
Coaching Log – Oct 6 2014
After a day of meetings that cleared up some line-up questions, ball-handling was the major theme of this training session.

After a day of meetings that cleared up some line-up questions, ball-handling was the major theme of this training session.

I needed to take some of the burden off my team captain, so decided to introduce a new role within the squad - a team…

After a hard session the night before, the team was pretty poor in all facets of volleyball in this session.

Two primary areas of focus for this session - evaluating a pair of potential new additions and putting the players under physical and mental strain.

Making the second team competitive with the first team in training games is a challenge many volleyball coaches face. Here are some ideas for doing…

This session I introduced a couple of new games to see how they went and worked the middles and setters on quick attacks to see…

Why is it that professional soccer goalkeepers don't do what we volleyball coaches teach our players to do on defense - bet stopped and balanced…

An integrated 6 v 6 game convinced me that I need to have A and B teams separated for at least the next few weeks…

The first training session of the year focused on blocking movement, serving and passing - and on starting to develop the gym atmosphere I want.

With a new season comes a new edition of the volleyball coaching log where I document my thinking and planning over the course of training…
