JUNIOR AGE DEFINITION
Once a player participates (including but not limited to practicing, training, attending workouts
and/or competing) in a club or varsity program for any university, college, community college,
or junior college, he/she is ineligible to take part in any regional and national programming,
which includes but is not limited to national JNC qualifying and championship events.
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1993
or
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1992 and a high school student in the twelfth (12th)
grade or below during some part of the current academic year.
17 and Under Division:
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1994
16 and Under Division:
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1995
15 and Under Division:
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1996
14 and Under Division:
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1997
13 and Under Division:
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1998
12 and Under Division:
Players who were born on or after September 1, 1999
Note: These age definitions are used by domestic club programs and are NOT the same as the
age definitions for the International and Domestic High Performance programs for 2012.
The classification cut-off date of the September 1 was reviewed by the USAV Youth/Junior Olympic
Volleyball Division (YJOVD) prior to the USAV 2008 Annual Meetings and research justified the
continuation of the cut-off date of September 1. Additional information can be found on the USA
Volleyball Website.