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Tryouts and Our Deepest Fear

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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.

Reflections on Open Gym

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My son Cody is a senior at the oldest high school here in Colorado Springs. We decided together to start a volleyball club at his school this year, to help grow the boy’s high school club program.

Happy Birthday Coach Wooden

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I was fortunate in my beginning stages of coaching in the early 1970s to cross paths with Stew McDole of Graceland College (now University), where I was mentored by Stew and coaches like Chris McLaughlin and Carl McGown.

We Coach the Way We Were Coached

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Each fall for high school, then later when junior volleyball clubs begin, training takes place that shows that the science of our sport has not impacted the cultural traditions of this same sport.

Back to My Iowa Grassroots

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I have come back to the place that my coaching of coach’s journey really began, to a land where nighthawks cry at dusk.

Opportunity is Nowhere

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This is one of my favorite “words” ever, and given the economic situation impacting us all, leads us into the reason for this grow the game set of options – for I see things as now here, never nowhere.

Landslide

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What do Tori Amos, Smashing Pumpkins, Dixie Chicks, The Dance, and Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac all have in common? Whether acapella, acoustic guitar, solo piano, or more

Beachroots Volleyball in Vanuatu

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I have come back to where my grandfather, father and a guy named James Michener once travelled and worked.

Volleyball and Fly Fishing

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I got a new Orvis Helios 3wt recently. Made from the same carbon fiber they use on the Apache helicopters, it is feather light at 1.75 ounces total, and strong as heck, for casting into the afternoon winds along my favorite little streams.

Father’s Day and Volleyball

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My father was my role model in countless ways, and I have done my best raising my kids as a single dad to follow in his World War II veteran footsteps.