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Volleyball Coaching Articles

This is a broad category for volleyball coaching blog posts which are probably not at risk of becoming dated.

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Move your feet or move your platform?

"Move your feet" is often heard respect to serve reception. Given the importance of platform angle, should we instead be saying "move your platform"?

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What if you’re not coaching “the game”?

When the primary focus of a particular exercise in training is mainly mental (not sport-specific) do you still have to make things game-like?

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Is blaming the hitters really the right call?

One commentator blames hitting errors against key opponents for the failure of the US women at the 2015 World Cup. But what caused all those errors?

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Leaving college early for professional volleyball

A young American national team volleyball player just signed on with one of the top pro teams in Europe, forgoing his senior year in college. Good move?

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Making a cultural change

Sometimes a change in team culture is desired. In an article, Hugh McCutcheon talked about some changes he made at Minnesota and the impact of doing so.

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Do I get the coaching credit/blame for this?

Question: I coached a program full-commitment for two seasons, then had to cut back in the third. How do I account for that third season on my resume, etc.?ion: I coached a program full-commitment for two seasons, then had to cut back in the third.

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Game: Pin Hitter Challenge

This game pits the OH and OPP hitters against each other in a kill challenge to work on being able to score against full-team defense.

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Drill: 14-Player Serve-Pass-Hit

This volleyball drill gets a lot of players active on one court working on serving, passing, setting and hitting - and potentially blocking and defense.

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Drill: 5-Player Passing and Movement

This is fairly simple group ball-handling and movement drill (though with room for increased complexity and/or intensity) that could be used as a warn-up.

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