What special rules apply to 15U and younger players?

The 2026 Youth Beach Nationals Competition Guide lists these Volleyball Canada variations for 15U and below:

• First contact: receiving serve or making the first contact with an overhand motion using the fingers (volleying or setting) is not permitted, regardless of the quality of the contact. The first referee signals it as a double contact. Exception: a hard driven ball.
• Second contact: on a team's second hit, contacting the ball more than once with the fingers in a single attempt to play the ball is not a fault if the ball is next legally contacted by a teammate.
• Service order: the scorer must indicate the proper server order and correct any incorrect server. A scorekeeper's error is corrected when discovered, with no penalty. A service order fault is punished by loss of rally or points scored only if the team was correctly notified, before serving, that it was out of order.
• Service receive: in sets 1 and 2, up until the technical time-out, the last player to serve for their team (at the moment the opponent serves) must be positioned closer to the right sideline than their teammate. These positions are kept until the team regains the right to serve.

The guide says a full description of all Volleyball Canada rule variations is on the Volleyball Canada website.

Source: 2026 Youth Beach Nationals Competition Guide, sections 6.1 to 6.4.