USAV Collaborates on NFHS Certification Program

The NFHS, in conjunction with USAV and the AVCA, has launched a national certification program for interscholastic coaches with the Level 1 Accredited Interscholastic Coach certificate. Read More

CAP Article: Game-Like Training

Game-like training is a simple idea. It is the notion that athletes will learn to play the game of volleyball better by practicing the whole game rather than practicing the individual skills involved in the sport in an isolated manner. Read More

McCutcheon Named USOC 2008 Coach of the Year

USA Volleyball Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand), who led the U.S. Men’s National Team to the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games has been named the 2008 National Coach of the Year by the USOC. Read More

USAV to Host Beach Volleyball Coaching Clinics

USA Volleyball will host a series of six beach volleyball coaching clinics in cities around the country this summer, beginning on May 17 with a clinic in Siesta Key, Fla. Read More

New U.S. Beach Coach has Brazilian Background

USA Volleyball has announced that it has signed a contract with Eduardo “Anjinho” Bacil to serve as its 2009 Men’s Youth, Junior, and A2 Beach National Team Coach. Read More

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John Kessel - IMPACT and Clinic Thoughts

Having just done three IMPACT Webinars and a clinic for the Columbia Empire Region, including watching Saturday nite's 6A Oregon State Championships Showdown between Jesuit and West Linn...some core thoughts come to mind with what I am sharing, and want to pass along to all.

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John Kessel - Capitalization Rates,  …

One of the first things that came out of our USOC conference for me was to hear from Dr. K Anders Ericsson that Malcom Gladwell was coming out with a new book. Sure enough, I went online and ordered Outliers, due out in a week. It will go along side his other GREAT reads titled – Tipping… Read More

The Art of Strategy

One of the things that I find fascinating is the "volleyball canyon" regarding the mental game.  To read about more of these gaps between what the game itself contains, and what coaches train in practice, Read More

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National Conversations on Good Coaching

Almost a year ago, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA ), a Stanford University-based non-profit organization dedicated to transforming youth sports and USAV Affiliated Organization,  joined with USA Volleyball and seven other of the nation's top youth sports groups -… Read More

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Back to My Iowa Grassroots

I have come back to the place that my coaching of coach's journey really began, to a land where nighthawks cry at dusk. Indeed, the 17 year cicadas are now on their third generation since those times, and still vibrate out their amazingly loud ascending and descending song from… Read More

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