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Youth League
Practice 7 Length: 1.5 Hrs
Please add water breaks as needed throughout the practice Lots of game play here as games are the following week. 0:00
Group Talk:
Welcome • Players arrive - RULES: sneakers on and tied, water bottles all in one spot, hair all pulled back, no talking or ball bouncing when a coach or teammate is, and all players help with set up and clean up, all players get water together when a coach says
0:05
Warm-up:
Entire Group • 2x Lap Your Court • Walking Stretches (to the net and back) – led by coaches - Forward Lunge - Backward Lunge - High Knees - Butt Kicks - Quad Stretch – walk and alternate each leg - Jog to the net / back pedal - Walking Arm Circles (forward and back circles)
0:10 Passing:
Drills – Pick 1 or 2 drills below that best fit your age / ability Make sure to work on forearm and overhead pass during this time. • Knee Passing • Standing Passing • Pass and Sprint • Side to Side Passing
0:20 Serving
Partner Serve or Serve and Chases • Depending on space or number of volleyballs you can decide from the videos which drill is better for your group. • Any player struggling to serve can do a step and throw to start off. This will help correct any form mistakes they are making.
0:20 Group Drill
Free Ball • Start with working on Pass and Set contacts. • After a couple minutes – add in 3rd contact. - You can make this a game / competitions for the kids by letting them earn a point for a successful contact and 2 points for a successful hit over. Any creative way to score it will help them compete and learn better.
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If you need to isolate the set then hit before moving to 3 contacts you can do that as well. For 5th-6th grade groups – coaches or extra players need to enter a serve for the second part of this drill. Run this drill by entering a free ball for the first 10 minutes and then move to a serve. - If you have the players serving, the coach can stand by and when there is a miss then the coach can enter either a served ball or an overhead throw. - For depth perception is it import the kids see a serve coming over the net and work on the skills to be able to read, move and pass the ball.
0:40 Court Spots
Review 6 v 6 spots on the court • Base, Free, Serve Receive
0:50 Play
6 vs 0 or 6 v 6 • Do 6 v 0 only if you feel your group needs to. • Play 6 vs 6 if possible – use the game play notes below to know how to run the drill.
Game Play – 3rd – 4th Graders – Game play begins by coach tosses. We do 3 tosses to one side (to each of the 3 back row spots) and then 3 to the other side and then both sides rotate. 5th-6th Graders – Game play is called “triple ball” – this means a player serves and the teams play that out, then a coach on the receiving side tosses a ball to the serving side and then a coach on the serving side tosses a ball to the receiving side (so 3 total balls have been in play). Then the same serve, toss and toss happens with the other side serving and then both teams rotate and new servers are up. . 1:25
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Group Stretch Clean up all equipment (have players help) Team Cheer
