bottom 4).
You can follow the Grade season matches & finals fixtures here
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The latest mixed recreational competition at Maitland featured six teams and the finals on 17th September were spectacular! Over the past two seasons the rivalry has been building and the Singleton crew 'Sand Frogs' proved tremendous opponents and claimed the Gold in an energetic final featuring great tunes and excited spectators!
Shoutout to Matthias Scanlan for being our Maitland Venue Supervisor this Term across both Monday and Wednesday's programs, thanks for bringing the vibes and smiles every week.
Final Standings for the Winter Comp
- GOLD Sand Frogs def Nesian Nets 2-1 (21-25, 25-18, 25-18)
- BRONZE Villains def Block Party 2-1 (25-13, 18-25, 25-16
- 5TH v 6TH KAOS def Charmanders
In Term 4 we will deliver an Adults Skill Development program in Maitland, to support players ahead of 2026 social competitions. The last Mixed Recreational competition for 2025 returns to Q Block at HSHS, Thursdays from 16th October - 4 December.
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Our first women's competition in Maitland wrapped up on 22nd September, with the eight week competition (plus fancy dress fluor night) creating an amazing base community for women and experienced teens to play!
Leading into this competition HV delivered a nine-week skills development program attended by 20 women.
We will follow up with another skills program during Term 4 (starting late October) to help build confidence, skills, and friendships ahead of the 2026 women's season in Maitland.
Final Standings for the Winter Comp
- Gold Sweet Digs def Volley Vixens 3-0 (25-11, 25-20, 25-20)
- Bronze Serv-ivors def Charli's Angels 3-0 (25-20, 25-7, 25-17)
The Women's A & B Grade competition returns to Q Block at HSHS, Thursdays from 16th October - 4th December and we look forward to seeing more players joining in next month!
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Our Winter/Term 3 junior development activities also wrapped up with the end of the school Term.
Firstly, our Triple Ball modified competitions at PCYC Lake Macquarie and at Maitland High School on Mondays. These were a great opportunity to introduce gameplay following completion of the Ready Set Spike! program.
The U18 Mixed Recreational Competition at PCYC also wrapped up, after their eight-week season featuring four mixed teams competing for biggest energy and bragging rights!
U18s Mixed Finals Night Results
GOLD Ryde def Storm 25-21, 25-21
BRONZE Sunbirds def Bobcats 25-27, 25-12, 11-9
Shoutout to our junior referee development volunteer Ben McCormack for being there this season to mentor players to improve their referee and scoring skills!
Shoutouts also to Coaches Zack & Hannah for running both programs this Term and giving the players so much support to develop their love of the game!
Ahead of the long weekend we'll be finalising the Term 4 programs at PCYC Lake Macquarie, Maitland, and Nobbys Beach.
Once completed, all details about Spring/Summer Junior Programming will be on our Juniors Website here
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Hunter Volleyball is excited to announce a new sponsorship for 2026/27!
Club Maitland City has signed on as a sponsor of the Maitland Panthers U18 Junior Volleyball League (JVL) & Premier Volleyball League (PVL) for a two year period.
The Club's sponsorship will enable us to provide playing shirts for all four teams and support their training activities and events as we build the playing community throughout Maitland and Surrounds in the years ahead.
We are kicking things off with a 4 week Panthers Junior Academy training program at Maitland High School, giving players born 2009-2012 who live close to Maitland the chance to get in early with skill development and games ahead of the 2026 Panthers team trials! Check out the Term 4 Panthers Junior Academy program here.
We will run junior and adult Panthers pre-trials programs again early in 2026.
Stay tuned for more information about the 2026 junior and senior league seasons, once we have negotiated bookings for volleyball with local schools and gyms for 2026. League announcements will include exciting updates about the transition to our preferred model which aligns teams to Participation Hubs throughout the Hunter, as follows:
- Maitland Panthers
- Newcastle Redbacks
- Newcastle Sharks
- Lake Macquarie Sunbirds
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On Tuesday 23rd September, HV President Dani Tansu and Operations Manager Michelle Slack-Smith attended a Stakeholder Roundtable meeting, to discuss the proposed stadium development in Broadmeadow. The Roundtable meeting was hosted by Basketball NSW and special guests included the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, and City of Newcastle CEO, Chair of Basketball Association of Newcastle, representatives from the PCYC New South Wales, Hunter Academy of Sport, and was also attended by Minister for the Hunter, Yasmin Catley.
Over the course of the two hour meeting, there were numerous presentations about the proposed development, plans for the site, and the layouts (sport modes) which would service basketball plus the numerous community sports interested in accessing this facliity (volleyball, netball, pickleball, futsal, table tennis).
Newcastle Basketball must provide their formal and final responses to the latest round of public submissions no later than 12th January 2026, ahead of the stadium's anticipated completion by 2028 before the current site is demolished to facilitate the first stage of the major Broadmeadow Place Strategy implementation.
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