Volleyball Destination

BYU volleyball team suffers 1st loss of season (The Salt Lake Tribune)
LOS ANGELES - UCLA defeated Brigham Young 24-30, 30-22, 25-30, 30-26, 19-17 in men’s volleyball Saturday night to give the Cougars their first loss of the season. We played really tentative for long periods of time, BYU coach Tom Peterson said. We didn’t serve well and we couldn’t get them out of system and we weren’t in system as much as we needed to be.

The Skills Competition
One good way to rate the players on your team is to have a skills competition. What is it? It is a series of drills that award points and allow you to stack each player by their skill….

Ashmore to coach C.P. volleyball (Northwest Indiana Times)
Rick Ashmore has accepted the position of head girls volleyball coach at Crown Point, pending approval of the school board. Ashmore has coached the sport since 1988, including stops at Michigan City Rogers, Lake Central, Kankakee Valley and St. Joseph’s High School in Michigan.

Pre-Game Pep Talks
From the forums, “Since i began coaching i have used pregame pep-talks as a means of psyching my team up. But lately i have been questioning myself over the benefits of this ritual. I think that my players have many…

Coaches: When are You Successful?
The word “success” is a tough word. Many things dictate how successful YOU think you are and how successful OTHERS think you are. I have been a coach with Roanoke Juniors for many years. When the club started, a big…

BYU volleyball team falls in 5 at UCLA (Deseret Morning News)
In its first five-game match of the year, BYU fell 3-2 to UCLA at Pauley Pavilion Saturday, ending its undefeated start. The Cougars are now 7-1 overall and 5-1 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation while the Bruins improved to 5-4 overall and 1-2 in league play.

College Volleyball: BYU men rally for road win (The Salt Lake Tribune)
LOS ANGELES - In its first road match of the season, the Brigham Young men’s volleyball team rallied for a 24-30, 30-26, 30-14, 30-24 victory over UCLA on Thursday at Pauley Pavillion. Ivan Perez led three Cougars (7-0, 5-0 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) in double-digit kills with 21. Taylor Evans and Russell Holmes had 12 and 11 kills, respectively.

Play Flash Volleyball
Looking to kill some time?? Hop over to Volleyball.com and play their flash volleyball. It’s pretty challenging and a whole lot of fun. Check it out!…

NW Briefs: Volleyball honors for Tomasevic, Lee (Seattle Times)
Washington senior outside hitter Sanja Tomasevic was named the Asics Volleyball Player of the Year, and senior libero Candace Lee was named…

Advice for New Coaches
Click the above link for great advice on becoming a new volleyball coach. Writer, Steve Stout covers the whole process, from recruiting, to drilling, to serving the first ball at the first game. He covers types of offenses, defense, and…

Starting Your New Year and New Club Season Right!
Club season is gearing up across the nation, and with it, are the yearly occurrences of some things that, in my book, just are not as they should be. My philosophy of the club season is simply that it is…

No. 12 Men s Volleyball Hosts NYU (GoPSUsports.com)
University Park, Pa., Jan. 26, 2006 The 12th-ranked Penn State men s volleyball team takes on EIVA-rival New York University Friday, Jan. 27 at 7:00 p.m., in the South Gym of Rec Hall. Admission to the event is free and fans can listen to the match locally on ESPN Radio 1450 AM WMAJ or on the web at www.GoPSUsports.com.

Lost Coast Jr. girls volleyball open for registration (Mendocino Beacon)
On Sunday, Jan. 29, the Lost Coast Girls Jr. Volleyball Club will be having team registration between 5 and 5:30 p.m. at the Fort Bragg Middle School gymnasium. Players and parents must attend. Bring a copy of the child’s medical history and the $50 registration fee.

Four Keys to Excellent Serve Receive
A big concern for volleyball players and coaches is how to perfect that serve receive. Coach Tom Houser breaks it down into four basic areas of the succesful serve receive….

The Spike Should Always Look the Same
An effective team has several different methods of attacks in their arsenal. The three basic attacks are; the dink, the off-speed spike and the hard-driven spike. The dink is an effective tool when your opponents have learned the timing of…

AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour Headed to Atlanta (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of AVP, Inc. , a lifestyle sports entertainment company focused on professional beach volleyball announced today they will bring the fast-growing AVP Tour to Atlanta this summer for the AVP Atlanta Open, July 6-9, 2006.

