So You Want To Be A Volleyball Coach

Pat Madia, USAV Western Empire Region’s Coaches Education Committee Chair, shares eleven core tips for a new coach. Remember and share this, plus other great information for any new coach in the I’m a New Coach section of the USAV Grassroots section.

Volleyball Bingo: Fun, Challenging, Productive

Volleyball bingo is a great way to help players focus on things they needed to work on in practice

Smart Volleyball Versus Dumb Volleyball

Get tips on how to become a smarter player from some of the best players and coaches in the game

Its not Failure, Its Learning

Allowing kids to learn and teach themselves is difficult, especially when you consider that the best learning happens during failure. Coaches must foster education by allowing that failure, not preventing it.

Lessons From a Nose Flute

Learning to play this new instrument and letting others figure it out helps to drive home the lesson that doing the activity is the most important than other things outside of it.

A Major Change in My Feedback

Most coaches who have taken IMPACT learned that a coach’s feedback/feed-forward is the most important form of changing an athlete’s skill set.

My Favorite Player

After 30-plus years of coaching in this great sport, I think it is time to tell you who my favorite player is. Every coach has one, you see, and I am no different.

Volleyball Fun for Youth

Great ideas to make volleyball fun for kids.

Oh the Games We Can Play

IMPACT training provides a long list scrimmage scoring options. Some coaches mistakenly read this as “all you do is play games” with supposedly no focus on technical skills. The assumption is, since it is not a coach controlled training environment, it must not be technical.

Fifteen Reasons You DON’T Want to Play Volleyball

You spend most of your time active. Wouldn’t you rather play a sport where you get to sit around most of the time like baseball, cricket or wrestling? While you get to rest a bit between points, volleyball makes all 12 people on the court move all over the place and that is just tiring!