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Tip by Jennifer Woodall, Novato, CA. Drill: I separate my team into 3 groups - Servers, Defense, and Serve Receive. Goal - be the first to ten (you can make your goal what you want - sometimes I do time, and whoever has the most points wins the round). Servers earn points by aces. Serve Receive ( you can do this two ways - earn points by passes or I am working on First Ball kills). Serve Receive earns a point for first ball kills, and defense earns a point by stopping the first ball kill. If defense stops the...

Tip by Becky Wipf in Huron, SD. Brownie Point Passing Station drill The goal is to work hold a cookie sheet and not drop it as you attempt to catch the brownie(s) - aka the beanbag while moving back and forth and side to side.. Need- cookie sheets and beanbags, at least 4 girls Line up in two lines with a girl holding a cookie sheet like she is serving someone with both hands on the cookie sheet and her arms extending with a 90 degree bend in her elbows. The cookie sheet will have one beanbag on it in...

Tip by Sydney Peters in Springfield, OH. A great warmup fordeveloping fundamentals:-50 Side to Side Shuffle Passes-30 Short and Deep Balls (working on creating angles for deep balls)-20 "drops" to your partner. Partner is on end line and has to instill the "just go" concept. Works on hitting the floor and one hand flicks for defense.-3 Partner Drill. Each girl goes for 1 minute. Passers runs end line to end line. Tossers stand on opposite end lines. When the passer approaches the end line she will do a "run thru"-If time and skills allow do a Triangle Pepper Pair Game(2...

Tip by Glenn Smith, Wilder HS in Wilder, ID.  Volleyball Warmups I add some specific volleyball skills to our dynamic warmups. We will do the general warmups of jogging, skipping etc... but I add a skipping sequence with double arms to simulate attacking arm swings. I add shuffling to left and right with a passing platform. For stretching: Lunges with setter handsSide lunges with passing platformsSquats with setter handsKnee lifts with tipping handsAnkle lifts with tipping hands I will sometimes have them hold a ball with the setting hands and tipping hands so they can get extra touches with the...

Tip by Rob Hering in Superior, WI.  Instead of just making the girls run to get in shape , I like to challenge them and do real game situations that require them a lot of fast movement in short period. I call it five touches, where say your OH hits a free ball, and then slides over to block a ball being held by someone above net, and then moves back to block outside where someone is holding a ball above the net (player has to touch ball with both hands) then they transition back to hit a ball that...