archiveVideo Training Tip: Visual Ball Tracking
Coach Mike Hebert, University of Minnesota, explains how overload visual training enhances ball tracking.
Drill for Success: Dig and Pursuit Drill
This drill improves ball pursuit response.
Player begins with back to coach. Upon hearing her name, she will turn and defend the attacks from the coach. The coach will enter two balls. First, a hard hit ball directly to the player who digs the ball. Immediately, the coach will tip a ball to any part of the court. The defender must pursue the second ball and attempt to keep that ball off the floor. The goal is for the player to successfully play both balls entered by the coach. Every successful dig counts as a point. To complete the drill, the player must get 10 points.
Rules Trivia
Marcia Alterman, NCAA Rules interpreter, clarifies late libero replacement rules.
FACT OR FICTION? The first time that a late libero replacement (after the service beckon) occurs in a set, play is stopped and the team at fault is assessed a delay sanction.
FICTION! NCAA Rule 12.2.2.1 says: “A replacement made after the authorization for service but before service contact is not rejected, but a verbal warning is issued. Subsequent late replacement in the match result in a delay sanction.” So, the first late replacement is not a sanction, just a verbal warning.
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