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Tip by Heidi Brady from North Brunswick, NJ. One of my teams favorite drill is called ace and replace. They are the most competitive ever in practice during this drill which is why I like it so much. On one side of the court three passers are on and the coach is the target. The rest of the team serves. If a server gets an ace they replace the passer they aced and that passer becomes a server (they must sprint to switch).Passers can only continue passing until they get aced. The winner is the player who teaches 21points first....

Tip by Paul Oakes from Akron, Ohio. KNOCKOUTThis drill is used to work on keeping serves in, especially at critical moments at the end of a game/match. 2 teams. There will be a "serving team" and a "target team"(this can be done dividing the team by grade levels, or Varsity and J.V., or however you want them divided. Serving team only serves(one ball at a time). Players alternate through their selected rotation. Next serve cannot be contacted until the last serve is completed on opponents side. Non-servers(targets) stand on the other side of the net, between the 3-meter line and...

Drill by Taylor Stallman from Phoenix, AZ. A drill to emphasize 1st Ball Side Out (FBSO), and minimizing errors.One side serves 5 balls in each rotation. The other side receives the entire drill (or you can modify to alternate who serves and receives), and are the only team scoring. So if you go through all 6 rotations, there are a total of 30 balls served. After those 6 rotations you should have a point total, which the other team then tries to beat. The scoring works this way:3 points- First Ball Side Out2 points- Missed Serve by opponent1 point- Any...

Tip by Paul Dill, MIT in Cambridge, MA.   Dig To Self Triples:This is done in a Queen of the Court style with a coach feeding in a down ball to the winning side and losing team shagging and getting back in line. Coach feeds in down ball and a player must dig the ball to her/himself and then set a teammate either front or back row. The rally continues with the same dig to self rule in effect throughout. This teaches players to be accountable for a quality first touch since they must set the second touch. They also...