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What Is Motivation?

What Is Motivation?

What drives you to dive for every ball, jump for every spike, and push through every practice? In this blog, we'll explore the different facets of motivation: internal, external, and the often-overlooked concept of amotivation. We'll also delve into the natural...

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Playing Time Expectations

Playing Time Expectations

With the first tournament just around the corner, it's crucial for both players and parents to understand your team's playing time policy and expectations. One effective way to prevent issues with parents is to communicate early and often about how playing time is...

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The Case Against Calling Doubles

The Case Against Calling Doubles

USAV 9.3.4 DOUBLE CONTACT: a player hits the ball twice in succession or the ball contacts various parts of his/her body in succession. While this has been debated for some time, there has been a lot more talk over the last two years about whether or not doubles...

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How to Start Practice Strong

You ever have one of those practices where your team starts off real sluggish? Eventually, they pick it up and get into a rhythm but wouldn't it be so much better if they could just come ready to practice? There is one thing I do before every practice to set the...

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First Practice of the 2021-2022 Season!

It always feels like a really long time between the last practice of the previous season and the first practice of the new season. But here we are! The first practice of the 2021-2022 season. Before practice, we had a team meeting to go over club policies and my...

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Tryout Preps

I've been working a lot of tryout prep clinics to help players get ready for the 2021-2022 club tryouts at Cobb Atlanta Juniors. I worked 8 hours this week and 8 hours the previous week. During this time, I have worked with about 50+ players who are training to show...

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