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Nickel City Volleyball is a volleyball club based in Buffalo, NY, ranked as high as #4305 nationally by VolleyLens. It fields 3 teams in the 2025-26 season. VolleyLens has tracked the club from the 2025-26 season through 2025-26 across 3 team-seasons.
3 teams · Ages 14, 16, 18
Written from this club's match results and rankings, and updated whenever they are. Nothing here is estimated.
Nickel City Volleyball is a club volleyball program based in Buffalo, NY, competing in the Western Empire region. In 2025-26 it fielded three girls teams aged 14 to 18.
Its girls program ranks #4,305 nationally and #133 of 171 in NY for 2025-26, on a Club Score of 988. That places it in the Emerging tier, the band VolleyLens assigns from Club Score.
Across the season its teams played 68 matches and won 12 of them, a 19% win rate. Its strongest team, Nickel City 14-S, is #8,470 nationally and #1,143 in NY, at 1,263 Elo on a 4-12 record.
Teams averaged 23 matches each over the season. The club entered nine events between 31 January and 19 April, a season of about 3 months.
Those events were held in three states, with three of nine outside NY. Destinations included OH and PA. Travel is described here in trips and destinations rather than cost, because event locations carry no distances.
Everything below — teams, statistics and rankings — is for this season and program. Pick another from Season History.
#4305 nationally · Club Score 988
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| Season | Division | Rank | Club Score | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Girls | #4305 | 988 | 3 |
Every team Nickel City Volleyball fielded in the 2025-26 season, with its age group, national rank and win-loss record. Elo rating measures strength from results: it rises faster for beating strong opponents than for beating weak ones, so a team that plays up is not punished for losing.
| Team | Program | Age | Elo | Record | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nickel City 14-S | Girls | 14 | 1263 (Emerging) | 4-12-3 | 21% |
| Nickel City 16 | Girls | 16 | 1253 (Emerging) | 3-21-3 | 11% |
| Nickel City 18 | Girls | 18 | 1217 (Emerging) | 5-17 | 23% |
Where Nickel City Volleyball competed in the 2025-26 season: every tournament its teams played, the host city, how strong the event was, and what each team's record was there. It shows how far the club travels and the level of competition it takes on.
Elite, Premier, Competitive and Regional rate the strength of each event's field, from where it ranks nationally against every other tournament that season. An Elite event draws hundreds of teams from across the country; a Regional one is a local weekend.
| Tournament | Location | National Rank | Record | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Frontier Bison Battle (Regional) | West Seneca, NY | #1956 of 3,214 | 3-5 | Nickel City 14-S — 14 Girls: 3-2; Nickel City 16 — 16 Girls: 0-3 |
| WEVA Dig Fest II (Regional) | Brockport, NY | #1824 of 3,214 | 2-6 | Nickel City 18 — 18 Girls: 1-3; Nickel City 16 — 17 Girls: 1-3 |
| OVR Cedar Point April Fools' Challenge (RC) (Regional) | Sandusky, OH | #1259 of 3,214 | 1-14 | Nickel City 18 — 18 Regional: 1-4; Nickel City 14-S — 14 Regional: 0-5; Nickel City 16 — 16 Regional: 0-5 |
| WEVA 16U Challenge (WEVA TEAMS ONLY) (Regional) | West Seneca, NY | #1261 of 3,214 | 1-3 | Nickel City 16 — 16 Girls: 1-3 |
| SPIRE OVR 3/15/2026 (Regional) | Geneva, OH | #1514 of 3,214 | 1-4 | Nickel City 18 — 18 Regional: 1-4 |
| WEVA 14u Challenge (WEVA TEAMS ONLY) (Regional) | Rochester, NY | #1906 of 3,214 | 1-3 | Nickel City 14-S — 14 Girls: 1-3 |
| Niagara Frontier WNY Memorial Tournament (Regional) | West Seneca, NY | #1917 of 3,214 | 1-4 | Nickel City 18 — 18 Girls: 1-2; Nickel City 14-S — 14 Girls: 0-2 |
| Niagara Frontier Buffalove Cup (Regional) | West Seneca, NY | #2032 of 3,214 | 1-2 | Nickel City 16 — 16 Girls: 1-2 |
| 2026 Nike Steel City Freeze (Competitive) | Pittsburgh, PA | #268 of 3,214 | 1-9 | Nickel City 16 — 16 Club Ice: 0-5; Nickel City 18 — 18 Club: 1-4 |