Dear Coaches-
We are excited to have you part of the Badger Region for the 2013 season! Below we have listed some resources which you might find helpful, including materials on refereeing and scorekeeping that you can review on your own and with your teams beyond the training that you’ve already had with your club.
Please let us know what we can do to help support, promote and improve your teams and programs this season. Continued luck for those who have started and best of luck for those who are about to begin!
The Badger Region Staff
Other Resources:
Additional Information from USA Volleyball:
FREE WEBINARS – For the fourth year in a row, USA Volleyball will host and record webinars on topics to help players, coaches and parents, including our USA Team Great player series – including Tara Cross-Battle, Tom Hoff, Lori Endicott, Gabe Gardner and more. There are also new general topics like – injury prevention, sitting volleyball, motor learning, increasing the contacts per hour, sports parent tips and more. CAP certified coaches may purchase CAP re-certification credit after attending these live free webinars. Contact the USAV Education Department for more information. Just head over to the grassroots page and click on FREE Webinars on the lefthand sidebar to view the many topics when time allows.
GROW THE GAME TOGETHER NEWSLETTER - Sometimes at the club level, the coaches and club leaders are inundated with information overload. USA Volleyball sends out multiple information pieces to the regions to help them conduct a smooth operating organization for all their members. We also have excellent connections for research and informative articles, webinars, books, videos, blogs and other useful coaching and leadership information that we like to share. We will be collecting, sorting and sending you bi-monthly a compiled version of the most important material we find. This is a USA Volleyball member benefit to help you as a coach and director at the club level. Feel free to help us grow the game together by forwarding this information to those in the volleyball family who are not members of USA Volleyball. We love to hear from our coaches and club directors, so feel free to send along your own finds, needs and ideas to
mvp@usav.org - As a new coach, if you have not seen the newsletter, or want back issues, email patty.fadum@usav.org and we will get you caught up.
LIBERTY MUTUAL RESPONSIBLE SPORTS PROGRAM – Volleyball specific material for Responsible Coaches and for Responsible Parents is being created, to tie into the great material already online with Responsible Sports…
CLICK HERE for more info.
FREE VOLLEYBALL MATERIAL – Check with your USAV Region to get some of material in hard-copy form, or contact USAV Region Services for help. Electronic downloads are available for many of these FREE items, and can be downloaded from the USAV website by click on the links below.
* SKILL POSTERS and more - FREE to download …Note that 16x20 sizes can be run off one at a time from Costco/Sam’s Club for about $6, while the larger 20x30 (which you might want in the gym) costs about $9. You can also print these at home/school on an 11x17 inkjet printer. Each discipline, volleyball, beach volleyball and Paralympic sitting volleyball has a skill series of all six skills.
* COMPASSION POSTER CREATIONS - “Aim High”, “Perseverance” and other FREE inspirational themed posters can be customized for injured or ill athletes. Each will include photos of USAV Olympic and Paralympic players, a picture of the athlete needing support, and inspirational phrases. Contact us at mvp@usav.org for more information.
* CARRON 4 ON ONE ROPE YOUTH NET - For both school and club use, to either go down the middle of your club/school team training court for the start of practice, or for the entire practice and competition for minivolley teams of 2, 3, or 4 per court – from sideline basket to sideline, as we discussed in the youth section of IMPACT. Each system is four 15 foot nets on one rope, custom made for USAV, costing just $100 each, shipping included. Email patty.fadum@usav.org to place an order – you will be billed by PayPal.
* USOC/USAV “Olympic Journeys Begin Here” BUMPER STICKER – Display this proudly to support the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams in their countdown to London 2012. Get one from the USA Volleyball Facebook page free of charge (you just have to mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope!), or ask your RVA Commissioner for some for your team or club (supplies limited).
* USAV COURT NUMBER SIGNS – Great if you need court signage for your practice or event. Contact your Region for a RVA custom set, or print out your own set. Click on the following links to the USAV website:
11x17 one-sided paper print or normal
8.5x11 one-sided paper print. Print twice, and fasten with tape in the space at the top of the net outside the antenna.
* Click on these links to access numerous resources for the New Coach and Club Director.
As valued adult leaders of our sport, we also wanted you to make sure you are aware of:
Some important recent blogs –
LONGEST RALLIES AWARDS - Since good education begins with the end in mind, to show what is possible and to be worked towards, check out this compilation showing the longest rallies in all areas of our game, beach and sitting included. If you have a rally (can you beat the #1 listing, 30 net crossings and 78 contacts!?) that beats an award area, send the link to
mvp@usav.org and we will add it!
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Grassroots/Longest-Rallies-Awards.aspx
Thank you for helping us grow the game!
