Today’s guest is Laurie Eisler. She is the Head Coach of the University of Alberta Panda’s and she is also the club president of the Pandas Volleyball Club in Edmonton. Beyond her impressive track record, Laurie is well known for her great leadership in developing young volleyball players. She does presentations on the topic and mentors a few coaches from the youth club she is with. Her approach is simple, whatever you do, it needs to be in line with the context in which your players are evolving.

 

 

In this episode, Laurie talks about why context is so important. She explains why she thinks a lot of youth coaches sometimes prioritize winning over developing players. She also brings a nuance to all the random training talks we have heard of here on Technical Timeout lately and tells us why there is value in training technique with progressions. If you are into that random vs blocked practice debate, this episode will make you think some more.

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