Tryouts for both the boys and girls season are just around the corner. Below are the flyers for both sets of tryouts.

Here is the final flyer for the Boys Tryouts:
2008 Fall Boys Tryout Flyer

Here is the final flyer for the Girls Tryouts:
2008 Girls Tryouts Flyer

Exciting news about SMBC and Synergy.

A Message From Nabil to the SMBC Parents/Players

A Message From Nabil to the Synergy Parents/Players

SMBC is looking for coaches for both the Boys and Girls programs for the 2008-09 seasons. If you are interested please e-mail Nabil Mardini at n.mardini@att.net.

On Monday, August 11 2008, the Daily News had a special article on boys volleyball. They honored the Valencia High School team for their CIF win as well as highlighting some of their top players. The article included boys from other high school programs that were chosen for First Team, Second Team, and Honorable Mention. Many of these young men also play for a variety of different club volleyball programs in Southern California. As club, SMBC was more than well represented with 15 honorees: First Team: Matthew Stork (Crespi). Second Team: Jake Piva (Valencia), Daniel Stork
(Crespi), Matt Townsend (Chaminade), Dylan Walker (Flintridge Prep). Honorable Mention: Phil Boskovich (Oaks Christian), Felipe Garcia (Sylmar), Hunter Horn (Quartz Hill), Cyrus Kiani (Thousand Oaks), Chad Kingi (Thousand Oaks), Jerame Maas (Royal), Christian Nava (Grant), Tyler Peterson (Royal), Andrew Pitters (Granada), Skyler Seymour (Valencia).


Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to Beau Daniels being hired as an assistant coach for the men's team at his alma matter -- Pepperdine University.

Over the past few years, Nabil has visited several clubs, high schools, and a couple of colleges giving clinics on the fundamentals and philosophies of SWING BLOCKING. This April 26th, Nabil will visit one of the premier clubs in the Midwest, 1st ALLIANCE VOLLEYBALL CLUB, to represent SMBC in giving a three-hour clinic to several age groups on the keys and concepts of swing blocking. So if you happen to be in Chicago at the end of this month, stop on by the 1st Alliance gym and catch Nabil in action.

It is with deepest sadness that we relay the following news: after a long battle with cancer, Mona Greenberg passed away peacefully in her sleep yesterday afternoon.

Mona was an important and influential SMBC administrator in the mid-1990's and played a major role in the rise of SMBC Girls as a regional and national club volleyball powerhouse.

She was instrumental in making the Volleyball Festival in Reno the tremendously enjoyable experience it remains to this day (she helped pioneer the SMBC Talent Show and Barbeque and was one of the negotiators on the original contract between SMBC and the Hilton Hotel, now the Grand Sierra Resort, which remains in place even now.

Mona is survived by her daughter Rachel (SMBC Class of 2002, Santa Clara University), her son and her husband. In the name of the entire Santa Monica Beach Club family, we extend our deepest heart-felt condolences to the Greenberg Family.

Thank you for so many great memories and we will miss you, Mona.