Mother McAuley (IL) High School Girls' Head Coach; 2013 Illinois High School Class 4A State Champs;
Founder of Michio Chicago Volleyball Club
The section on situational serving alone makes this video worth the money! - Shawn Stoliker, Millbrook (NY) High School Varsity Volleyball Coach
Jen DeJarld helps coaches understand the serving strategies and skills that are necessary to disrupt an opponent's offense. In this presentation, Coach DeJarld demonstrates how to properly warm up with serving technique as the focus. She introduces all the different types of serves and the strategies necessary to make them effective, and presents a series of drills that help servers work on their technique and placement.
Active Warm-Up
Coach DeJarld begins with an active warm up that shows partner drills where players contact the ball back and forth to each other while working on their control and technique. These controlled drills are where players should be aware of the body mechanics during contact, which will help with accurate placement and consistency. The partner drills will be very useful for high school and club players who are trying to get better at serving where they want the ball to go. Throughout this segment Coach DeJarld discusses different types of serves such as float, topspin, jump float and jump float spin.
Serving Drills
Coach DeJarld presents serving drills that help players improve serving to different locations. This helps prepare players to serve aggressively with the intent to disrupt their opponent's offense. She shows her four corners drill, which is a great multi-purpose drill that gets athletes to work on serving from different areas of the court, as well as to different areas of the court. The drill puts great emphasis on serving down the line, cross court, short, and deep corners.
Situational Serving
The last set of drills Coach DeJarld explains work on situational serving. Here you will learn how to serve at different types of rotations and offenses that opponents may be using. The goal of the situational serving is to disrupt the opponents' offense, take them out of system or to stop their best hitter. The situational serving drill goes into great detail on how serving can help teams win games.
High school and lower level college coaches will instantly improve their chances of winning with the serving strategies introduced in this video. By using the drills players will be prepared to execute strategies that will disrupt their opponents offense by taking them out of system.
Produced at the 2014 AVCA Spring Clinic in Chicago, IL.
54 minutes. 2015.