OCS ("The Portal") is a system the region uses that is separate from the membership system. The clubs use this system to send out their offers and any other information they would like to share with you.  Every player that had a 24-25 membership is already in the system.  If your athlete did not play in the 24-25 season, please add your player here.  This is NOT the membership system that USA Volleyball uses for membership, rosters, etc. 

What is a commitment?  Once you accept a commitment through the OCS to a club your player is not allowed to tryout or play for another club for the duration of the season.  If a club has given you a verbal offer, they should also send an offer through the online commitment system. Those offers will be sent out no earlier than 10am, July 12 (for athletes who will play 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s) or beginning 10 am, September 6 (for 10-14 year olds).

Clubs cannot force a player to commit (verbal or otherwise) before an official offer has been made through the RMR OCS. 

Probably at exactly 10am July 12 (or Sept 6) you'll start receiving OFFER emails. Each will come to your from the RMR OCS system. The RMR requires that all offers will remain available to you for 48 hours... so it's a great idea to give the system a few minutes, just in case some e-mails take a little bit longer to get through to you. 

When you receive offer(s) you can ACCEPT or DECLINE immediately.  Or you can sit tight for a bit, to see what else comes through.  Again, ALL OFFERS ARE REQUIRED TO REMAIN OPEN TO YOU FOR AT LEAST 48 HOURS.  

Note that teh 48 hours is NOT a firm deadline. It's the minimum timeline that the club is required to offer you. Some Directors might opt to leave the offer open longer for you, to give you more time to "look around." But of course, after 48 hours this is "at the Director's discretion." If another great player comes along, you might lose your spot to them...

When you  do accept with one club, then all other offers will immediately be cancelled, and those Directors informed that you're "off the table."  

There are multiple safeguards in place to make sure that you don't "accidentally" click the wrong accept button. BUT BE CAREFUL. Once you do accept, you're with THAT club for the season! The RMR will consider you as locked to that club, as soon as you click “ACCEPT.”

Thank you and good luck in your upcoming season!

* NEW for the 2025-2026 season; ALL offers for our girls players will be made through the RMR Online Commitment System (OCS, locally known as "The Portal.")  

Clubs are able to formally make offers to players beginning at 10am on July 12 (for girls who will play on 15s or older teams) and at 10am on September 6th for 10-14 year olds. 

DO NOT SIGN A CONTRACT UNLESS YOU HAVE "ACCEPTED" THAT CLUB'S OFFER THROUGH THE  OCS PORTAL FIRST

All offers will be sent to the parent's email address from the OCS system. Those offer email will come from the following address: "offers@rmr.vstarvolleyball.com".

DO NOT ACCEPT ANY OFFER  UNLESS IT COMES TO YOU THROUGH  THE PORTAL (It will come from "offers@rmr.vstarvaolleyball.com")

All RMR Girls Parents should  test the system to make sure that their email servers (gmail, yahoo, AOL, etc) won't  filter out these all-important  "OFFER" emails!

STEP 1: Please immediately add the "offers" address (offers@rmr.vstarvolleyball.com) to your (parent) contact list.  This should help prevent any  "OFFERS " getting stuck in the parents' email  SPAM filter.

STEP 2: Test the "offers" email system. To do that, click Verify your email address here.

NEW INFO as of JULY 9:

You are now able to "verify email" more than once! So if you tried the verification system a week ago, but that test offer email went to your spam... so THEN you added the "offers@rmr.vstarvolleyball.com"" email address to your contact list... and you wanted to try the verification again (but it wouldn't let you)... NOW IT WILL!  (You can test an email address once a day; the system resets each night)

RMR Community;

In March, we published an RMR Recruiting Policy that included the idea that “currently-affiliated athletes were completely off limits” until July Tryouts. We received significant feedback from many of our Directors regarding that concept, and so we reached out to USAV leadership directly. They made clear that USAV and most Regions are moving away from “restrictive regulations” of this nature, and towards a more open “free market” philosophy. The RMR will follow suit.

Please find attached  (above) a single-page “white sheet” that describes our updated Recruiting Policy.  Also, please be aware that the RMR reserves the right to update the Policy from time to time, as our Board of Directors finds necessary.

We're aware that the RMR, like USAV and "club volleyball" universally, has been changing rapidly.  We all yearn for the stability of previous times. Still, implementation of new technology, new policies and new management standards will help us meet challenging new market realities.  

Like most of you, we do hope to "settle in" on stable annual calendars, ranking systems, and of course a recruiting policy that serve everyone smoothly and well, and that can be left in place for several years into the future. "Fingers crossed" that  this Recruiting Policy represents a step in that direction!

Keith Murlless, Executive Director, RMR

• Saturday May 10th: Colorado High School Boys Championships concludes

• Sunday May 11th: RMR Boys Open Gyms may begin (EVALUATION only… no offers, no contracts)

• Monday July 7th: End of last summer Championship (AAU) and beginning of Dead Week

• 10am Monday July 14th: End of Dead-Week; Secondary Evaluation Period begins (no offers, no contracts)

• 10am Monday July 21st: Tryouts begin. Offers may be made, but no contracts signed..

