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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: 6-player Over-the-Net Pepper

This pepper variation expands on the over-the-net version to allow for more players to be included, potentially allowing for increased complexity.

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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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Drill: 6+ Player Diagonal Over-the-Net Pepper

This volleyball team pepper drill variation is good for working on both defense and controlled attack across the net.

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Drill: 5-player Pass and Set

This is a combination volleyball passing and setting drill, which can also incorporate controlled serving and/or hitting.

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Game: Speedball Winners

This volleyball game is a variation in Winners (a.k.a. King/Queen/Monarch of the Court) which reduces time between rallies to maximize contacts.

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Drill: 2-Task Ball-Handing Shuttle

This small-group volleyball ball-handling drill has an added dimension which forces players to have teammate awareness and focus on their next duty.

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Game: Player Winners

This Winners variation is a rotational game which can be a good playing warm-up and/or a way to get a large number of players playing for assessment, etc.

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Game: Neville Pepper

This small-sided volleyball game is a variation on Winners with a single team on one side for a set period trying to accumulate as many points as possible.

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