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USAV Collaborates on NFHS Certification Program
The NFHS, in conjunction with USAV and the AVCA, has launched a national certification program for interscholastic coaches with the Level 1 Accredited Interscholastic Coach certificate. Read More
CAP Article: Game-Like Training
Game-like training is a simple idea. It is the notion that athletes will learn to play the game of volleyball better by practicing the whole game rather than practicing the individual skills involved in the sport in an isolated manner. Read More
USAV, WinCraft Announce Licensing Partnership
USA Volleyball has signed an exclusive multi-year licensing agreement with WinCraft establishing it as an official licensee of USA Volleyball products in multiple retail, promotional and volleyball club channels. Read More
Shoji Reaches Exclusive Grand Club
Dave Shoji became just the second NCAA Division I women's volleyball coach to reach 1,000-career victories after the University of Hawaii defeated New Mexico State on Oct. 17, 2009. Read More
Reno Hosts 2010 USAV Girls' Junior Nationals
USA Volleyball has awarded the 2010 USA Volleyball Girls’ Junior National Championships to the City of Reno in Nevada. The competition will be held June 24 to July 3 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Read More
B.A.D. Represents USA at World Masters Games
A United States-based volleyball team will be competing in the 50-plus age division of the World Masters Games being held Oct. 11-18 at Sydney, Australia. Read More
Loessberg Leads Two Lives in Volleyball, Marines
Cassie Loessberg (Sacramento, Calif.), a heralded libero for the University of Miami women's volleyball team, leads two distinct lives that she must be committed 100 percent in volleyball and the Marine Corp. Read More
USAV Member Looking for Votes
USA Volleyball member Tiffany Morales of Long Beach, Calif., needs your vote to advance in the running for 2009 Sports Illustrated Kid of the Year. Read More
Tiara and Volleyballs Do Mix for Moore
Kelsey Moore, a 6-2 redshirt freshman middle blocker at University of Texas at El Paso, will trade volleyballs and kneepads for evening gowns and swimsuits as part of the 2010 Miss USA Pageant in April. Read More
Volleyball, Role Models Go Together at NDSU
Christopher Gabriel writes about the quick bond between he and his family developed with the North Dakota State University volleyball team, including his daughter Caleigh watching her first volleyball match and finding a role model in Lauren McLaughlin. Read More
Maine Games Holds Third Annual HS Tourney
The Maine Games held its third annual high school volleyball tournament at Greely High School on Sept. 19. The event was supported by the ALS Association of Northern New England, the Portland North Volleyball Club, and the Maine Volleyball Project. Read More
Austin to Host 2010 JO Boys' Championship
The 2010 USA Junior Olympic Boys' Volleyball Championship will be held at the Austin Convention Center June 30 to July 7 in Austin, Texas. Read More
Coach Gives Back to Young Native Americans
South Dakota State University women's head coach Nana Allison-Brewer is helping young Native American volleyball players achieve their dreams. Read More
Bishop Shanahan HS at the Top in PA
For Bishop Shanahan High School of Downington, Pa., its volleyball program cannot hide the behind an anonymity curtain in 2009 as has it emerged as the top-ranked team in the state Read More
Olympic Caliber Nutrition
Aaron Brock, director of Sports Medicine and Performance to the U.S. National Teams, offers 10 nutritional areas volleyball players of all levels can take to increase performance on the court. Read More
Boys', Men's VB on Upswing in North Carolina
Basketball has always been the sport of choice for boys and men in North Carolina. But there are people working to improve volleyball's position in the state. Read More
Gateway Region Stresses Importance of Coach Education
The Gateway Region has developed a comprehensive coaches education program aimed at raising the level of coaching quality in the region, as well as enhancing player's experiences. Read More
Obama Establishes Office of Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport
U.S. President Barack Obama announced June 16 the formation of the White House Office of Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport, which has been fully endorsed by the USOC, which USA Volleyball also enthusiastically welcomes. Read More
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One of the things that I find fascinating is the "volleyball canyon" regarding the mental game. To read about more of these gaps between what the game itself contains, and what coaches train in practice,
To Sit or Stand During Matches?
This week I got an email from a coach, who asked a great question - sit or stand during match play? Bill, a coach in GEVA, and Peter, from the USOC who I collaborate a lot with on the science of volleyball, have kindly said I can use our email discussion in today's blog, so here goes:… Read More
The Tragedy of the Commons
I am starting with a look back into an article that remains timely in this day and age, Garret Hardin's 1968 piece called "The Tragedy of the Commons." Many decades ago, I graduated from Colorado College with a degree focusing on bionomics. My thesis," Towards a Resourced… Read More
National Conversations on Good Coaching
Almost a year ago, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA ), a Stanford University-based non-profit organization dedicated to transforming youth sports and USAV Affiliated Organization, joined with USA Volleyball and seven other of the nation's top youth sports groups -… Read More
The Loser's Club
The Loser's Club and Playing Blind
One of the things about YouTube is the way contests I would never have had the chance to "see" are now things I can enjoy and learn from. The clip below by a blind piano contestant, who just made the top 12 of this year's Van Cliburn, share today… Read More
Olympism and the New White House Off …
The White House yesterday announced the forming of the Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sports office. I sent out news of this last night to some friends and leaders with the correct phrasing in my opinion of the new formation of the Youth, Paralympic and Olympic Sports office. More than a few… Read More
Tennis Anyone?
