About Us
Our Mission
The purpose of this club is to provide a safe environment where young athletes will improve in the game of volleyball and learn the important values of team, spirit and sportsmanship. We will encourage the development of skills and techniques necessary for players to compete at a high level, focusing on the physical, mental, and emotional development of all players. We will utilize the sport of volleyball to teach life-long lessons to our players (leadership, teamwork, hard work ethic, dealing with adversity and success, communication, ethics, loyalty etc.) We also want our members to understand the importance of academics and other necessities beyond the volleyball court in order to be successful in life. We will strive to “Develop Better Players, Better Teams, Better People.”
History
Allegiant 16U team at the Tulsa Classic
Allegiant Volleyball Club was created by Ricky Basye, a retired Air Force veteran. Ricky joined the military after playing baseball for two years at Alvin Junior College. During his time in the military, he played and coached volleyball for many years. He also helped coach club volleyball in Arkansas until his daughter was accepted to play for Eastfield Junior College.
He was looking to get his second daughter on a club team and heard about one practicing in Plano. He started driving his daughter to pre-tryout clinics twice a week and payed $40 for each one. After several weeks, he paid $50 for the tryout fee and hoped that she would make a good team. The tryout process seemed to go really well until the club director told them that they didn't have a coach for that age group. So not only did he lose all of his money, but his daughter did not make a team, and tryouts were already over.
Ricky searched around and found a club that was looking for coaches and he decided to begin his own team, starting with the girls that tried out with his daughter. American Eagle, based in Dallas, accepted Ricky's team as a satellite team. He continued to recruit more girls to form a complete team.
The next year he coached a satellite team for Warrior Volleyball Club, who's headquarters were in Longview, and stayed there for three years. After his second daughter went off to play college volleyball, he decided to begin his own club, Allegiant Volleyball Club. It has continued to grow over the last year to become one of the largest clubs in the Greenville area. Allegiant VBC has had athletes from Greenville, Caddo Mills, Lone Oak, Cumby, Miller Grove, Boles, Rains, Alba, Quinlan, Sulphur Springs, Community, Canton, Edgewood, Wills Point, Princeton, Farmersville, Mount Vernon, Mount Pleasant, Royce City, Rockwall, Kaufman, Terrell, Cooper, Wolf City, and Sabine. They support local youth programs such as the Boys & Girls Club, as well as, donate time and funds to local school athletic programs. The latest addition of the VertiMax 8 training system will push Allegiant athletes above the rest!
