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Bulgarian Volleyball Academy is a volleyball club based in Des Plaines, IL, ranked as high as #223 nationally by VolleyLens. It fields 2 teams in the 2026-27 season. VolleyLens has tracked the club from the 2025-26 season through 2026-27 across 8 team-seasons.
2 teams · Ages 14
Written from this club's match results and rankings, and updated whenever they are. Nothing here is estimated.
Bulgarian Volleyball Academy is a club volleyball program based in Des Plaines, IL, competing in the Great Lakes region. In 2026-27 it fielded two boys teams aged 14.
Its boys program ranks #223 nationally and #27 of 34 in IL for 2026-27, on a Club Score of 1,066. That places it in the Emerging tier, the band VolleyLens assigns from Club Score.
Across the season its teams played 15 matches and won 12 of them, an 80% win rate. Its strongest team, BVA - Lions 14-Elite, is #36 nationally and #34 in IL, at 1,651 Elo on a 6-2 record.
Teams averaged 8 matches each over the season. The club entered three events between 25 October and 7 November, a season of about 1 month.
Those events were held in one state. 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.
#223 nationally · Club Score 1066
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| Season | Division | Rank | Club Score | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Boys | #223 | 1066 | 2 |
| 2025-26 | Girls | #2802 | 1249 | 4 |
| 2025-26 | Boys | #429 | 1092 | 2 |
| 2024-25 | Boys | #250 | 1208 | 3 |
Every team Bulgarian Volleyball Academy fielded in the 2026-27 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% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BVA - Lions 14-Elite | Boys | 14 | 1651 (Premier) | 6-2 | 75% |
| BVA - Lions 14-Aspire | Boys | 14 | 1650 (Premier) | 6-1 | 86% |
Where Bulgarian Volleyball Academy competed in the 2026-27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE Magnificent Matchup 2026 #1 (Regional) | Bedford Park, IL | #14 of 92 | 3-2 | BVA - Lions 14-Elite — 15 Premier: 3-2 |
| Cyclones Boys Invite 2026 (Regional) | Glen Ellyn, IL | #57 of 92 | 3-1 | BVA - Lions 14-Aspire — 14B Premier: 3-1 |
| THE Chicago Point Series 14's Fall #1 2026/2027 (Regional) | Romeoville, IL | #56 of 92 | 6-0 | BVA - Lions 14-Aspire — 14/13 Classic: 3-0; BVA - Lions 14-Elite — 14/13 Open: 3-0 |