Warming up on the beach with your partner has two very powerful messages that indoor players and coaches need to listen to so that more kids find success earlier in the challenges of our sport.
First is the tradition/culture of Dig/Pass-set-hit to warm up with.… Read More
Father's Day and Volleyball
My father was my role model in countless ways, and I have done my best raising my kids as a single dad to follow in his World War II veteran footsteps. Fly Fishing, backpacking, skiing, and more, my kids have also done. It may also come as no surprise that both my kids love to play… Read More
Volleyball and Fly Fishing
I got a new Orvis Helios 3wt recently. Made from the same carbon fiber they use on the Apache helicopters, it is feather light at 1.75 ounces total, and strong as heck, for casting into the afternoon winds along my favorite little streams. The science of technology amazes me, yet in our sport it… Read More
Joy in Volleyball
Today, the USA Junior Olympic Boys' Volleyball Championships…
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Beachroots Volleyball in Vanuatu
I have come back to where my grandfather, father and a guy named James Michener once travelled and worked. My grandfather John Fitzgerald, based out of the Tahiti, fighting to eradicate the dreaded Elephantiasis disease from all the thousands of islands, for the World Health… Read More
More Volleyball From Vanuatu
Espiritu Santo...Wrecks to Rainforest -- Vanuatu, Discover untouched seclusion and beauty...that is what Carte de Luganville - the map of this town says.... To see and do here? World class diving, SS President Coolidge, Million Dollar Point, pristine coral reefs...game fishing....adventure… Read More
Landslide
What do Tori Amos, Smashing Pumpkins, Dixie Chicks, The Dance, and Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac all have in common? Whether acapella, acoustic guitar, solo piano, or more - each have sung the powerful song "Landslide" in a beautiful way, and those songs I have been playing over and over on my… Read More
Back to My Iowa Grassroots
I have come back to the place that my coaching of coach's journey really began, to a land where nighthawks cry at dusk. Indeed, the 17 year cicadas are now on their third generation since those times, and still vibrate out their amazingly loud ascending and descending song from… Read More
A Tale of Two Worlds (Championships)
by Erik Shoji, 2009 Men's Junior National Team Player
Hi, my name is Erik Shoji and I am from Honolulu, Hawaii. I am currently a sophomore at Stanford University, and have played libero for the USA Youth and Junior National Team the past four years. I have participated in… Read More
Opening Match Victory at World Masters Games
Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009
Today was our first match at 9 am against the local Australian team. Thank goodness we were able to squeeze in a practice the previous night because the ball moves differently here. It has a lot more movement on serves and we have had to adjust our… Read More
Introducing our Team at World Masters Games
There are two Pools for the 50+ age division that stats on Oct. 11 and continues through Oct. 14:
Pool A
Clube Curitibano - Brazil
Zuvedra - Lithuania
Funrock 50s - Australia
Brasil Plus - Brasil
Chequers WA - Australia
Pool… Read More
On the Ground for World Masters Games
Our division for women’s 50+ has 9 teams participating from Brazil, Australia, Lithuania and our sole American contingency. Our pool play will start at 0900 tomorrow Sunday Oct. 11th in the Sports Hall across from our hotel, on the far end of the Olympic Park just beyond the Olympic flame… Read More
Reflections on Open Gym
My son Cody is a senior at the oldest high school here in Colorado Springs. We decided together to start a volleyball club at his school this year, to help grow the boy's high school club program. He is also captaining the varsity lacrosse team again this spring, as an attackman, and by my… Read More
Tryouts and Our Deepest Fear
Tryouts can bring out our deep fears, as the talent pyramid begins its inexorable narrowing. From six elementary schools teams, to a couple or so junior high 7th grade teams. From the those junior highs to the one high school program, an onward into the college level. No athlete… Read More
A Long Month of Champions
This is may be the best volleyball "month" in the year -- from late October in Wyoming to mid-December this year in Florida-- as some 49 states host district, regional and then final State High School Championships, while the NCAA and NAIA see their over 1,500… Read More
May We Please Leave a Court Up?
Over 20 years ago I was working with the University of Colorado program, working with several club teams to merge them into a single varsity program. In this process, I reached one of my top 10 goals in volleyball, that of having a single volleyball court always up for any level of play to… Read More
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