It all started when director Mr. Neil Cocks was playing for the Pegasus Volleyball Club, and the club saw the need for a specific volleyball retailer, as it was hard to find any volleyball equipment in the sports stores. So officially on June 1st 1981 Sunshine Volleysport was born, We were the first volleyball retailer in Australia, but it soon became apparent that there wasn't much available through the sports wholesalers in the first place. So we made the change from retailer to wholsaler / importer. During our time in this area, we brought 

Tachikara Agent for the state of Victoria

Molten Agent for the state of Victoria

Tachikara distributor for Australia

Founded Mikasa Sports Australia 

Whilst trading as Mikasa Sports Australia we also took on the Australian Distributorship for Sand Skins, Beach Volleyball Sand Socks.

Traded as Mikasa Sports Australia (January 2001 - March 2011) and made it what it is today by offering our customers products that were never seen before.

Some of these included .....Heavy weighted Volleyballs, Volleyball Key Rings, Referee Toss Coins, Digging Boards (now only available overseas and not in Australia anymore) and the list goes on.

In our quest for the best and widest range of Volleyball Gear available to the Australian public we have now become the Australian Distributors for Adidas Volleyball.

Adidas Volleyball has been set up to supply Australia with the best volleyball Footwear, Apparel and Equipment it has ever seen.

Adidas has for a long time been an "FiVB Approved supplier" for Uniforms and shoes. It has been because of Mr. Neil Cocks and his knowledge of Volleyball products that Adidas has taken this step into Australian Volleyball, instead of just supplying Europe and the USA.

Vinqui (VQ) quality silver jewellery is also now being distributed exclusively by Sunshine Volleysport.

The underlying thing about Sunshine Volleysport is that we are trying to bring to you (the volleyball public) the very best in everything that pertains to the sport of Volleyball, so even though we are Adidas Volleyball distributors, there are times Adidas does not have something that we feel should be made available to you.  That is why we are going to be stocking models of Asics and Mizuno Kneepads, and why we got rid of the Mikasa 830 kneepads (because we had in mind a similar one in the Asics range and therefore it would have been duplicating when not necessary).

I did this when I was head of Mikasa Sports Australia, and as a consequence received enquiries from all over the world, because I brought into Australia things that even Mikasa Sports USA did not have. One example of this is the MVA300. And yes...I did have plans for that particular ball, but I am not saying them here.

This year saw the introduction of what should have happened years ago (except we were too busy running Mikasa Sports Australia), the Sunshine Volleysport LOGO, the background of which is , and this can be attributed to two things, firstly the orange rays of the SUN, and secondly (and more likely) Orange and Black were the colours of the first uniform of the Pegasus Volleyball Club. So this logo is steeped in tradition (Well ......) Unfortunately it has been pointed out to me (hence the reason why it is not on display) that it looks a lot like someone elses overseas, so we have decided not to include it here. The SUNSHINE part of our name is easy to explain as I used to live in a suburb of Melbourne called "Sunshine".

And now from the inventor of ACTIVE ANKLES comes the latest thing from America..... Ultra Ankle ankle braces, the ZOOM model uses the body's own heat to shape itself to the wearers ankle profile.

Phase One Begins.....   

We have now started to do something that no other volleyball retailer in Australia has ever done, go outside selling the major brands known of here in Australia, so as to give the Australian Volleyball Public access to brands they have probably never even heard of before (but I have), and so we are starting .... so far it has only been Huck and Star, soon it will be other well known brands (overseas at least) on the horizon soon.  

The CONTI brand has been around for a long while and even now before I got it, they were (and still are) supplying into Australia, but under names of established Australian School Suppliers, one being in Queensland and the other in South Australia. People like the balls, but didn't know the real story behind them at all. The conti ball is at a price point equal to the MVA310, but really is much, much softer.

Next comes the Star brand of Indoor Volleyballs, last time they sold well after we sold them to a wholesaler in Queensland (World of Sport) especially the 10 panel version, and that is what we are bringing them into Australia yet again.

In the next price point down, comes the Train and Gold Cup brands, and again, this is not the first time Train and Gold Cup have been in Australia, they have been on sale in Australia at least two other times, and each time they sold well, because they are good quality balls at cheap prices and now even better quality than ever before.

And now for something completely different..... Beach Volleyballs.... for a long time I could only bring myself to sell Mikasa, but those times are well and truly now gone, and so .....I hope to be soon supplying the Wilson brand of Beach Volleyballs.

While we are speaking about Beach Volleyball, you cannot go past the Spalding King of the Beach, a ball by which others are measured and without whom we would never have started playing beach in the first place.

So there are more balls than what you thought there were and good ones too. In price points from $55 down to who knows how low, $20 or even lower.