Volleyball Skills & Drills

Author: American Volleyball Coaches Association

Edition: First

Features:

• Author(s): Avca
• Published: 9-14-2005
• SHK01299

Number Of Pages: 208

Details:

Master volleyball's key techniques and elevate performance in all facets of the sport. Volleyball Skills & Drills teaches the fundamentals and contains the proper progressions to help players master and apply those skills on the court when it counts. Featuring 90 of the sport's best drills, this guide will maximize both the rate and quality of learning to help players and coaches get the most out of each practice session. Developed by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, this book includes an introduction by Taras Liskevych and chapters from 10 of the game's top coaches on the topics they know best: -Paul Arrington: Practicing -Sean Byron: Setting -Don Hardin: Blocking -Jim McLaughlin: Attacking -Marilyn Nolen: Receiving Serves -Penn State assistants with Russ Rose: Playing Defense -Tom Peterson: Serving -Joan Powell: Digging -Joe Sagula: Playing Offense -Stephanie Schleuder: Transitioning Volleyball Skills & Drills is both the perfect in-season coaching manual and a superb off-season player development manual. It's like attending the best volleyball clinic available on each important aspect of individual and team performance!

About the Author:

Kinda S. Lenberg has edited 10 books about volleyball and has served as a writer and editor for two of the sport's major publications, Coaching Volleyball and Volleyball USA. She is the owner of Creative Liaisons, a consulting firm that works with the American Volleyball Coaches Association and USA Volleyball. During the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Lenberg was the media subcenter manager for the inaugural beach volleyball Olympic tournament. Additionally, she was the AVCA's director of publications from 1992 to 1999. In her leisure time, Lenberg is an avid reader who also enjoys playing volleyball and camping with her family. She, her husband, Eric, and their two children reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The mission of the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) is to advance the development of the sport of volleyball by providing coaches with educational programs, a forum for exchange of opinions, and opportunities for recognition. Incorporated as a private nonprofit educational corporation in 1981, the AVCA currently has members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia as well as numerous international members. At the collegiate level, all major NCAA conferences are represented and membership among club coaches continues to rise. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSPaul Arrington, MD, has been a club volleyball coach for 23 years. During this time he has garnered numerous accolades, including the prestigious Bernice Reiff Epperson Award in 1996 for his contributions to juniors' volleyball. Arrington's club teams have finished first, second, and fourth at the Volleyball Festival, which is the largest girls' volleyball tournament in the United States. He began coaching the Waimea High School girls' varsity team in 1994, garnering seven league championships and six fifth-place finishes in the state tournament. Arrington has been named the league Kaua'i Interscholastic Federation (KIF) Coach of the Year six times. He is a USA Volleyball CAP level II certified coach and author of several coaching and scientific articles. Arrington has been a general surgeon in private practice in Waimea, Kaua'i, Hawaii, for 24 years. In the fall of 2005 he became a volunteer assistant coach at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Sean Byron serves as head coach for both the women's and men's volleyball programs at Rutgers-Newark in New Jersey. He led the Scarlet Raider women's team to a New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) record of 20-3 and to the conference championship each year from 2002 to 2004. His women's team captured the school's first-ever NCAA Division III tournament berth, while his 2003 men's squad advanced to the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) semifinals, coming within a game of the Final Four. In 2...

EAN: 9780736058629

Release Date: 14-09-2005

Languages: English

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Binding: Paperback