Play Flash Volleyball
Looking to kill some time?? Hop over to Volleyball.com and play their flash volleyball. It’s pretty challenging and a whole lot of fun. Check it out!…

North Dakota State volleyball coach Bina quits after 11 years (Fort Wayne News-Sentinel)
FARGO, N.D. - North Dakota State head volleyball coach Zaundra Bina has resigned after a dispute with athletic officials over the direction of the program.

How to Get the Most From Your Club Season
As the club season gets ready to swing into high gear around the country, I thought it would be a good time to send out a little reminder concerning what I feel is truly the number one key to making…

Create Your Own Drill?
Can it be done? You bet, and it is often easier than you think. Looking at search results here at About’s Volleyball site, the biggest thing volleyball enthusiasts are looking for is drills. Our mailboxes are full of emails asking…

Gatorade National Volleyball Player of the Year: Megan Hodge (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Entering its third decade of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade Thirst Quencher, in partnership with Scholastic Coach & Athletic Director magazine, today announced Megan Hodge of Riverside High School as the 2005-06 Gatorade National Volleyball Player of the Year.

PREP ROUNDUP: Lake Orion tops Mott in volleyball (Detroit Free Press)
Lake Orion defeated Waterford Mott, 3-1, in volleyball Monday night. The scores were 25-19, 25-13, 19-25, 25-12 in the match played at Lake Orion. Senior outside hitter Kristin Larsen had 22 kills for Lake Orion (13-9-3, 5-1 Oakland Activities Association Division 2).

Merry Christmas Everyone!
I and the all the writers here at the Volleyball site would like to extend a heart-felt happy holidays and Merry Christmas. I’ve been doing a lot of traveling in the Middle East and I ask everyone to take a…

Steps to Developing that Ideal Volleyball Player
It is our responsibility as coaches to not only make our players aware of the mental skills needed to succeed in competition, but also to teach them how to develop these skills. Teaching players how to develop mental skills is…

LCC volleyball adds two recruits to spring roster (Lamar Daily News)
Lamar Community College volleyball head coach Teale Hemphill announced the signing of two new student-athletes to NJCAA national letters of intent. Kristin Bell, a 5′9″ outside hitter, and Keri Lind, a 5′7″ right side hitter, will join the Runnin’ Lopes team this spring and will compete next fall.

BYU volleyball stays perfect with win over No. 8 UCSB (CougarBlue)
Darnell Dickson DAILY HERALD After a white-hot start on Friday, the BYU men’s volleyball team found itself trailing 25-20 in Game 4 and staring at a fifth game against UC-Santa Barbara.

Chiefs take down GHS volleyball (Gaylord Herald Times)
CHEBOYGAN - The momentum was short-lived. The Gaylord volleyball team couldn’t capitalize on a 25-22 victory in the first game Thursday as host Cheboygan won the next three games in a non-conference match.

Four Keys to Excellent Serve Receive
A big concern for volleyball players and coaches is how to perfect that serve receive. Coach Tom Houser breaks it down into four basic areas of the succesful serve receive….

QUITMAN PLAYERS, WILBURN HEAD ALL-ET VOLLEYBALL (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
Next season, Quitman’s Keith Guyon expects to learn how good a volleyball coach he is. Most of his best players will have graduated by then. This past season, Guyon enjoyed more success than any other coach in the area.

Mervyn Fernandopulle outstanding Sri Lanka volleyball player (Daily News)
VOLLEYBALL is a game for two teams of six persons, volleying a large ball by hand over a net, the aim being to ground it in the opponents’ court (from French volee, Latin-volare-fly).

And the Miss Volleyball finalists are … (Detroit Free Press)
Jenni Thunberg has proof that the Michigan Interscholastic Volleyball Coaches Association’s Miss Volleyball award is gaining popularity. “More coaches want to get involved,” said Thunberg, the varsity coach at Bay City Central. “More coaches are asking to be on the committee and we’re getting more nominations from different parts of the state.