TIFTON — Tift County High volleyball will be hosting a tournament Tuesday that will be an all-sports affair.

Head volleyball coach Dana Fletcher reached out to her fellow coaches at TCHS and plans are for many different Lady Devils teams to take part.

Tuesday will start with a 9 a.m. exhibition by the volleyball team. Tournament play is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.

Fletcher has heard from basketball, competition cheer, sideline cheer, gymnastics and softball about participating. Play is slated to be double elimination.

“It’ll be fun,” said softball head coach, Kyle Kirk.

For the volleyball squad, Fletcher said it was great for them that their sport will be on display.

“The girls are really pumped to share their sport,” she said.

Matches will have a 40-minute time limit and will be the best of three sets. The first two sets will play to 25 points and the third set will play to 15 points.

Kirk’s softball team expects to be a major contender for the tournament.

“I have some athletic girls on the team,” he said. “We can go in and win the thing.”

Fletcher made no predictions about which sport might come out on top.

“With the athletes we have in our school system …,” she said. “It’s up for grabs.”

One difficulty in ranking other teams is that so many have players with volleyball experience, many at the varsity level.

Girls basketball has an advantage that other sports do not — coaching.

Head coach Julie Conner coached volleyball when she was in Florida. The experience followed her to Tifton, where she became an emergency official for a match.

But she might not make it for the tournament.

Conner is in New Orleans for the weekend, where daughter, Cali, is playing in an AAU tournament. She might have to call in an assistant to help lead a volleyball tournament team.

Conner does love the idea of the volleyball tournament.

“I think it’s a great thing Coach Fletcher has done,” she said.

Several basketball players are on the volleyball roster, including Cali and point guard Denise Duggins.

The volleyball teams are expecting their best year yet since the program began in 2013.

A recent three-day camp at the University of Georgia went “really well,” Fletcher said. They placed in the tournament and had the opportunity play top-notch schools.

Fletcher said the squad is improving rapidly. Their mantra is, “We don’t lose, we learn.”

Experience on the squad is at its highest level, to the point where younger players are now able to look to veterans for help.

“Their confidence level has increased,” said Fletcher.

The schedule for the season is still being finalized, but the Lady Devils will get the season started Aug. 5 with a tournament at Lee County.