NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball Online Course Launches!

NFHS Certification Program: Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball

The Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball online course was developed in partnership with the National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). The course is endorsed by the AVCA, the NFHS and USA Volleyball. This 2 hour course provides a unique student-centered curriculum containing essential volleyball coaching techniques and methods for interscholastic teacher/coaches. Olympians Kevin Barnett (2000 & 2004) and Deitre Collins-Parker (1988) host the online course and present the material to the coach. Skills videos and printable materials are readily available to the coach through the Resources section of the course.

Overview of the Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball:

Unit 1: Overview of Course
Unit 2: Basic Skills: Serving and Passing
Unit 3: Basic Skills: Attacking, Blocking and Digging
Unit 4: Basic Team Systems: Offense
Unit 5: Basic Team Systems: Defense

Why take Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball online?!

It’s available online 24 hours a day — access the course at work or at home!
You can start when you’re ready and set your own pace for completion
You can take a break, print Handouts for reading off-line, or “sleep on it”, then log back on later and pick up where you left off!
All testing and certification is accomplished online – you can even print your Certificate of Completion when finished!
You can access the course for 365 days – as your coaching career progresses, you can go back and refresh your knowledge or access more of the Resources all year long!

Additional Benefits

In addition to the in-course Resources section, USA Volleyball invites all coaches registering for this course to also take advantage of the additional print and video content hosted on USAV’s website available only to those coaches who have registered/completed the Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball online course. This content is available to you for the same length of time as the Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball course is available to you. This bonus content will include additional Handouts as well as a special collection of instructional Video Clips on the USA Volleyball Channel at http://www.dartfish.tv/usav. Instructions on how to receive your log-in and access this additional bonus material will appear in the course Resource section.
Coaches successfully completing the Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball Course will also be invited to take the USAV IMPACT Certification test to obtain this entry level USAV Coaching certification at a steep discount! Instructions on how to receive your discount and access the IMPACT certification test will also appear in the course Resource section.
CAP Certified coaches can use this online course as the equivalent of TWO CAP Re-Certification Module Credits! Once you have completed Fundamentals of Coaching Volleyball and received your Certificate of Completion, email cap@usav.org for instructions on how to apply your re-certification credits.

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