The Art of Coaching Volleyball

Oregon State assistant coach Emily Hiza, who also coaches many different age groups in club volleyball, gives us a comprehensive overview here on how to teach setting. While a juniors player demonstrates each aspect of setting, Hiza walks us through the skill from A to Z, starting with hand-positioning and then moving on to footwork,...

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Doug Riemer discusses how the use of scoring and slight variations can greatly increase the effectiveness of a drill

Ever wondered what it would take to launch your own juniors volleyball club? Here are 10 steps  from Shauna Denney, president of 403 Selects Volleyball in Calgary and Art of Coaching Canada If you have kids who play volleyball, you may someday hear this question: “Will you help start a club/team?” At first, it may...

As part of our ongoing video journal of the Bishop’s High girls’ volleyball season, we captured a pre-practice whiteboard talk. Here’s a look at what Coach Tod Mattox covered:   Review of the previous match Mattox started off with a short review of the previous match, a win over Eastlake. Note the way he uses...

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No matter what level of volleyball you coach, it’s important to include some type of sports performance program in your team’s training routine. To guide you in this area and help you map out a fitness plan that will suit your athletes, Art of Coaching Volleyball has enlisted the expertise of Marie Zidek, an assistant...

Veteran coach Bill Neville talks here about what makes a good warmup for a volleyball team and what is essentially a waste of time. In his experience, volleyball warmups should have the setter setting game-like balls in the first five minutes. Over the course of the season, that gives the setter a lot more touches...

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Team drill that focuses on setting one individual on both sides of the net.

Stanford Coach John Dunning spends a lot of time planning every detail of his team’s daily practices, but he also leaves 10 or 15 minutes for unstructured play when players do reps on their own. His reasoning: Practicing volleyball skills like serving or passing without having a coach breathing down your neck is a good...

Western Washington coach Diane Flick runs a drill here that discourages unforced errors and helps players handle high-pressure points. The way it works: The game goes to 15, and teams can’t have any unforced errors between 0 and 5. They can make one unforced error between 6 and 10 and none between 11 and 15....

Doubles and triples drills are popular with many coaches because it gives their players a lot of touches and also forces them to develop all-around skills. But choosing teams can be challenging. As Oregon State assistant coach Emily Hiza points out in this video, if the players pick their own teams, cliques tend to be...

Skills, Drills, Clinics, and Videos for College, High School, and Club Coaches

Skills, Drills, Clinics, and Videos for College, High School, and Club Coaches