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Upstate Volleyball Club is a volleyball club based in Spartanburg, NY, ranked as high as #2126 nationally by VolleyLens. It fields 7 teams in the 2025-26 season. VolleyLens has tracked the club from the 2025-26 season through 2025-26 across 7 team-seasons.
7 teams · Ages 12, 14
Written from this club's match results and rankings, and updated whenever they are. Nothing here is estimated.
Upstate Volleyball Club is a club volleyball program based in Spartanburg, NY, competing in the Excelsior Empire region. In 2025-26 it fielded seven girls teams aged 12 to 14.
Its girls program ranks #2,126 nationally and #63 of 171 in NY for 2025-26, on a Club Score of 1,352. That places it in the Emerging tier, the band VolleyLens assigns from Club Score.
Across the season its teams played 98 matches and won 46 of them, a 55% win rate. Its strongest team, Upstate VBC 14U Purple, is #1,166 nationally and #124 in NY, at 1,688 Elo on a 16-4 record.
Teams averaged 14 matches each over the season. The club entered 12 events between 13 December and 2 May, a season of about 5 months.
Those events were held in two states, with one of 12 outside NY. The out-of-state travel was to MA. 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.
#2126 nationally · Club Score 1352
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| Season | Division | Rank | Club Score | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Girls | #2126 | 1352 | 7 |
Every team Upstate Volleyball Club 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% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upstate VBC 14U Purple | Girls | 14 | 1688 (Premier) | 16-4-2 | 73% |
| Upstate VBC 12-Pink | Girls | 12 | 1576 (Competitive) | 9-4-4 | 53% |
| Upstate Volleyball Club 12 UpstateVBC Pink | Girls | 12 | 1538 (Competitive) | 4-1 | 80% |
| Upstate VBC 14-Travel | Girls | 14 | 1517 (Competitive) | 2-2-3 | 29% |
| Upstate Volleyball Club 14 UpstateVBC Purple | Girls | 14 | 1500 (Competitive) | 3-2 | 60% |
| Upstate Volleyball Club 14 Upstate VBC Travel | Girls | 14 | 1479 (Developing) | 8-10-4 | 36% |
| Upstate VBC 14-Turquoise | Girls | 14 | 1250 (Emerging) | 4-15-1 | 20% |
Where Upstate Volleyball Club 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excelsior Empire 2026 Jr Regional Championship 2 (Regional) | Syracuse, NY | #1031 of 3,214 | 3-5 | Upstate Volleyball Club 14 Upstate VBC Travel — 14 Girls: 3-5 |
| 2026 Block Party - 12u (Regional) | Halfmoon, NY | #2972 of 3,214 | 1-0 | Upstate VBC 12-Pink — 12 Girls: 1-0 |
| 2026 Block Party - 14u & 15u (Regional) | Halfmoon, NY | #1348 of 3,214 | 9-7 | Upstate VBC 14-Turquoise — 14 Girls: 2-6; Upstate VBC 14U Purple — 14 Girls: 7-1 |
| Great Noreaster 2 2026 (Regional) | Burnt Hills, NY | #1127 of 3,214 | 5-3 | Upstate VBC 12-Pink — 12 Girls: 5-3 |
| Great Noreaster 1 2026 (Regional) | Burnt Hills, NY | #796 of 3,214 | 8-8 | Upstate VBC 14-Turquoise — 14 Girls: 1-6; Upstate VBC 14U Purple — 14 Girls: 7-2 |
| EMPIRE Volley Love 12u/14u (Regional) | Scotia, NY | #3143 of 3,214 | 0-1 | Upstate VBC 14-Turquoise — 14 Girls: 0-1 |
| Presidents' Day Challenge (Regional) | Clifton Park, NY | #1716 of 3,214 | 7-3 | Upstate Volleyball Club 14 UpstateVBC Purple — 14U: 3-2; Upstate Volleyball Club 12 UpstateVBC Pink — 12U: 4-1 |
| 2026 NIKE Springfield Invitational (Regional) | Springfield, MA | #572 of 3,214 | 3-2 | Upstate Volleyball Club 14 Upstate VBC Travel — 14 NERVA Bid: 3-2 |
| 2026 Battle at the NET (Regional) | Halfmoon, NY | #1410 of 3,214 | 4-2 | Upstate VBC 12-Pink — 12 Girls: 3-1; Upstate VBC 14-Travel — 14 Girls: 1-1 |
| Hocus Pocus - Week II (18u-14u) (Regional) | Rochester, NY | #649 of 3,214 | 1-1 | Upstate VBC 14-Travel — 14 Girls: 1-1 |
| EMPIRE Capital City Chill 14u (Regional) | Scotia, NY | #2591 of 3,214 | 3-3 | Upstate VBC 14-Turquoise — 14 Girls: 1-2; Upstate VBC 14U Purple — 14 Girls: 2-1 |
| Excelsior Empire Jingle Ball (Regional) | Syracuse, NY | #1254 of 3,214 | 2-3 | Upstate Volleyball Club 14 Upstate VBC Travel — 14 Girls: 2-3 |