About
Mission
To foster the growth of young athletes in the sport of volleyball and life by providing quality coaching, training and competition at a reasonable time and financial commitment.
History
Eclipse ( 日食排球俱乐部 of Bay Area) pioneered the concept of a "Hybrid Area League Program”. We provide players the opportunity to experience an elite level of coaching with low cost and time commitment as we promote local competition without travel.
Key pillars to the program:
Flexibility with schedule and commitment level
Hands-on coaching approach in small cohorts divided by skill level (small player to coach ratio)
Low cost (Eclipse is nonprofit 501C).
Community based. Family atmosphere as Eclipse is family-run, founded by world-level coaches Tian, Peilan and now managed by their son Dan. We have many ex-Eclipse siblings, friends, neighbors playing or coaching in our club.
Eclipse believes that we can balance low time and cost commitment and competitiveness into a hybrid area program. We have had tremendous success in the NCVA girls vball league for 20 years, winning Premier (Area) League titles most of the seasons and placing highly in large Qualifier events.
We decided to relaunch the club operations after a pause during the pandemic and serve the local boys community and had a banner inaugural 2022-23 club season, surpassing our goals and training a great group of players.
A few highlights:
We hosted 3 age groups and ramped up quickly to join the competitive NCVA power league.
As a first-year club, we started later in the season, skipping qualifiers and starting from the bottom division.
14s and 13 Solar both moved up divisions, with the 13 Solar team reaching as high as Bronze. In the final Far Western tournament, we moved up from 28th seed to finish 11th, beating the #5, #3 seeds in the process. 13 lunar also handled the challenge and enjoyed some notable victories. This year as a 14s team, we can set our expectations even higher and make a bid to compete in the top division of the league.
With an amazing inaugural boys’ club season behind us, you and your children have inspired us to bring back competitive teams for 2023-24!