PARENT CORNERSelecting a club volleyball team for your daughter can be an intimidating and fretful experience. Here are some resources from USA Volleyball that may help you in selecting the right team for your daughter. While many of the resources are directed towards coaches, those individuals that we put in charge of our daughter's volleyball development, it is also interesting reading for parents. They also shed insight into the Coaching Philosophy of Diamond State Volleyball.
Dear Vocal Coach – Reflections on why so many coaches fail to follow core teaching principles seen in the classroom, when they step onto the court to teach a game.
Never be a Child’s Last Coach – This Grow the Game Together blog article shares insights in how to help your players learn to love the game with your coaching that focuses on giving them a love of the game, so each of your players continue in sport after they leave your coaching.
The Game Teaches the Game – Remember how you learned to ride a bike? Did your parents put you through bike riding drills or progressions? Did they hire a bike riding coach or send you to a bike riding camp? The value of play and reading woven into the game as it teaches, which is tied into Establishing a Culture of Play.
Kessel's Handy Guide to Ruining a Player - A humorous by powerful look at ways coaches teach on and off the court which might not be as effective as once thought….
Sports Parenting Information - Tips, ideas and links on how to be a better parent of an athlete.
Volleyball Education - You expect your athlete to constantly improve and develop as a player. You should expect the same from your coach.