CITY OF FRESNO
Office of Councilmember Brandon Vang
__________________________________________ __________________________________________ JERRY P. DYER, Honorable Mayor BRANDON VANG, Councilmember, District 5
__________________________________________ __________________________________________ NELSON ESPARZA, Council President TYLER MAXWELL, Council Vice President
__________________________________________ __________________________________________ ANNALISA PEREA, Councilmember, District 1 MIKE KARBASSI, Councilmember, District 2
__________________________________________ __________________________________________ MIGUEL ARIAS, Councilmember, District 3 NICK RICHARDSON, Councilmember, District 6
WHEREAS, Valley Athletics is a sports facility based in Fresno offering quality coaching and opportunities for students across the Central Valley to discover their athletic potential.
Based in Fresno. Through its Valley Volleyball Academy (VVA), the boys program has focused on giving local athletes access to high- level training and exposure to national competition without having to leave the Valley; and
WHEREAS, on July 10th, the team demonstrated their hard work and dedication to the sport, bringing home Valley Volleyball Academy’s first National Championship in the 15 Premier Division at the AAU Junior National Volleyball Championship, earning the program’s first national title and representing Fresno and the greater Central Valley on a national stage; and
WHEREAS, the team was originally led by the late Coach Marcos Orro, who instilled values of hard work, discipline, teamwork, and genuine compassion for one another. Coach Taylor and Coach Tyler later carried that foundation forward, developing the boys’ skills whil e preserving the culture Coach Orro established; and
WHEREAS, the team’s success on the national stage was built on the trust and togetherness these young men developed with one another, leaning on each other and competing for their teammates at every point; and
WHEREAS, the Valley Volleyball Academy Boys team stands as an inspiration to young athletes across Fresno and the Central Valley, showing through their hard work, communication, and love for the sport what is possible when a community invests in its youth.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT PROCLAIMED, that we, Mayor Jerry P. Dyer and the Fresno City Council, do hereby proclaim September 17th, 2026, as:
“Valley Volleyball Academy Day”
In the City of Fresno
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed the Great Seal of the City of Fresno, California, this Seventeenth Day of September of the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-Six.
Valley Volleyball Academy