I'm Ryan Jay Owens (USA), owner and founder of Elite, I work as the head agent, event manager and recruiter my company. I am from the USA and lived in Europe since 2002 playing for Champions League teams, I played A1 in many countries including Italy, Brazil, Germany, and Korea. I was a receiver and opposite for Team USA for 3 years. Currently, I live in Split, Croatia where I run events for training and promoting athletes to pro and college teams. We provide opportunities in Europe and online for interesting talents to be seen. We run events in Croatia, Italy, Germany, etc.
Vali Hejjas (HUN), lives in Prague with her two daughters and pro volleyball athlete husband; She is our head international recruiting manager, meaning she heads the search to find and contacts interesting talents. She was a Team Hungary starting position 4 receiver, who played for a top 25 USA NCAA school and professionally in France (Nantes & Istres) and Greece (AEK). Head to
elitevolley.com/staff for more info on our company's predominantly female staff of former top level athletes.
Our student-athlete side of the business is creating global opportunities for international student-athlete volleyball players at most levels, to gain an education, exposure and improve while playing for schools in the USA & Canada. We are focused on quality athletes, so we attract the highest level schools in the USA that are top 20 out of 350+ teams. If you are VERY good then you can play on teams that will have future TEAM USA national team players that will go play pro in countries like ITALY, TURKEY, POLAND, etc...
The Opportunity: Earn Possible Scholarships and Money To Save... while gaining international experience.Many D1 top league schools can offer scholarship and money like a salary up to ~ $15,000 USD but most others can offer scholarships (NCAA D1 + 2-year schools AKA Junior College "JUCO's" + some NAIA schools can make education-based full-tuition scholarships) and some offers could be tuition paid by your family at schools at lower levels of skill for players (NCAA D2/D3 + some JUCO's + some NAIA's).
Below you will be able to select what you are looking for and what costs are possible for you if any at all.
