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Coach & Club Resources
You're not just coaching a sport. You're shaping a child.
Every parent who considers your program is asking what their child will become here — and whether they can trust you with the answer.
Your reputation is built the slow way — on what happens to the children in your care, season after season.
They rarely say it, even when your name is good. Until they can say yes, nothing else you've built can reach them.
The rest is free, too.
Reputation is everything in this work. Now you can prove yours.
Years of results with children build a name — and no seal replaces that. What the IYSDF accreditation does is let your name earn the yes too: a published standard, your documents actually read, a visit to where you work, and a seal any parent can check for themselves. Whether you're protecting a reputation earned over twenty years or starting your first season without one, the answer is the same.
Start the readiness kit →Answer questions; we write the papers.
The club a parent can say yes to.
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Every fact in our guides carries its source. Every accreditation includes a visit. Everything exists in English, Chinese, and Spanish — because the families who come to you speak them.
More kids playing. That's the whole mission.
Coaches do this for love. The paperwork, the insurance, the legal maze — that's what burns people out. We take the administrative weight so you can coach.
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For parent coaches & volunteers
Nobody in our carpool had played. We coached everything anyway.
A dad's honest accounting of a dozen seasons on the sideline — and why "I never played this sport" is the worst reason in the world to stay in the parking lot.
Read the article →How to help at a free class (no whistle required)
Every class runs on parent help. Here are the jobs, smallest first — pick one and you're on the team.
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From our coaches
About Sandy Vong
Sandy Vong built volleyball at the University of Michigan from nothing. He founded the men's club team in 1968 and the women's club in 1971, and when the women's program gained varsity status in 1973 he became its first head coach — a job he held for eleven seasons. His 1981 team won 40 matches, took the school's first Big Ten championship and the AIAW regional title, and finished eighth in the nation.
He spent a decade as a technical consultant to the U.S. Women's National Team, served roughly ten years on the board of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, and was inducted into the AVCA Hall of Fame in 2014. He did all of it alongside a second career: chemical and materials engineering degrees from Michigan, twenty-five years at Ford as a senior research engineer, the Henry Ford Technological Award, and several U.S. patents. In 2021 he and his children established the Vong Family Endowment to develop young volleyball coaches.
He is a Special Advisor to this Federation. These five talks are his, shared with us for any parent who wants them.
The Philosophy of Coaching
Sandy Vong, IYSDF Special Advisor
6 Key Principles of Volleyball Coaching
Sandy Vong, IYSDF Special Advisor
How Sports Culture Differs Between China and the U.S.
Sandy Vong, IYSDF Special Advisor