our History and Who We serve

Following the 2023 season, TSSAA Volleyball Supervisors completed a survey of the Columbia Association and MTVA. The results indicated that change was needed to cover the growing landscape for volleyball officials in Middle Tennessee. These changes included creating a new association in Southeastern Middle Tennessee, shifting county assignments between the Columbia, MTVA, and new South Central Associations. These changes are intended to reduce travel time to matches and improve overall officiating quality.

As we head into the 2024 volleyball season the Columbia Volleyball association will adopt a new name that better reflects our service area along with a new mission statement. The new association name is the Southwest VolleyballAssociation and will service 7 counties. SWVA will keep 6 counties from the Columbia Volleyball Association and add 1 new county. The counties serviced are Williamson, Maury, Giles, Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, and Lewis.

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SWVA is committed to the education, training, and assigning of high-quality volleyball officials for MS & HS volleyball. We strive to raise and maintain the level of officiating through an official’s training program and mentor/mentee program for new officials. 

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The Southwest Volleyball Association is lead by Assigner Robert Brewer and Co-Assigner Diane Mann. Robert and Diane come to SWVA from Middle Tennessee Volleyball Association. They possess many years of officiating and playing experience. Both were selected to the TSSAA State Tournament in 2023, Robert as a referee and Diane as scorekeeper.