Certified athletic trainers will be available to tape and assist with minor injuries at the Convention Center. Athletes must provide tape and pre-wrap for any pre-existing needs. Tape and pre-wrap are only provided by the tournament for emergencies.

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) will be on site.

Teams who earn a bid at NCRs Region Qualifier are required to accept the bid earned at the Region Qualifier. Not accepting the bid disqualifies the participants on the team from NCR  sanctioned events for the 26-27 season. 

Bid Winners: All teams will sign Bid Acceptance Form prior to the event.  More information on this process forthcoming.

Trickle Down and Reallocation: provides a route for a team that has played in the 2025 NCR Region Qualifier but did not earn a bid to compete at a USAV Junior National Championship. This process takes several weeks over the course of the spring season and usually is completed in mid-May.

24 Hour Deadline: The Region will contact the "next in line - based on NCRQ finish" when a bid is reallocated to the Region or a bid trickles down within the Region. The Region's goal is to provide as many NCRQ participating teams an opportunity to compete in USA Volleyball’s Junior National Championships. Team(s) contacted will have 24 hours to make a decision to accept the bid before the next team is contacted. 

Bid is returned to USA Volleyball: If a reallocated or trickle down is not accepted by any 2025 NCRQ participating teams in the respective age division, the bid is returned to USA Volleyball to reallocate. 

Planning: Please start planning, now, if your team would be interested in a trickle down bid or reallocation bid and communicate with your team participants on your team’s specific plan on whether to accept a trickle down or reallocated bid.

Trickle Down: NCR does not require a team to accept a vacated higher division bid if the team has earned a bid at the RQ in the competitive division it wishes to compete at the GJNC or BJNC.

NCR teams who have earned a bid cannot opt to take a lower division bid should one become available through reallocation or if a bid  was vacated due to a team earning/accepting higher division bid (a team may move up or stay with a bid but cannot move down in bid level)

Ace of Clubs Region Qualifier

• NO  PERSONNEL ADDITIONS to the roster can be made once tournament play has started on Saturday, February 7. 
• Paper rosters will not be accepted
• How to Roster in SportsEngine Season Management and AES

• Online Team Check-In deadline is 9:00 pm, Thursday, February 5: click here for directions
• In Person Team Check-In REQUIRED, Friday, February 6 4:00-9:00 pm at MCC (roster review, changes, team gifts)
• Paper rosters will not be accepted.

Head Coach
-     Bring warm up volleyballs
-     Work Team Schedule
-     Work Team (have this organized)
-     R2 responsibilities (bring whistle)
-     Official Roster Check will occur prior to every match by the official
-     Dispose of trash around team bench and team camp

Rostered Staff: Will receive free entry into the event. Information shared after team has checked in online.

If anyone planning to attend NCR Region Qualifier has any of  the following less than 48 hours before or during the event:

• fever
• vomiting
• chills
• been exposed to someone with  a communicable disease, virus, etc,,. within 72 hours of the event

to please NOT attend the Region Qualifier out of care and courtesy to other attendees. 
Thank you.

AES only allows for one jersey number per rostered player. We understand that a libero may have a libero jersey that is not a number associated with his/her non-libero jersey. If this is the case, the head coach must declare this information with the site director when checking in as present for the tournament.   We also understand that a player may have her “home” jersey with one number and the “away” jersey with another number. If this is the case, the head coach must declare this information at check in. THIS CANNOT OCCUR WITH THE OFFICIAL WHEN THE OFFICIAL IS CHECKING THE ROSTER PRIOR TO COMPETITION.

Site Director will need the following:
-           age division of team
-           name of team
-           coach of team declaring information
-           name of player who has jersey discrepancy due to being a libero
-           site director updates the rosters and coach initializes the roster

North Country Region will dedicate an area for Lost and Found. Unclaimed items will be placed in Lost and Found. If not retrieved prior to the end of the tournament, NCR will donate to a local charity.

Lost cell phones, computers, etc... will be stored securely with NCR event staff. Please ask at the Championship Desk about these items.

Certified USA Volleyball officials will serve as R1's for this event.  The work team for a match will need to provide the following personnel:

• A coach on the work team roster needs to be present at the court his/her team is working
• R2  - must be a rostered coach
• Score Sheet 
• Libero Tracker
• Score Flipper
• 2 line judges

Non-rostered personnel may be allowed to work on the officiating Team, with the exception of the R2 position, provided they can provide documentation that they are registered with a Region of USAV to include a current membership, cleared background screening, and is SafeSport trained, as well as have the appropriate certifications. 

