NSVC Mission Statement
Excellence-Teamwork-Commitment-Enjoyment-Sportsmanship-Community
Newcastle (Staffs) Volleyball Club strives to provide its’ members with the best volleyball environment possible, regardless of their level of experience or ability. In doing so we will be known in our community as a leading voluntary organisation providing a professionally run structure for our members encouraging all to fulfil their potential as players, coaches, officials and volunteers.
NSVC Club Background
Newcastle (Staffs) Volleyball Club was formed back in 1980 and since that time has had a strong junior development tradition that we are proud of, and is the core of the club. In 2002 the club plunged headlong into a significant programme of growth, centred on Madeley High School and which has now spread across all four School Sports Partnerships of North Staffordshire, a Talented Athlete Programme (TAP) at the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College, links to all three local Universities (Keele, Staffs and MMU), and a club of over 150 regular members aged 11 upwards.
We won the Volleyball England Club of the Year award twice in recent years and collected a number of on-court National Titles at the same time, as well as feeding numerous players into England and GB squads!
The club was originally formed with the amalgamation of two local school teams - Marshlands High School (now Wolstanton) and Edward Orme High School (now Newcastle Community), and rose quickly through local and regional leagues to National League status. Once in the lower reaches of the National League, promotion came season after season, until the top flight was reached in the mid-eighties, where the men's team have played ever since.
The present ladies team was formed in the late 1990s, again from two teams - Cheadle High School and Stone Alleynes High School, both of which had success at local level, but until combined could not move to higher levels. Once combined, the team entered the West Midlands Regional League, and now, has progressed to play in the National League where we have been knocking on the door of promotion to NVL2 for the last couple of years.
