Are you ready for Club Tryouts?

Two sessions to help you be ready. Club tryouts are right around the corner, and coaches will be looking for two skills over all the others.   These two are the first ones to start a rally, serving and passing.  For this reason, we have organized a special serving session (Pre-tryout serving session) on Monday, October 11, 2021, and a digging session on Thursday, October 14, 2021.  These sessions are both 7-9 pm. The basic fundamentals will be from 7-8 pm, and the more advanced will be 8-9 pm.  Athletes are welcome to come to one or both of the times. Three Mini Camps Coming in November If COVID allows November sessions, we will see three mini camps. The mini-camps will see skill training for three hours, two hours of jump training and 2 hours of gameplay. The Age 11-13 Mini Camp will be on November 2-4th November 2 – 5-6 skill training and 6-7 jump training November 3 – 5-6 skill Training November 4 – 5-6 skill training, 6-7 jump training and 7-9 gameplay   The Junior High School Mini Camp will be on November 16-18th November 16 – 5-6 skill training and 6-7 jump training November 17 – 5-6 skill Training November 18 – 5-6 skill training, 6-7 jump training and 7-9 gameplay   The Senior High School Mini Camp will be on November 23-25th November 23 – 5-6 skill training and 6-7 jump training November 24 – 5-6 skill Training November 25 – 5-6 skill training, 6-7 jump training and 7-9 gameplay   For more information, check out the link below. Jump Training will continue in November We have some very dedicated jump training athletes in our group and we will continue to offer this for the month of November The club tryouts are creating a lot of stress in younger athletes.  Here are my thoughts about the way to approach the conversation.  Volleyball is a game. It is meant to be fun.  A position on a club team is earned by the work put in before you try out.  If you go into tryouts with no work before, then you are a person who believes that everyone should get a ribbon just for having a heartbeat. The club system is competitive, and players should understand that when they pay team fees, they pay for practices, not games. Games should be looked at as a bonus and something you earn by putting in the time.   Equal playing time is not a game element.  Equal playing time is something that should happen in pick-up games, in playgrounds, in your backyard, during recess, before and after school.   If you think the sport owes you a team to play on, and when you make the team the right to play the same amount as everyone else, you miss the most significant lesson sport can teach participants.   Anything of value needs to be earned.  You do not earn it on a team.  You display your skills in a game and at a team practice.  Team practice is where you learn to meld your skills with the other teammates.  You earn it in informal settings (shameless plug coming) or at academy skill sessions.  Take a ball and train, earn the right to display your skill on a team.  Put some time in yourself without a coach in front of you and see what skill level you can reach. Every once in a while Dr. Darren Cannell shares....