Volleyball Resources for Parents & Coaches

Parent Resources

• 7 habits of highly effective volleyball parents
• Nurturing strength: Tips for parents of female athletes
• What to do if my daughter is struggling in volleyball
• How to help kids prepare for volleyball tryouts
• The best way to improve your child’s indoor skills is playing outdoors
• Parents: savor your child’s volleyball experience before it’s too late
• What your daughter should do after club season ends
• Is my child burned out on volleyball? Three tell-tale signs to look for
• How sports impacts the lives of girls and women long after their playing days are done

Coaching Resources

• 14 things I wish I knew my first year coaching
• Simple is repeatable: the most effective approach to volleyball training
• Producing ‘feisty, prepared players’: the purpose behind our training philosophy
• Looking the part of a quality club volleyball team
• True growth happens when you practice at the edge of your abilities
• The one role that some coaches are afraid to fulfill
• 3 questions that every team should ask after a match
• How to keep confidence high when your team is struggling in the win-loss column

Volleyball Skills

Attacking

Readings

• Fearlessness: the key to becoming a great hitter
• The secret to becoming a good hitter? It starts between the ears

Videos

• Practicing a 2-step approach can help your hitting
• Mechanics of a good volleyball arm swing
• Home spiking practice
• Teaching the spiker’s wrist snap and follow-through
• Keys to improving a 4-step approach
• The 9-second video of Samantha Bricio that will make you a better hitter
• Getting off the net as an outside hitter
• TOP 50 Best Women’s Volleyball Spikes

Setting

Readings

• Overview of Setter Responsibilities
• 6 traits that coaches look for in a setter

Videos

• Around-the-world
• Springy wrists (neutral, loaded, neutral)
• Left, right, left feet coming off the net
• Back setting
• Two at-home setting drills from Olympian Alisha Glass
• MOST Outstanding Setters | Women’s Volleyball Club World Champs 2019

Defense

Readings

• 6 qualities that coaches want in a libero
• Dive, dig and roll – the most undertaught skill in volleyball

Videos

• Learning the basics of digging
• Individual defense on low dropping ball
• Individual defense: Capture space and have more range
• Hips, shoulder and platform facing target on digs
• Developing digging vision
• Practicing a calm platform
• The side slide – taught by Jim Stone and Kori Moster
• TOP 50 Best Women’s Volleyball Digs

Blocking

Videos

• Static and swing blocking with Nabil Mardini