To celebrate how all players have improved their volleyball skills this season, MYA Volleyball runs the popular "Froyo Challenge" on the last day of the regular season. For 2025, the Froyo Challenge is on May 17th. 

Froyo Challenge Goals

The Froyo Challenge incentivizes teams to use multiple touches to win points, thus helping the teams strive towards what we know is the most fun, effective, and rewarding way to play volleyball together as a team. Based on the rules described further down on this page, the top 3 finishers in each league for Froyo points - including ties - will win a gift card based on the following:

• 1st place - $100 gift card
• 2nd place - $90 gift card
• 3rd place - $80 gift card

Gift cards will be handed out before the playoffs so that coaches can use them in a season-ending celebration at a place of their choosing. "Froyo" was adopted during a time when there was seemingly a Froyo place on every corner; teams are free to choose any place they'd like to use their gift card. 

For the Froyo Challenge to work well, we need everyone to remember that our goal is incentivize the right way to play volleyball. The gift card is simply a small reward that ultimately boils down to about an eight dollar discount on your registration fee. Of course, calling it the "Eight Dollars Off Your Registration Fee Challenge" wouldn't sound nearly as fun for the players! Please keep this goal in mind as our referees work to correctly identify Froyo points. Please remember as well that we only want coaches interacting with referees - parents should not interact with referees and should not attempt to help with identifying Froyo points. The players themselves are typically very alert to when they earn a Froyo point, and the coaches and referees will work together in case there's any question about whether a point was earned. 

Froyo Point Details

The full rules for each league are listed below, but here's a summary to help remember the high-level rules:

• 4th and 5th grade - team must use 2 or 3 touches, with the opposing side unable to return the ball.
• 6th grade - team must use 3 touches, with the opposing side unable to return the ball.
• 7th and 8th grade - team must use 3 touches with the 3rd touch being an arm swing above the shoulder, which includes spikes, rolls, and dinks, with the opposing side unable to return the ball. 
• MSS / HS House / HSS / HST - 2nd or 3rd touch must be an arm swing above the shoulder that the opposing team is unable to control on the first touch and thus unable to return (any controlled touch by the opposing side nullifies the Froyo point). 

A clarification for the rules for 4th through 8th grade - "the opponent does not return the ball" effectively means that after your team sends the ball over, your team wins the point without having to touch the ball again. It doesn't matter if the opponent lets the ball drop, or hits it out-of-bounds on either side of the court, etc. 

Details for each league:

• 4th and 5th Grade House Leagues: Teams earn “Froyo Points” with a combination of 2 or 3 consecutive touches on one side that goes over the net and leads to an immediate win where the opponent does not legally return the ball over the net into play.  A two-touch combination earns a team 2 Froyo Points and a three-touch combination earns 3 Froyo Points.

• 6th Grade House League:  One Froyo Point is earned with each extra point scored by the team following the 3-touch extra point rule for ES matches: "At the discretion of the referee, an extra point is awarded to a team that executes a multi-touch combination that leads to an immediate win where the opponent does not legally return the ball over the net into play.  For 6^th Grade House, any three legal touches earns the extra point. The opportunity to earn an extra point on a multi-touch combination is nullified if the opposing team legally returns the ball over the net and into play.”

• 7th and 8th Grade House Leagues One Froyo Point is earned with each extra point scored by the team following the 3-touch extra point rule for MS matches: "At the discretion of the referee, an extra point is awarded to a team that executes a three-touch combination that leads to an immediate win where the opponent does not legally return the ball over the net into play. For the 7th and 8th Grade House leagues, three-touches earns the extra point.  However, the third touch must involve an arm swing above the shoulder and can be executed by a front-row or back-row player.  Rolls and tips/dinks are counted as hits, while forearm passes/bumps and two arm hand sets are not.  The opportunity to earn an extra point on a multi-touch combination is nullified if the opposing team legally returns the ball over the net and into play.”

• MS Select, HS Select, HS Travel, and 9^th-12^th Grade House Leagues:  Teams earn Froyo Points by recording "Spike Kills".  For the purpose of the Froyo Challenge, a spike (also called a "hit" or "attack") must involve an arm swing above the shoulder and can be executed by a front-row or back-row player.  Rolls and dinks are counted as spikes, while forearm passes ("bumps") and two arm hand sets are not.  The spike can happen on the second or third touch on the side.  A Spike Kill is when the opponent fails to control the ball after the spike and cannot legally return it into play.  Note that the Spike Kill only counts if the opposing team cannot control the ball – if they dig the spike and have a controlled 2nd and/or 3rd touch but fail to play the ball back over the net legally; it does not count as a Spike Kill.

Referees record Froyo Points throughout the match on poster boards setup in each gym.  Coaches may assist in identifying Froyo Points, but referees have the final say in what is officially recorded.