Coaching Youth Volleyball

Teach volleyball using game-like drills and promote a love of the game

Fun, safety and effective instruction are the focus of the fourth edition of Coaching Youth Volleyball. This book helps you create an environment that promotes learning, cultivates a love of the game and motivates your athletes to turn out year after year.

A volleyball coaching book with a difference

Numerous coaching books present the skills and drills of volleyball, but here's a book that teaches you how to convey those skills to your athletes in an engaging and positive manner. Coaching Youth Volleyball's focus on teaching volleyball skills through game-like drills sets it apart from the current line-up of volleyball coaching books.

• Welcome to Coaching
• Welcome from USA Volleyball
• Key to Diagrams
• Drill Finder

• Chapter 1 Stepping into Coaching
• Chapter 2 Communicating as a Coach
• Chapter 3 Understanding Rules and Equipment
• Chapter 4 Providing for Players' Safety
• Chapter 5 Making Practices Fun and Practical
• Chapter 6 Teaching and Shaping Skills
• Chapter 7 Coaching Individual Volleyball Skills
• Chapter 8 Coaching Transition and Alignment
• Chapter 9 Coaching on Game Day
• Chapter 10 Developing Season and Practice Plans

• Appendix A: Related Checklists and Forms
• Appendix B: Volleyball Terms
• Appendix C: 12 Game-like Drills
• About ASEP

The fourth edition of Coaching Youth Volleyball is recommended by USA Volleyball and was written by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) with volleyball expertise provided by Diana Cole, director of coaching education programs for USA Volleyball, and John Kessel, director of membership development and disabled programs. USA Volleyball's Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP) accepts ASEP's Coaching Youth Volleyball Online Course as a CAP module equivalent for certification purposes.

USA Volleyball is the national governing body for the sport of volleyball in the United States and is recognized by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) and the Uinted States Olympic Committee (USOC). Its membership includes more than 200,000 players, coaches, officials and parents.

ASEP has been developing and delivering coaching education courses since 1981. As the nation's leading coaching education program, ASEP works with national, state and local sport organisations to develop educational programs for coaches, officials, administrators and parents. These programs incorporate ASEP's philosophy of 'Athlete's first, winning second.'