Coaching female athletes with Salima Rockwell
Salima Rockwell, Penn State associate head coach, gives her thoughts and insights on how to successfully coach female athletes. Her knowledge is built on years of coaching experience at the...
View ArticleDig-tip drill with Mark Barnard
This is a fun 2-on-2 drill that works on tipping and digging. Mark Barnard, Australian national team coach and Oregon State associate head coach, explains how it works here. The main purpose of this...
View ArticleSix-person defensive movement pepper
Terry Liskevych, head coach at Oregon State and the former coach of the USA national team, uses this 6-person pepper drill to help players coordinate defensive movements and communicate...
View Article6 v. 6 ‘baseball’ drill
Here’s a fun drill that involves two full teams and combines a little baseball with volleyball. Kristine Drakich, head coach at the University of Toronto, explains in the video how it works, but here...
View ArticleHalf-turn setter drill with Jim Stone
Jim Stone, head coach of the U.S. girls' youth national team, runs players through a 4-on-4 setter training drill in this video. The goal of the drill isn’t to score; it’s to keep the ball in play...
View ArticleHitting for middle school athletes
This session gives a good look at what high level college coaches would say and teach while working coaching young volleyball players how to hit the volleyball.
View ArticleIndividual ball control with Russ Rose
Russ Rose—head coach at Penn State University—maximizes court space and reps with this serve and pass drill. Players divide into three groups of three: one group uses the left third of the court,...
View ArticleLessons learned from coaching with Liskevych, Rose and Dunning
Penn State University Head Coach Russ Rose, Stanford University Head Coach John Dunning and Oregon State University Head Coach Terry Liskevych started the Art of Coaching Volleyball to share what...
View Article3-on-6 drill with Terry Liskevych
Terry Liskevych—head coach at Oregon State University—mixes things up with this interesting drill that almost feels like Queen of the Court. Players evenly divide into groups of three and stick...
View ArticleServe receive concepts with Jim Stone
Jim Stone—head coach of the Youth National Team—states that before training serve receive, a team must first determine how important serve receive is to their system. In this video, he dives into...
View ArticleJohn Dunning on training setter timing
John Dunning—head coach at Stanford University—focuses on setter timing in this video. And he stresses that, technique aside, setters must develop their understanding of the game to really be their...
View ArticleMike Sealy’s advice to young volleyball players
Mike Sealy shifts his focus from coaches to players at the Northern California Clinic to give the demonstrators on hand a little insight about how to keep mistakes in volleyball from affecting their...
View ArticleHow to train hitter timing
Terry Liskevych—head coach at Oregon State University—wastes no time diving into attack timing in this video. Throughout the video, he shares a slew of pointers to help players develop technique....
View ArticleWhy the jump float is Karch Kiraly’s favorite serve
In international volleyball, statistics indicate that passers struggle the most with the jump float serve. For that reason, Karch Kiraly, head coach of the U.S. women's national team, uses the jump...
View Article10 towers of developing team success
Purdue University coach Dave Shondell takes us on an in-depth look at how he helped transform the Purdue volleyball program by implementing 10 concepts that make up his coaching philosophy. He...
View ArticleSpike over here drill from Joe Sagula
Joe Sagula, head coach at UNC, gets back to the basics of executing a perfect free ball with the Spike Over Here drill. Repetition after repetition, players will improve on their free ball passes to...
View ArticleServing pointers from U.S. national team coaches
Karch Kiraly, head coach of the U.S. women’s national team, and Terry Liskevych, Oregon State coach and former U.S. women's national team coach, share their thoughts here on serving. Liskevych...
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