August 11th to 25th (14 nights)

Men’s Summer Camp/Tour 2003
Women’s Summer Camp/Tour 2003

The Men’s and Women’s Summer Camp/Tour 2003 will be held in conjunction with each other and will be a 14 day tour/camp in August of 2003.

The exact dates are:
All players should be in Maribor, Slovenia at the Hotel Garni Tabor readyfor evening training on Monday the 11th of August. Maribor is best reached by flying into (in this order): Ljubljana, Slovenia; Graz, Austria; Vienna, Austria; or Trieste/Venice, Italy. From there, players take a train to Maribor, and then a taxi ($3-$4) to the Hotel Garni Tabor.

Players must RSVP obviously, but rooms will be reserved for players and be
ready on their arrival day. If we have enough players, we will train Sunday
evening (the 10th). If not, we will start training on the 11th. Rooms are not paid by the tour until the night of Monday, August 11. This means that all players that land before this day will have to pay for their rooms (generally about $20-25/night). Players that come early may have a better chance of getting tryouts before the tour so any arrival date is allowed – the earlier the better.

We will start travelling on the 14th and will visit some selection of the
following cities:

Slovenia: Ljubljana, Kamnik, Kranj, Novo Mesto
Austria: Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Vienna
Germany: Munich, Saulgau, Friedrichshafen, Ulm, Augsburg
Depending on what is going on (this is being printed almost a year in advance) we may also visit Bratislava, Slovakia; Brno/Prauge, Czech Republic; and/or Zagreb, Croatia.

Interested players will need to submit a video (see video rules on the
site), a letter of recommendation from their coach, and a senior season media guide along with a short, informal volleyball resume.

The cost of the tour will be $750 for new players and $500 for returning
clients (or past tour participants) and will cover the following: A "Welcome
Dinner" on the first night, one hot meal for each day that we play a match,
transportation in Europe, a place to sleep each night (BRING A SLEEPING BAG) starting Monday night, August 11 and ending Sunday night, August 24, some sort of breakfast each day, and a chance to get a good job during the 14 day trip.

All players will be responsible for arriving in Europe with a round trip ticket (ticket not included in tour cost) and will be responsible for arriving to the first night’s hotel on their own as spelled out above.

Lunch, some dinners, snacks, phone calls and souvenirs are the players’
responsibility.

Due to overcrowding on past tours, I will attempt to accept only 14 players
per team on this trip (14 men and 14 women). Each team will attempt to
travel with 2 setters, 4-5 swings, 2-3 opposites, 4-5 middles and possibly one true libero.

The focus of the 2003 Summer Tour/Camps will be playing top volleyball and
having each player learn and improve each day so that they have a chance to
get a good job. Sightseeing and going out at night will not be priorities as
they have been in the past. As with the Men’s Summer Camp 2001, we will
hopefully be joined for the first 3-4 days of this event by Paulo Cunha. He
is an FIVB Instructor and coach of Castelo de Maia of Porto, Portugal (The
annual Champions of the Portuguese League). He did not make the camp in
2002, but I will do my best to make sure he’s there in 2003. He will train and
fine-tune the team before we play other teams. He also acts as BIP’s "agent"
in Portugal and to some extent in Spain. We will have other various National
Team coaches running training throughout the event as well.

Players that do not have a job at the end of these 14 days will be on their
own. You have the choice (of course) to stay in Europe and travel (and email
me for updates on the job scene) or to go home and "wait". Players that make
the effort to go on tour will have a priority on all new jobs, but this tour
DOES NOT guarantee a job. All players that want "job updates" after the tour
understand that email is our #1 method of contact during the busy months of
July-September.

The tour will finish in either Salzburg, Austria or Munich, Germany on the
25th of August. That is a Monday. We will play Sunday in a tournament, and
then Monday morning after breakfast, the vans will be returned to Munich
Airport and all players will be dropped off there. This signifies the end of
the tour.

Please keep in mind that many players are also sent off on tryouts during
the tour so there are options all over Europe – not only where we play. The 2002 Men’s Tour saw players sent to Berlin, Germany; Aarhus and Odense, Denmark; Porto, Portugal; St. Vith and Antwerpen, Belgium; etc. The cost of these personal side trips is decided on a case by case basis. Generally the
inviting team pays for the ticket. In some cases, the tour will pay, and in
some cases players will be asked to pay. If this is the case, a player may
of course decide not to go. It is important that the costs of all side trips
(and the return costs to the tour if needed) be discussed between the player
and tour leader (and team) before a player accepts any one-way ticket. The
costs of food and lodging should also be discussed. Players are not given
per-diem for their time on personal tryouts and players waive all rights to
meals/lodging/transportation from the tour when on their own. As stated above, these costs are generally paid by the inviting team, but these
details need to be clearly known on a case by case basis for a player leaves on a personal tryout or side trip.

100% payment will be due by July 1, 2003 to reserve a spot for this tour.

$250 of this amount is 100% non-refundable for any reason and none of the
tour fee is refundable once a player has landed in Europe and either: 1.
Trained with or visited a team. 2. Joined the tour for any length of time.

(Payments accepted by check to our Santa Barabara address or to PayPal)