Why Choose Beach Volleyball?
The Fastest Growing NCAA Sport – With Big Opportunities Ahead
Beach Volleyball is the fastest-growing sport in NCAA history, and for good reason. In 2025, the NCAA will triple the number of scholarships per university — from 6 to 18 — creating more opportunities for athletes to play at the collegiate level and receive financial aid.
Why Beach Volleyball Over Indoor?
Simple. Math.
In indoor volleyball, there are 6–7 players per team on the court. In beach volleyball, there are only 2 players. This means your child will touch the ball 300% more, allowing them to:
- Develop skills faster
- Improve decision-making
- Gain confidence with every rep
Beach volleyball players learn to be all-around athletes, mastering every skill—serving, passing, setting, attacking, and defense—rather than being limited to a specialized position.
Strength, Endurance, and Game IQ
Training in the sand builds stronger, more agile athletes with increased endurance. It’s also proven to enhance a player’s ability to “Read the Game”—the #1 most important skill in volleyball, according to the greatest players and coaches in the world.
A Path to High School and Beyond
Locally, beach volleyball is now offered at every major high school—making it a valuable additional path to:
- Making the high school team
- Earning college scholarships
- Developing year-round as an elite athlete
It’s Bigger Than Volleyball ® – At Volleyball1on1 we deeply believe volleyball and sports are a vehicle for teaching important life lessons for success in life. We believe most coaches and parents are “like minded” in this pursuit of helping their children develop life and career skills through sports.
At Volleyball1on1, develop volleyball players in their program to be:
“Excellent goal-setting, communicative, self-directed, critical thinking, lifelong learners who thrive in competition and under pressure, who know how to work as individuals and / or with a team as a member or a leader while being fair and considering others.”These same Franchise-Like, Superior Coaching Systems ® will be applied at St. Johns Volleyball Club and discussed often with you through our ongoing parent meetings of youth players who attend Nocatee Park field location classes so parents can reinforce these systems at home.
Volleyball1on1 As USA Youth Volleyball Coaching Leading Innovator – Volleyball1on1 offers the first Franchise like “Superior Coaching Systems” ® to help coaches successfully establish and launch a set of standards and systems for delivering success repeatedly as a High School Varsity Head Coach for building your program, similar to a business “Franchise-like” system. This system makes a new coach good quick and a seasoned coach great.
Many of these systems will be taught to your youth volleyball players at St. Johns Volleyball by Andor Gyulai himself who developed all Volleyball1on1 Systems with his business partner and wife Vanessa Summers-Gyulai. Coaching systems include:
What Great Looks Like! ® : Coaching Standard, Playing Standard, & Winning Culture. It’s Bigger Than Volleyball! ®, Whole Person Growth ®, Read The Game, Slow The Game, And Eliminate Pressure ®, Do Your Share ®, C.A.R.E. – Connect, Ask, Recognize, Empathize. ®, Vision Training Toolkit ®, S.O.S. – Stress Output Score ®, Bump Up ®, VPT – Volleyball Pattern Training ®, OODA Loop Peak Performance Vision Training Blue Print ©, Volleyball1on1 Team Building Pyramid ©, Volleyball1on1 Player Empowerment Cards ©, Volleyball1on1 Game Plan Offense Poster ©, Volleyball1on1 Practice Outline Poster ©, and the 2022 Volleyball1on1 Indoor And Beach Coaching Manuals.About Vanessa Summers-Gyulai, Volleyball1on1 Co-Founder: Vanessa Summers-Gyulai is author of three financial books, “The Girl’s Guide to Money & Investing”, “Buying Solo – The Single Woman’s Guide to Buying a Home”, and “The Yoga of Money”. She has been profiled on National television shows on NBC, CBS, Fox, CNBC, and more.
Prior to launching Volleyball1on1 in 2009, Vanessa and Andor owned a Los Angeles based multi-million dollar business seminar company and partnered with Jairek Robbins, the son of mega motivational speaker and author Tony Robbins (Coach / Advisor To Bill Clinton, Oprah, and Mother Theresa).
Vanessa began her career in finance in her 20’s in Hong Kong as a stockbroker trading millions of dollars a day in Southeast Asian equity for US funds such as: Soros, Fidelity, and T. Rowe Price. Vanessa’s journey has been filled with many significant achievements: from a top ranked teen tennis star in Florida competing against Jennifer Capriatti and Mary Jo Fernandez, to a hi-fashion model in Paris and New York alongside Charlize Theron and Tyra Banks.
Vanessa and Andor enjoy parenting their three amazing kids: Thor (17), Veda (13), and Charlie (8) along with exploring delicious dining, fitness, healthy living, beach volleyball, and other fun activities as a couple and family in their newly relocated location of beautiful Nocatee, Florida.
Volleyball1on1 Historic Milestones – In 2009 Andor and Vanessa launched the first ever volleyball video coaching web site in the world. Volleyball1on1.com features the top names in the sport of volleyball from Olympic Gold Medalists, NCAA MVP’s, AVP, and FIVB winners with their extensive 2500+ video library of indoor and outdoor beach content with the best coaches and players in the world sharing their insider tips, techniques, and winning strategies. A few of the top volleyball coaches in the world Andor has directly worked with include: Al Scates, Alan Knipe, Bill Ferguson, Brian Gimmillaro, Gary Sato, and Sinjin Smith.
In 2014 Volleyball1on1 launched the first ever “Volleyball Coaches Camp” in combination with their acclaimed USA High School Volleyball1on1 Summer Camps for high school players. High School Varsity Head Coaches and their staff learn in their camps to leapfrog their coaching and programs with Volleyball1on1’s “Franchise Like” Superior Coaching Systems ®.
In 2017 Volleyball1on1 launched the first fully “Franchise Like” Superior Coaching System ® for High Schools, and clubs around the world.
In 2022 Volleyball1on1 opened St. Johns Volleyball Club in St. Johns County in Ponte Vedra, Florida.