The Purpose of a volleyball team.
- Coach AY
- Mar 22, 2019
- 4 min read
Updated: Jul 29, 2019
On Sundays, I coach.
There is a noon session and then I head a bit south to handle the fitness aspect of a friend's club in Cooper City: Edge Performance Beach...( www.epvbc.com ) I work on the weekends. Sure it doesn't help my social life... but it doesn't phase me cause I have a goal in mind.
It has become clear to me over the years that you must be constantly learning if you want to improve. I'm a student of the game. You must be...
Between said Sunday sessions I usually sit at a coffee shop or Lucky's market and study, read, search through volleyball articles or try to write something profound.
However today I found a particular article on the website of a coach I follow.
The purpose of a (Carolina Juniors vb 16's) Team: a blog I found published by Chuck Rey, Head coach of Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Its a short bulleted list of ideas... and I loved them. Its simple and nails the concept.
Here is the original post:
The Purpose of Carolina Juniors Volleyball 16s Team
1. To cultivate a nurturing learning environment that teaches life lessons though volleyball.
2. To encourage a positive and fun volleyball family that focuses on the team without distraction.
3. To establish an unwavering team chemistry from a group of individuals of varying backgrounds.
4. To challenge the team to reach beyond personal comfort zones to achieve something extraordinary.
5. To promote an internal motivation within players to pursue a passionate team mission, superseding all personal agendas, on a daily basis.
6. To empower players to be self-reliant, responsible, discipline, and independent.
7. To consistently train and challenge the team in a way that creatively adapts to individual learning styles.
8. To maximize the team’s physical potential while continually increasing its volleyball intelligence.
9. To develop well rounded athletes, beyond fundamental skills, through conditioning and proper nutrition.
10. To guide parents in daily practices that promotes a healthy living environment and instills positive lifetime habits for their daughters.
11. To offer recruiting advice and opportunities for players with the desire to play in college.
12. To have each player come out of the program with a positive experience and be a more well rounded individual.
13. To be the example, in which other teams and clubs look-up to.
14. To treat others that we encounter (officials, line-judges, opponents, convention staff, restaurant waiters, hotel housekeepers, etc.) with class, dignity and as equals.
15. To respect the game.
The Purpose of a volleyball team
1. To cultivate a nurturing learning environment that teaches life lessons though volleyball.
This sport can ask so much more of us than just physical movement. It can demand emotion. It offers trouble shooting tutorials, lessons in team work, applying peripheral vision, and even the occasional breaking language barriers if you're lucky enough to play in another country. These are all wildly off the beaten path of things you would expect from any sport, but I want to help people understand the bigger picture of what this sport is capable of.
Psychology is something that plays a big role in how you perform on the court. Your skills can even be defined or subdued by your personality. This sport has even helped shape my personality over the years.
2. To encourage a positive and fun volleyball family that focuses on the team without distraction.
We always start off each season with the idea that we will unite on and off the court; of course thats the goal. This sport can form lifelong friend ships that do turn into a family like bond.
3. To establish an unwavering team chemistry from a group of individuals of varying backgrounds.
unwavering is a reach for the stars, but when each player is on board with the team's goals this sport provides the possibility of major accomplishments.
4. To challenge the team to reach beyond personal comfort zones to achieve something extraordinary.
Learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable.... that's a future post all its own.. ;)
5. To promote an internal motivation within players to pursue a passionate team mission, superseding all personal agendas, on a daily basis.
Motivated individuals accomplish more. I think as coaches we try to find ways to "motivate" athletes... but the self motivated ones... the ones that understand how much work in necessary to get the result they're searching for.. those are the leaders.. those are the highly successful ones down the road.
6. To empower players to be self-reliant, responsible, discipline, and independent.
7. To consistently train and challenge the team in a way that creatively adapts to individual learning styles.
Problem solving.
8. To maximize the team’s physical potential while continually increasing its volleyball intelligence.
Team work comes into the real world. The experiences kids go through together teach them how to lead, how to follow, and how to manage problems with coworkers.
9. To develop well rounded athletes, beyond fundamental skills, through conditioning and proper nutrition.
I wish athletes would pay more attention to nutrition!
10. To guide parents in daily practices that promotes a healthy living environment and instills positive lifetime habits for their daughters.
If we can teach kids at a young age good habits, then they will carry over to adulthood.. in theory...
11. To offer recruiting advice and opportunities for players with the desire to play in college.
I don't get enough questions about this process...
12. To have each player come out of the program with a positive experience and be a more well rounded individual.
13. To be the example, in which other teams and clubs look-up to.
14. To treat others that we encounter (officials, line-judges, opponents, convention staff, restaurant waiters, hotel housekeepers, etc.) with class, dignity and as equals.
15. To respect the game.
When I'm coaching I tend to use this phrase. Show respect to the game and respect my time.
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