WOW! What an outstanding practice tonight. The girls techniques, especially passing are looking so good and our free ball drills were really solid at the end of practice. It’s nice to see them putting together good clean pass-set-swing plays. Our setters are really stepping up their game as well!
Our session started with a 3 station 20 second per station rotation that we did 3 times. Today was mainly plyo and speed work using our jump box, floor line, and stationary benches.
After that our on court work began with normal arm warm up and hand to ball contact drills. From there we went right to passing drills including perfects, corner drills for the first time, and triangle passing for the first time. Corner drill and triangle passing are drills that focus on getting feet behind the ball and turning hips towards the target before the pass. Corner drill is really a habit drill in that doing it once doesn’t really help the player improve, but doing it on a regular basis trains your mind and body to move a certain way and to naturally get behind the ball without really thinking about it.
From that we did a butterfly passing drill in which the girls really kicked some butt. It was at this point in the practice that I knew we were getting it. The knocked out 50 perfect passes with coach Dave and I hitting down balls in about 3 minutes!
We finished off the night with some freeball drills. We put all six girls on the court in their position using a back row setter and then popped free balls in and let them play it out. We were very impressed with what we saw. If we can get our setters transitioning a bit quicker, get our middles expecting the ball, and get our right sides to reach high all the time…we might be pretty decent 
I’m so pumped to have everyone at practice tonight as we get ready for our scrimmage on saturday!!!
Viva!
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Tags: Practice, Practices, Session Notes, Session Updates, Sessions, toledo, Toledo Revolution, Toledo Revolution Volleyball, Toledo Volleyball, TR Volleyball