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Boys’ Jr Nationals Combine Youngest Age Groups
USA Volleyball has announced that it will be combining the two youngest age divisions at its USA Volleyball Boys’ Junior National Championships prior to splitting for age-group championships. Read More
Quotes for Youth Olympic Games Gold-Medal Match
Additional quotes for the Youth Olympic Games gold-medal match in which the U.S. lost to Belgium in four sets on Aug. 26 in Singapore Read More
Youth Olympic Games Silver Medal for USA
The U.S. Girls’ Youth Olympic Volleyball Team lost to Belgium 17-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-12 on Thursday morning in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games gold-medal match for girls’ indoor volleyball in Singapore and will come home with the silver medal. Read More
U.S. Advances to Youth Olympic Games Gold Match
The U.S. Girls’ Youth Olympic Volleyball Team defeated Japan 25-20, 25-23, 25-23 in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games semifinal round Tuesday evening in Singapore to advance to the gold-medal match. Read More
Aug. 23 USA-Egypt Press Conference Quotes
Post-match quotes from the U.S. Girls' Youth Olympic Team after its three-set victory over Egypt on Aug. 23 to win Pool B and advance to the Youth Olympic Games semifinal round. Read More
U.S. Tops Egypt, Reach Youth Olympics Semis
The U.S. Girls’ Youth Olympic Volleyball Team advanced to the Youth Olympic Games semifinal round by defeating Egypt (0-2) 25-18, 25-19, 25-23 on Monday to win Pool B of the Youth Olympic Games being played in Singapore. Read More
Quotes for U.S. Girls' Youth Olympic Team vs Belgium
Additional quotes after the U.S. Girls' Youth Olympic Team defeated Belgium on Aug. 22 at Singapore. Read More
U.S. Edges Belgium at Youth Olympic Games
The U.S. Girls’ Youth Olympic Team defeated top-seed Belgium 25-22, 15-25, 25-20, 18-25, 15-11 in Pool B action of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games being staged Aug. 21-26 in Singapore. Read More
U.S. Girls' Youth National Team Closes Out Tournament With Loss
The United States Girls’ Youth National Team concluded the FIVB Girls’ Youth World Championship in Nakhonratchasima Thailand, with a 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-23) loss to Dominican Republic. Read More
U.S. Girls' Youth National Team Falls to Mexico
The United States Girls’ Youth National Team fell to a familiar foe at the 2009 Girls’ Youth World Championship in Nakhonratchasima, Thailand when it lost to NORCECA rival Mexico 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-21) on July 11. Read More
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Tryouts can bring out our deep fears, as the talent pyramid begins its inexorable narrowing. From six elementary schools teams, to a couple or so junior high 7th grade teams. From the those junior highs to the one high school program, an onward into the college level. No athlete… Read More
USA Wins Opener at Youth Olympics
As expected the USA vs Belgium match was a heated one.
Before a sold out arena, I entered the stadium to a fanatic crowd screaming USA. USA. USA. Enough to send chills up your spine. As I made my way to the American parent section, I found comfort in my home away from home.
Our… Read More
Victory and Adversity
Victory is the word for today.
Although at times our team had questioned themselves during the Egypt match. The answer came in the face of adversity while coming from behind scoring seven out of nine points to end the game and the match. Wow!
Our team had displayed a very high… Read More
Contacts Per Hour
One of the four banners I travel with for clinics no matter where in the world I go, is a banner with the title of this blog. It is a way to summarize the motor learning principle of increasing opportunities to respond. As we learn by doing, not watching, one of the core ways to get better… Read More
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USAV Youth & Mini Volleyball
One of the things we find at USA Volleyball is that given the size of our nation and the number of things we do in our sport (Paralympic, Olympic, Beach, Youth, Seniors, Coaching, Officiating, Diversity Inclusion – like boys, Starlings USA and… Read More
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While my grassroots article from over 20 years ago shows lots more of the things I have somehow either changed or even completely avoided (CLICK HERE to download… Read More
Primum Non Noncore
Some of you may know the Hippocratic Oath, given to medical doctors. For those who do not know, it translates simply to First Do No Harm. This is a cornerstone in my philosophy of developing amazing leaders and growing the game. I believe this oath should be given to each coach, for in my… Read More
Ohana & Play
Happy New Year everyone….I am thinking about the chance to give young players a love of the game is perhaps the most important job of any coach along the path of each athlete’s development. This fostering of passion for volleyball is made easy by the very nature of this game,… Read More
Reading & the HP Clinic Redux
The last few days of the High Performance Clinic here at the Olympic Training Center brought back memories of a joke Craig Sherman, former Univ of Missouri head coach, pulled on me in the late 1970s at a USA National Development Camp. As head coach, I had spoken at… Read More
Choosing the Right Words
I have been reflecting on the lack of specificity in most coaches’ teaching, as well as the choice of words we often make by habit. I am reminded of this as we are scripting some free videos to share this year, but mostly it is due to the difficulty I see coaches go through and how… Read More
Summer Volleyball Options
So with Regionals done for every USAV player, congrats are in order to those advancing on to Nationals, or on to USAV High Performance programming. This blog is for the rest of you who wonder what is best to do this summer....and for those programs which may be playing indoors in a June… Read More
Beach Youth Worlds - Update No. 2
Friday was rough at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch Youth (U-19) World Championships... Really rough! Both of our men's teams lost both of their matches in two. What's frustrating, yet also encouraging, is that they both stayed with their opponents point-forpoint in the first set of every match.… Read More
International Guest Blog - Power Cup …
This special international edition guest blog comes to us from Lauri Aatos Hakala. As a collegiate men’s player at BYU under the great Carl McGown, he was a great student of the game. Now he is naturally moving into being an… Read More
The Rare Find
I just finished one of those books that I feel all readers of this Growing the Game Together blog should also take the time to read. Then re-read. Long ago, then US Olympic team coach Terry Liskevych, told me of a study on talent, done with the National Football League general managers… Read More
To My Amazing Daughter - Performance IS Variable
Last night was one of those powerful times where parenting and sports collide. I am going to get a bit personal here, as the impact moment happened to my daughter’s team and my daughter, who I am also writing to in this specific blog.
A bit of background, so my readers who do… Read More
I Love to Watch you Play
As my last child winds her way through that last year of high school, somehow juggling five AP classes, two varsity sports with captains practices and road trips, peer counseling, friendships that have endured 3/4th her life on this remarkable planet….I keep thinking on… Read More
More Street Volleyball Please
Hanging out at this year's NCAA Volleyball Championships in chilly Omaha, Neb., one cannot help but be warmed by the wonderful hospitality of the Cornhusker Nation and Great Plains members. Wednesday night, thanks to Sue Mailhot, commissioner of this region &ndash - which leads all 40 RVAs in… Read More
The Leave a Ball Behind Program Impact
Today I packed up some volleyballs to send to the deserving programs of the Special Olympics in Jamaica and to coach Wiyaka Chasing Hawk, who is making volleyball happen for kids on the reservation at the Cheyenne River Project in Eagle Butte, S.D.
These donated balls came from the USA… Read More
The Evolution of the Butterfly Drill
Been thinking about one of the drills that most volleyball coaches and players, with a little bit of experience, known around the world – “Butterfly” More to the point I guess I have been reflecting on how the motor learning principles of increasing contacts per hour… Read More
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