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No More Drills, Feedback or Technical Training…

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OK coach, hopefully this title has made you click through to this blog to see what the heck I could be thinking here.

May We Please Leave a Court Up?

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Over 20 years ago I was working with the University of Colorado program, working with several club teams to merge them into a single varsity program.

CAP Article: Game-Like Training

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Originally published in 2009 About the Author: Rick Swan is the head women’s volleyball coach at Colorado College. He is a CAP Level II coach in USA Volleyball’s Coach Education Program. 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…

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