Moving to St. Augustine, looking for volleyball?
The club’s three indoor courts are in St. Augustine itself, on US-1 North, eleven minutes from downtown. This page is for the family that just arrived.
A St. Augustine address, on the road every family already drives.
US-1 runs straight through St. Johns County. The building sits on it north of the city, which puts it about eleven minutes from downtown St. Augustine, fourteen from World Golf Village, fifteen from Nocatee, eighteen from SilverLeaf and twenty from St. Johns Town Center. Palencia is a few minutes up the road. Free parking at the door, no gate, no school lot.
The club started in 2022 on the grass at Nocatee Fields. When it came time to build, Coach Andor and Vanessa chose St. Augustine: the oldest city in the country, a town that already loved the beach, the water and the outdoors, and one where a volleyball club could belong to the place rather than to a strip mall.
- Downtown St. Augustine11 min
- World Golf Village14 min
- Nocatee15 min
- SilverLeaf18 min
- St. Johns Town Center20 min
- Fruit Cove25 min
Approximate drive times without traffic.
Three reasons the club is in St. Augustine.
- A beach town makes beach players.Beach volleyball is a high school sport in St. Johns County now, and the county built the sand courts at Nocatee. A club here can run indoor and beach in one program, which is exactly what the U15-1 Academy does.
- Families move here on purpose.Nocatee, World Golf Village, Palencia, SilverLeaf: people come to St. Johns County for the schools and the outdoors. Most of our players had never played club volleyball before. They had played on the beach.
- A place with a story asks you to tell one.It’s Bigger Than Volleyball® is easier to teach in a town where the fort is older than the country. We wanted the club to be part of the place: the building on US-1, the seal on the wall, the door that says Here Is Only We®.
The town, if you are new here.
Six places every family ends up at in the first month. Practice is a short drive from all of them.
Castillo de San Marcos
The 1695 Spanish fort on the bay. Four hundred years of people arriving by water, and the reason the whole town faces east.
The Bridge of Lions
Downtown to Anastasia Island, past the two marble lions. Drive it once at sunset and you understand why people move here.
The Lighthouse
On Anastasia Island, 219 steps up. Still lit. The kids count the steps; the parents count the view.
St. George Street
The pedestrian street through the old town: shops, fudge, pirates, a fort at one end and the city gates at the other.
Flagler College
Henry Flagler’s 1888 hotel, now a college. The courtyard is where every visiting grandparent gets their photo taken.
The Plaza
The oldest public square in the country, with the Ponce de León statue, the cathedral, and the Christmas lights in December.
Landmark photographs are openly licensed, via Wikimedia Commons: Bridge of Lions - 54030592256.jpg (CC BY 2.0, conboslice101); Aerial view of the Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, FL 2025-05-20.jpg (CC BY 4.0, Schwe); Aerial view over the Matanzas Bay of Castillo de San Marcos St. Augustine, Florida.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0, a Wikimedia Commons contributor); St. Augustine Lighthouse Main View.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0, a Wikimedia Commons contributor); St Augustine, Florida Feb 2024 - St George Street.jpg (CC BY-SA 2.0, Steve Shattuck); Flagler College St Augustine Fl (242368877).jpeg (CC BY 3.0, a Wikimedia Commons contributor); Ponce de Leon Hotel (as seen from Hotel Alcazar).jpg (CC BY-SA 2.0, Steve @ the alligator farm); "The Point" at Villano Beach - 29365427994.jpg (CC BY-SA 2.0, Todd Van Hoosear).
If you just moved to St. Augustine.
Call or text Coach Andor. Tell him her grade and whether she has played. He will tell you whether the next step is a grass class in Nocatee, a club tryout at the facility, or the beach track, and he answers his own phone.
- Grades 4 to 8, new to the sportYouth classes on the grass in Nocatee and Fruit Cove.
- Grades 5 to 9, ready for a teamClub tryouts at the facility on US-1.
- High schoolHigh school club beach at the Nocatee county courts, or the U15-1 Academy.