It is the team's responsibility to know its work assignment(s). Prior to leaving the facility for the day, refer to AES to determine the team's next work assignment and competition assignment.  It is not the responsibility of the USA Volleyball certified officials nor the site directors to know a team's work schedule. Should an event staff worker errantly confirm that a team can leave a facility and therefore the team misses the work assignment, the team is ultimately responsible for confirming its schedule.

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A TEAM MAY HAVE TO OFFICIATE A MATCH FROM ANOTHER DIVISION. THIS IS NOT NEW TO A LARGE TOURNAMENT FORMAT.

Entry Into Event as Participant: must be in team jersey. If not in team jersey, then a spectator ticket will need to be purchased.

USA Volleyball Age and Identity Falsification Policy
Any player in question must provide proof of identity and age eligibility if requested by and Event staff member.  The identification must be provided in person and within 10 minutes of the request. BRING IDENTIFICATION TO TOURNAMENT
The following constitutes as a proof of identity and age:

• Current Driver's License or Identification Card
• Birth Certificate 
• Current Passport

Protocol for age or identity falsification will follow USA Volleyball Championship Manual protocols.

Athletes Turning 18 During Season
To be eligible for this tournament, players who are in the 18 age division must have SafeSport training completed. If a player is in 17s age division but plays on an 18s age division team, SafeSport is not needed for that player.

Uniform and Jersey Number
Each player is required to wear the same jersey number as listed on the official roster through the entire NCRQ, with limited exceptions as required by emergency or blood rule applications.

Official Roster
Each player is required to be listed on the official roster throughout the entire event. If a player is found participating and is not on the official roster, penalty protocol will follow USA Volleyball Championship Manual (reference page 25).

• Convention Center Event Parking Options

North Country Region and the facilities being utilized for the Region Qualifier prohibit the following inside the school/facility/gym:

• coolers
• personal chairs/lawn chairs/etc..
• laser pointers
• firearms, weapons of any kind
• noise makers
• bullying
• unsportsmanlike behaviors and actions

Violation can result in expulsion, without refund, from the tournament.

Our first priority is ALWAYS the safety of our attendees and participants! With the recent uptick in incidents at large-scale events nationwide, we are implementing increased security measures.
This is a private event and organized under the rules and policies of USA Volleyball. Adults working with minor age athletes will meet safety requirements of USA Volleyball.

Only eligible participants, on an official SportsEngine USA Volleyball roster, will be allowed to be on the team bench and meet work team duties.

Spectators are required to show proof of ticket purchase and appropriate photo ID for entry and subsequent re-entry into the event.

Event Staff may remove any participant or spectator from the venue for inappropriate or dangerous behavior. Refunds will not be provided if removal occurs.

The schedule is expected to be posted week of  February 2, 2026.  Our tournament scheduler will take into consideration the following factors

• seeding of teams in their competition divisions
• number of teams in the division
• officials and court availailability
• please check the schedule Friday night prior to Saturday play.  Adjustments may need to be made due to extenuating circumstances.

NCR utilizes several resources to accurately to seed each qualifying division.  Participating NCRQ teams previous 25-26 competition scores submitted into online event systems are utilized as well as a seeding survey to individual teams. 

Information about seeding survey will be shared closer to the event to participating club directors.

Once surveys are closed, they will not be re-opened so that NCR can finalize tournament seeding so that the tournament schedule can be built. NCR wants to be able to provide the tournament schedule as early as possible to clubs, coaches, participants, and spectators.

NIKE Region Qualifier will be using University Athlete to assist your participants and college coaches.

From University Athlete
We get the foundation of our roster data from event rosters that you fill out. Please make sure name,  graduation year, jersey number, position, height, and email address are correct for your teams. Please encourage your players to get their free profile so they can correct mistakes and add even more information to their profiles. If you want to help even more, you can request a club login here. You are probably over worked and underpaid for what you do. Thanks for caring.

GAME VOLLEYBALLS  provided by North Country Region.

• 12u: Molten Light Touch
• Girls 13 - 18s: Molten Super Touch
• Boys 12 - 18s: Molten Flistatek

WARM UP VOLLEYBALLS - responsibility of the participating teams to provide volleyballs for warm up