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What does playing like individuals mean?

We hear coaches tell teams sometimes that they are playing like individuals rather than playing like a team. What does that mean?

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Making “play up” decisions

There are situations where you are thinking about bringing a younger player into a more experience team. Here are factors to consider.

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Handling mixed player levels in practices

Having to work with a group of players at different levels of development and/or skill is a real challenges. Here are some ideas for doing so.

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Building trust and team spirit

A reader wants to know how they can address the issue of ball hogs and players not being very supportive of each other (little team spirit).

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My 2019 AVCA Presentation

I presented at the 2019 AVCA Convention in Pittsburgh. Here's how you can get a recording of that presentation, whether you're an AVCA member or not.

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Building relationships

A volleyball team is a collection of relationships. A whole lot of relationsihps! Do we give this enough thought and attention?

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Are team-building exercises valuable?

The presumption is that team-bonding exercises are a good way to create unity. Apparently, though, there's research saying just the opposite.

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Player-to-coach feedback from a team exercise

A team-building exercise resulted in my getting a bunch of positive feedback from the Midwestern State players, and the other coaches.

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The source of team culture

Where does team culture come from? Is it something that comes (or should come) from the head coach? Or does it come from the players?

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