JVA Welcomes Cat Dailey Minyard to the JVA Board of Directors

The JVA is pleased to announce the addition of Cat Dailey Minyard to the JVA Board of Directors. She will begin a three year term on the Board in January 2024.

Cat is the Founder and Director of Northeast Volleyball Club in Norwalk, CT. She and her husband Garrett founded the club in 2018 after returning from playing professional volleyball overseas, and together have grown from 10 teams to 35 teams this past season. They also purchased a facility in 2022 with SBA 504 funding and opened the Northeast Athletic Center with 6 Taraflex courts.

Since the COVID pandemic, Cat has been extremely helpful and engaging with JVA members and the JVA staff. She is regularly on JVA Club Direction LIVE calls, sharing ideas, leading helpful discussions, and solving problems with other JVA Directors. Cat also contributes to JVA business education and will lead off this year’s JVA Club Management Track at the AVCA Convention alongside her husband, Garrett, as they present “Making Your Club a Home: How to Build a Club Culture, Coaching Staff, and a Facility That Athletes Love.” On the event side, her club’s boys and girls teams participates in JVA events and she started a JVA insured power league in the Northeast during the COVID pandemic.

“As a relatively new Club Director (5 years), I believe I could contribute fresh perspectives to the management and vision of the JVA. As a club, we are constantly evolving, trying new things, and staying ahead of the curve, and I have always admired the way that the JVA manages their organization and evolves as the game and the club volleyball world changes,” said Cat.

In addition to running business operations, managing a team of five directors and facility staff at NEVBC, Cat is also the Recruiting Director and has helped over 60 NEVBC athletes go on to play in college in that role, from the ACC to the Patriot League to the NESCAC.

Originally from Southern California, Cat played club volleyball at Laguna Beach Volleyball Club and then played for University of California-Berkeley for two years including a 2007 NCAA Final Four appearance, before transferring to Yale. After graduating and establishing a career in marketing, she left the corporate world and completed a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship at Durham University in the U.K. and then played professionally in the Italian Series A league for Volley Millenium Brescia. Cat was also a Volunteer Assistant Coach at Yale, as well as at Amherst College.

“We are very excited…