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More Than Volleyball: How Nebraska Volleyball Academy Builds Confident Athletes Through Emotional Intelligence
Nebraska Volleyball Academy Club Director Jonie Fader has spent nearly two decades searching for ways to help athletes become [...]
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Carolina Union Wins JVA Club of the Month
Carolina Union Volleyball Club was started in 2001 by Carrie Powell as a way to provide more opportunities for young women to play the sport. Starting with just two teams and operating out of [...]
Coaching Solutions: 2 Serving Strategies to Win More Volleyball Games
Serving strategically can create a lot of advantages for your team during a volleyball match. Where you place a serve can create an optimal scenario that makes it easier for your team to [...]
4 Steps to Teach Volleyball Athletes How to Navigate Conflict
Conflict in youth volleyball is inevitable—whether it’s frustration between teammates, disagreements on the court, or emotional struggles over playing time. The challenge isn’t eliminating conflict; it’s teaching athletes to handle it productively. Handling conflict [...]
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Club Training Model: The First 6 Weeks
The first month of season is filled with excitement and eagerness to hit the ground running at the first few practices. It's common for girls teams to begin training around this time, in mid-November, [...]
How Yoga Can Help Prevent Common Volleyball Injuries
Implementing prevention strategies is the key to keeping your athletes healthy, playing, and assisting the team with earning more wins. Since injury is often caused by poor biomechanics, neuromuscular deficiencies, overtraining, and decreased flexibility, effective [...]
2022 JVA Club Management Track and Convention Highlights
Competition makes us better, but collaboration is the glue to success. JVA Club Directors and Coaches compete against one another across the net all season long, but behind the scenes they are working together to [...]
Coaches
How a Volleyball Club Can Continue to Serve Its Members During the Coronavirus Crisis
As schools and organizations close, we've encountered several JVA volleyball clubs that have acted quickly to implement a course of action. Rather than wait for practices to resume, many club directors and their staff have [...]
Game Management: A System to Track and Analyze Point Scoring
What data do you use to manage in-game coaching decisions? Alexz Smith from Matchbox Volleyball Club shares how she tracks solely the result of each play to provide quick and meaningful data to manage [...]
10 Ways to be a More Positive Coach
In 1992 and 1997, I was named NCAA Men's Volleyball Coach of the Year. The 1997 Stanford Men's Volleyball Team I coached won the NCAA Championship. And yet, if I were able to go [...]
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3 Things to Consider When Switching Clubs
The rising stakes in collegiate volleyball also ratchets up competition among clubs. Whereas one club may have distinguished itself in a region, more and more are cropping up — and players aren't shy about making the switch. Just as college coaches aggressively recruit elite players, many club coaches and administrators are also constantly working to upgrade their teams.
Changing Positions on the Team: Embracing the Change
School seasons have begun, with which comes inevitable change. Changes in teammates, coaching staff, opponents, team dynamics, abilities, and roles on the team. For some, there can be seemingly larger change, your position. Oftentimes, the outlook of playing a new...
Changing ‘Skewed Perspectives’ Into ‘Productive Perspectives’
Over the past few club seasons, I have had the privilege of traveling across the country to meet with parents and present sessions that were designed to give them and their athletes tools to navigate the ‘Recruiting Journey’. It quickly...
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