The autumn is nearly upon us so let’s get organised.
Here’s some info you will need to have ahead of the start of our indoor season:
INDOOR TRAINING
Dates
Our indoor training will start in September. Our first club night will be on Tuesday 5 September, from 18:30-21:30. The first men’s training session will be on Wednesday 6 September (19:30-21:30). The first women’s training session will be on Thursday 7 September (19:30-21:30).
From September until the end of May, we will run the following indoor sessions:
Tuesday: club night 18:30-21:30
Wednesday: men’s training 19:30-21:30 (by invitation only)
Thursday: women’s training 19:30-21:30 (by invitation only)
BVA league matches (triangles) take place on Sundays, between October-April (as per the BVA schedule; see below for more info).
We will let you know in due course about any mixed team training sessions.
If you are new to the club, please come along to one of our Tuesday sessions first.
Coaches
Club night sessions will be run by a number of volunteers from within the club. If that’s you, please look out for separate comms regarding Tuesday sessions. Men’s training sessions will be run by our new men’s coach, Sara Pavanel, and women’s training sessions will be run by Rob McMenamin, who has kindly agreed to coach the women’s team again this season.
Venue
All our training sessions and home matches take place at The Wren School, 61-63 Bath Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG30 2BB.
BVA LEAGUE
For the 2023-24 season, we have entered six Spikeopaths teams, based on your survey responses. One women’s team (Spikeopaths Wrens, Div 1), two men’s teams (Spikeopaths 1 in Div 1 and Spikeopaths 2 in Div 2), and three mixed teams (Mixed 1 in Div 1, Mixed 2 and 3 in Div 2).
The league runs from the beginning of October and all matches must be finished by the end of April.
The men’s and women’s coaches will make their own selection for the women’s and men’s teams to compete in the league. We will send out info re: mixed teams in September (ie who is in which team, fixtures, etc), so if you told us in the survey that you want to play mixed this season, please look out for this email.
BVA will be scheduling all fixtures in the first half of September (we will send out the schedule when it becomes available).