• 10am Friday July 25th: RETENTION Contracts may be offered (to Boys players affiliated to your club through 24-25)

• 10am Monday July 28th: Contracts may be offered to any eligible Boys player.

RMR Bid Successes continue!

In addition to winning RMR Regional Bids here in Denver at the ZBT, several of our RMR clubs have secured bids at USAV Girls National Qualifiers. 

Congratulations go out to:

At Far Western GJNQ
Colorado Junions 15Sherri              15 Open

At Lone Star GJNQ
Front Range 17 Black                          17 USA
Colorado Skyline 17 Royal               17 Liberty

At SLC Showdown GJNQ
NORCO 15 Black                                  15 USA
Colorado Juniors 16Shannon        16 USA  

At Pacific Northwest GJNQ
Colorado Elite 16 Grizzly                16 Liberty

At Mideast  GJNQ
Elevation 18 Peak                                18 USA
Colorado Juniors 18Jayne             18 Liberty

At Red Rock Rave GJNQ
FrontRange 18 Black                        18 USA
Mesa Juniors 18 Black                    18 Amer

At Sunshine GJNQ
CS Altitude 16 Navy                         16 Amer

At Florida Fest GJNQ
Colorado Juniors 18Kevin            18 Open

To see how the RMR is doing on the national stage and here at home, please see

ZBT Results and RMR Bid Standings

Summer is upon us! Many RMR members will attend various skills clinics and open gyms, and eventually TRYOUTS in the coming months. Remember that if you are a returning athletes (regular season member for 24-25) then your membership and insurance are "good through August 31st!" No need to buy a summer or tryout membership!

If you are new to USAV and RMR, then you WILL need to purchase a membership of some sort. Currently, we have our "24-25 Limited Summer Camps and Clinics" membership available (HERE).  Only purchase this membership  if you don't already have a  24-25  regular membership, but do want to attend camps and clinics. The Summer membership DOES cover you at our July 12-on Tryouts as well, but it is NOT "upgradable" to the 25-26 membership, so only buy this one if you're going to attend camps/clinics before July 12th.

On July 12th we start the  formal Tryout season. Memberships for Tryouts (only) will open July 1. That membership IS upgradable to the 25-26 season (so all your money goes toward your new club season)  but it does NOT cover summer camps/clinics. 

BEACH-ONLY players fall into two categories. LOCAL-only players may purchase the "Summer" membership discussed above. Beach-only players who will participate in any national-level event (BRQ, BNQ, NBTChamps, or any events after Sept 1st) should purchase our  "24-25 RMR Junior Beach" membership. Reminder: if you're a full regular season member (traditional indoor membership) then you don't need a beach membership; it's included. This paragraph speaks to players who ONLY play beach!

Directors

Please read the "Summer Memberships" article published above. Then, note that there are two METHODS for your players to purchase the Summer Camps and Clinics membership:

1) You send them a public club assignment link and they select "summer" when it asks how long they'll be participating. This will prompt them to purchase the 24-25 RMR Limited Summer Camps/Clinics membership. This method will automatically affiliate the membership with your club, so you'll be able to see them in your directory.

2) You can send them this link https://memberships.sportsengine.com/buy/11ef4ea3-e24f-48e8-af28-762cd491ac0d , but this will not affiliate the membership with your club.

Here's that link

https://memberships.sportsengine.com/buy/11f03d74-231f-1618-91bd-2ebe6ba2a914 

More Indoor Volleyball Summer Camps in the RMR:

GIRLS: Colorado School of Mines will offer three camps, July 14-16, 17-21 and 21-23!

BOYS: Colorado Elite has invited Coach Kevin Pratte and his team of coaches to Denver to run a two-day BOYS Camp July 25 and 26

See the RMR INDOOR CAMP PAGE for more details!

Colorado recently enacted a new law that will come into effect July 1st, 2025. In effect, Colorado has created its own "Safesport-style" athlete-safety training program for coaches in all youth sports. The new law requires ALL youth sports coaches to complete this training module annually. You can take the course here:

Colorado-Mandated TRAINING

FYI: At this time, Colorado does not recognize the USAV Safesport Course as a replacement for their own safety curriculum. We do  have advocates at "Capitol Hill" negotiating for a collaborative effort in the future. But be advised, for the 25-26 RMR season, all Coaches are required to complete both training courses.

Dear RMR Volleyball Families, 

Here's a quick note to let you know that the RMR has partnered with VKTRY Performance Insoles - The Official Insoles of USA Volleyball.  

All of our RMR coaches, athletes and their  family members receive 20% off these exciting new products!

See Testimonials HERE....  

SOLES AND HOW THEY WORK

VKTRY also provides a 90 day money back guarantee and free shipping!

Request the code from us at office@rmrvolleyball.org.

USA Hosts Deaf Volleyball!

Learn more about Deaf Volleyball HERE!

And contact the RMR if you or someone you know, is interested in participating!