Coaches info

Welcome! We’re so glad you’re here! We hope you and your team have a great weekend. Thank you for reviewing the information on this page carefully so you can communicate tournament rules and guidelines with your team.

If any of your students would like to learn more about Union College, please encourage them to stop by the Visitor Center front desk (in Ortner Center before Union Market).

NOTE: Please attend the initial coaches meeting at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 19, in the President's Dining Room in Union Market (south side of the dining hall through the double doors).

Event schedule

Click here for the event schedule.

Team photo schedule

Click here for the team photo schedule.

Be sure to arrive at WOODS AUDITORIUM on time dressed in your uniforms or warm ups.

Tournament pools

Click here for volleyball and soccer tournament pools.

Tournament brackets (COMING SOON)

These are live documents that will be filled in as the tournament progresses.

• Soccer bracket
• Volleyball bracket

Line Judging other games (volleyball)

Each team is responsible for line judging other teams' games.

Teams will be required to provide two representatives to line judge the games where their team has been scheduled to line judge. You will find the line judging assignments in the main tournament schedule. Please make sure your representatives arrive at least 10 minutes before the game is set to start. Thursday’s games have already been scheduled. Friday’s line judging schedule will be decided based on placement in the single elimination tournament. 

Uniform colors

Teams listed first (left column) on the schedule are considered the home team and will wear light uniforms and the teams listed second (right column) on the schedule are considered the away team and will wear dark uniforms.

Volleyballs and soccer balls for warm-up

Teams are responsible for providing their own volleyballs and soccer balls for warm-up.

Vote for awards (head coaches)

Each team's head coach should vote for both awards listed below.

Union College Sportsmanship Award (team award)

The Union College Sportsmanship Award will be presented each year to the team that best displays the values of positive Christian sportsmanship and demonstrates that commitment through the actions, words and attitudes of players, coaches and fans. Sportsmanship Award recipients should demonstrate qualities such as friendliness, courtesy, graciousness in winning and losing, fair and honest dealing during the competition, and overall admirable conduct of everyone associated with the team.

Nominations: The head coach from each team participating in the tournament will be asked to nominate another team for the award. 

Additional Weekend Information

Meals in Union Market

Each name tag covers that individual’s meals in the Union Market. Everyone must show their name tag to the cashier at meals or pay cash. 

Each name tag pays for nine (9) meals and is only active during the meal times designated on the schedule. Going through line twice will count as two meals. 

Tournament guests must present their badge to be scanned before leaving the serving area, guests without badges will have their meal charged to their school directly. Each badge may only be scanned once for each meal. While we do not allow seconds, please avoid waste and only take what you can eat.

Vegan and Gluten Friendly options will be available on the serving deck and the eight major allergen (milk, soy, wheat, egg, peanuts, tree nut, fish, and shellfish) are posted on the glass in front of the food. If you have serious reactions or have needs that fall out side of the posted allergens, please check with a supervisor about our ability to accommodate your needs.

Takeout meals/containers are not available for tournament guests.

Please clear the dining room as soon as you have finished to allow the next group a place to sit and eat.

If an individual loses or forgets their name tag, the meal will be charged to your school.

We often have parents attending the tournament who are not registered with the team. They are welcome to eat at the cafeteria at their own cost. If they do not pay at the register, their meal will be charged to your school.

Facilities

Volleyball: On Thursday and Friday we will be using two courts in the Thunderdome and one at College View Academy. Saturday night there will be single courts at each location. Fans will be able to watch from the balcony and the stage areas. 

Soccer: We will play on two fields at Forty Niners Field. Field 1 will be the North field by the houses. Field 2 will be the south field along Calvert street. 

Bus Parking

Bus Parking should be in the lot west of Cooper's apartments. That would be the lot between #15 & #5 marked with the blue parking pin on our campus map. The best way to access the parking lot is from 52nd.

Trainer availability

An athletic trainer is available at the Union College gym during the hours listed below.

Thursday, October 19

• 9:00a - 12:45p
• 1:15p - 8:45p

Friday, October 20

• 8:45a - 12:15p
• 1:30p - 4:45p

Saturday, October 21

• 6:45p - 11:30p

Team Pictures

Please be on time for your team photo time. Photos will be taken on the stage in the Thunderdome.

Golfers: Please stop by on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. to take your team photo.

Click here for the photo schedule.

Photos from the tournament

A link to a digital album will be posted on the main tournament website a couple weeks after the event has ended.

Live streaming

Volleyball games and soccer games on Field 1 will be streamed live on the UTV Youtube channel.

Volleyball Rules

Pool play

• Warm-up before the first match of the day (11 minutes 2/4/4/1) / (9 minutes 2/3/3/1) after each team’s first match.
• The match winner must win two out of three sets.
• Match rally scoring to 25 points, Game 3 is played to 15 points.
• No point cap on any set.

Playoff Play

• Warm-up before the first match of the day (11 minutes 2/4/4/1) / (9 minutes 2/3/3/1) after each team’s first match.
• Match rally scoring to 25 points, Game 3 is played to 15 points.
• Championship matches – Best of three sets. All three sets to 25 points.
• No point cap on any set

Tournament seeding

• Pairings will be decided by win/loss record in pool play.
• During pool play, each set won will give the winning team one point and the losing team 0 points. In a game played to three sets, each team has the potential to win two points. The loving team will win one point for the set they won.
• Teams will be seeded by pool play record 1 through 14.
• Seeding 1 through 14 for each division will be the cumulative point differential after pool play or coin toss.

Tie-Breakers for seeding in the championship tournaments

• Sets won (1 point per set won)
• Sets lost
• Head-to-head results.
• Cumulative score differential during pool play (Point Differential Formula = (Point Scored) - (Points Allowed).
• Coin toss

Soccer rules

Pool play

• Two 30 minutes halves, 10 minutes half time break, all high school soccer rules apply.
• Direct Red card will mean a one game suspension, with officials' discretion to make it more.
• Red Card after two yellow cards will mean first half of the next game suspension.
• If the game is still tied after regulation time, there will be three penalty kicks for each team, alternating kickers. Sudden victory penalty kicks after that (1/1). Both teams will still get only one point because of the game finishing in a draw. PKs are only being used in order to determine potential needed head to head tie-breaker.

Playoff Play

• Two 30 minutes halves. 10 minutes half time break, all high school soccer rules apply.
• If the game is still tied after regulation time, there will be three Penalty kicks for each team, alternating kickers. Sudden victory penalty kicks after that (1/1),
• Playoff and championship game will have a 10 minutes overtime, golden goal rule (whichever team scores first will win the game). After that, penalty kicks rule will apply the same as above.

Tournament seeding

• Seeding will be decided by win/loss records in pool play.
• Teams will be seeded 1-10 in a single bracket.
• Seeding will be the cumulative point differential after pool play or coin toss.

Tie-Breakers to determine rankings in volleyball pool play

• Games won/lost.
• Head-to-head results
• Cumulative points differential for goals scored during regulation:
  • Game won: 3 points
  • Game tied: 1 point
  • Goal difference will be calculated for up to 8 goals scored/against per game
• Goals against
• Coin Toss