Volo Sports, the Baltimore-based adult intramural sports company that thousands of active city-dwellers can’t seem to get enough of, is expanding yet again.
What debuted in 2010 as a 16-person bocce club now has over 500,000 annual members. It’s currently in 17 major cities across the U.S., and with its latest expansion, will soon have a presence in Jacksonville, Florida and Phoenix, Arizona.
The company has skyrocketed to become the largest provider of social and recreational sports in the nation. It’s certainly evident in Baltimore; walk down just about any city street or pull up a seat at a bar frequented by Millennials and Gen Zers, and you’re bound to see a handful of (sweaty) Volo t-shirts.
The popularity of the sports club is so major it’s almost bizarre to those who’d rather hit the gym or workout on their own. But sports clubs have grown in popularity overall as people look for new (and sometimes active) ways to connect IRL. According to Axios, adult team sports are having a moment. They’ve nearly doubled in popularity in recent years, with around 20 percent participating in 2025, up from 11 percent five years earlier.
Volo’s expansion comes as the company recently acquired two popular sports companies—the Washington, D.C.-based Fray, and the Miami operations of New York-based Clubwanka.
Fray, founded in 2009 as a skeeball league before expanding into other sports, has over 20,000 annual player registrations in D.C., 9,000 in Phoenix, and another 9,000 in Jacksonville, making it one of Volo’s biggest competitors. Meanwhile, Clubwanka Miami is known primarily for its kickball and volleyball leagues.
“Fray and Clubwanka Miami are two of the strongest operators in the category, exactly the kind of proven, community-built growth we look for as we scale nationally,” Giovanni Marcantoni, founder and CEO of Volo Sports, explained in a press release.
Marcantoni continued, “Together, they bring an abundance of players into new and existing markets, and our focus now is building on what they’ve already created, extending that same sense of belonging to more people, in more cities, who are looking for the chance to be part of something real.”