Ego Like an Iceberg

All those setter’s out there who feel unappreciated in their role, let’s talk. Moms and Dads feel free to sit in so that you can see what is going on inside your setter’s head.

It sucks to go out and make incredible plays only to have the hitter get all the glory. Liberos even get more glory then setters do because they pick up some incredibly difficult balls. I’m not about to say that they aren’t important, it’s just really hard to only hear everything your doing wrong. You are expected to make these incredible sets and you don’t get praise when you do that. I read an article the other week that said that if you had to put a bad player somewhere, make them the setter. I might have complained rather loudly to my boyfriend for a good hour about how wrong that writer was.

Planning for Tryouts

August is well under way which means we only have a few weeks until try-out season starts; some of you have less than that. Most of you are in the two week window where you are not allowed to coach your players and some of you are about to start that. These two weeks are truly needed for players who’ve just finished club season along with team camp and individual camps. Players should be spending these next two weeks taking a break and simply training their body instead of playing.

Coaches, this is the time for you to clean up the equipment closet, prepare uniforms, and finalize tournament schedules. You should be e-mailing players the try-out schedule if you haven’t already and you definitely should be sitting down with the assistant coaches to plan out exactly what will be happening for try-outs. Having a drill by drill layout that is posted at the beginning of the day for coaches and volunteers to see is ideal.

How to Read a Pool Sheet

When I am a tournament director, the question I hear the most is ‘how do I read this?’ It amazes me how many coaches, players, and parents haven’t been taught how to read a schedule or the results sheet for a tournament. So now, prepare for a rather long post.

Karl-Anthony Towns Demonstrates Drive Step

Last week we talked baseball talent, this week I’m going to talk about a basketball player, a very young NBA player. Karl-Anthony Towns was signed by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2015 NBA draft at the age of nineteen. Before that he played on the Dominican Republic National team where they missed making it to the 2012 Olympics by one place. He was sixteen at that time. He has also racked up a ton of awards through his time playing.