Issues & Advice

Stick movement exercises with different sizes and weight implements: small medicine balls, large marbles, smaller pucks, weighted pucks, etc. Jim Radcliffe was the strength and conditioning coach for the gold medal-winning 2018 U.S. Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team, and has more than 30 years of experience at the University of Oregon. He’s played a significant […]

Officials play a very important role and it really is critical that our on-ice officials enforce the USA Hockey standard of play in all areas of the game, including body contact and body checking. No one wants to see anyone get hurt on the ice. As officials, it’s our job to make sure players, coaches […]

Each duel in the bracket, again, taking place on three courts, and just as in pool play, the winner of the duel (so the winner of best of 3 matches) would advance up the bracket. A fast-growing beach volleyball tournament format is the “Club vs. Club” or “School vs. School” format, generally referred to as […]

If you want your goalkeepers to catch a cross, then they must field thousands of crosses with players around them competing for the ball. The other day I got an interesting question via email from a mom of a young travel volleyball player. Her daughter and her team had missed quite a few serves their […]

Find the fun in fundamentals or be prepared for a long season. Reward creativity. Dish out praise. Build confidence levels. Find your inner kid. Dear Coaches: In roughly a month’s time, the opportunity of a lifetime will present itself to you, bringing with it a treasure trove of exhilaration, inspiration, and gratification. This unheralded adventure […]

Don’t keep letting the great ones go without making some changes. Personal reasons, moving to another state, career changes, are unavoidable. Toward the finish line of the season, it is recommended that club directors run some checks and balances to evaluate if your club is running on all cylinders, and identify the changes that can […]

Managing their emotions on a daily basis is really important. The skill level piece of teaching the game, how every kid is on a different level – every kid learns at a different pace and every kid is motivated by something a little bit different. Coaching Q-and-A: Northeastern’s Berman praises small-area games, warns against early […]

It’s not just happening in hockey. It’s happening in all youth sports. It’s happening at home, too – screen time is through the roof with iPads, phones, computers, Fortnite and so on. Can your kid do a right-handed cartwheel? A somersault? Can they throw a baseball or a football? Do they know how to skip? […]

If club’s niche is offering a regional program that is more affordable and time manageable, make that program the best it can be. The increase in junior volleyball participation has led to growth in the number of junior volleyball clubs. New clubs are forming, large clubs are acquiring smaller ones, and on average a club […]

Find a complete list of college volleyball camps near you, and identify which camp is the right one for you to attend. College volleyball camps are a great way to improve your game and get evaluated by coaches. To help you find the right camp, NCSA has compiled a definitive list of every 2019 college […]