Chelsea Speaks won a Bronze Medal in club as a setter then played for Fresno Pacific University for four years. She had to switch to libero in order to get on the court and she did! Check out her story of competition and fierce determination!

Sophomore Outside Hitter Taimani Toilolo joins The VolleyNerd Podcast to discuss dealing with mental health as an athlete. She goes into her ups and downs and how they have led her to become who she is today.

Top club coach Luis Cuatok explains practical applications of how honesty, personal awareness, and progress all work together to help our athletes become the best they can be!

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Maximizing the potential of our athletes is one huge goal for coaches. Top club coach Luis Cuatok examines practical ways to help our athletes build their awareness of themselves and experience their full potential.

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Getting recruited to play college volleyball is a huge challenge even if you are a star in high school and club. Incoming Cal Poly Pomona setter Colleen Kennedy shares her recruiting story and how she ended up deciding on Cal Poly Pomona through the highs and the lows of the recruiting process.

Playing volleyball and whole training are great, but there are even faster ways to accelerate our athletes’ learning. Coach Tod Mattox from The Art of Coaching and the Head Coach at The Bishops School, goes in depth on practical methods that we can use right now to help our athletes fulfill their highest potential.

This practice template can be applied to a lot of different practice goals, has a lot of application to the match, and has a cumulative effect. Steal it!

Mastering the fundamentals of motor learning allows coaches to help their athletes speed up their learning. Who doesn’t want to speed up learning?

Coaching experience is a huge benefit when it comes to helping your players, as long as you learn for each experience! Beloved youth coach Sean Thomas explains his philosophy and how to make the most out of each day.

How can coaches make sense of all the experience they have? How does he “coach like jazz”? Beloved Coach Sean Thomas goes into how to make the most out of each experience for your athletes and for yourself as a coach. Part 1 of 2