Coaching Volleyball Successfully: The Usvba Coaching Accreditation Program and American Coaching Effectiveness Program Leader Level Volleyball Book (Paperback)

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Coaching Volleyball Successfully concentrates on teaching the club, junior high, or high school coach how to explain, demonstrate, and direct the practice of fundamental skills and strategies of volleyball. This book is not limited to teaching coaches how to perform required volleyball skills, but rather focuses on how to teach these skills to young or inexperienced athletes. The book is also designed to help coaches with high-level sport skills tailor their instruction to meet the basic needs of beginning players.

Used as the text for Level 1 of USA Volleyball’s Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP), this book is full of proven techniques that make it ideal for home study and as a reference at team practices. Because coaching involves two distinct functions, teaching skills and organizing practices, Coaching Volleyball Successfully is divided into two sections.

The Volleyball Coaching Guide details how to perform and teach fundamental volleyball skills and includes over 40 drills and activities to help your players improve their skills quickly.

The Volleyball Planning Guide explains how to plan your season and conduct effective practices with ready-to-use practice plans that will help prepare your players for their first match.

About the Author

William J. Neville, head coach of the national men's volleyball team, is one of the foremost authorities on volleyball in the United States. He has coached three Olympic volleyball teams, first as an assistant for the 1968 U.S. men's team, then as head coach of the 1976 Canadian men's team, and finally as an assistant for the gold-medal winning 1984 U.S. men's team. Neville was technical director for the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA)--know called USA Volleyball--from 1986 to 1988. While with the USVBA, he was responsible for initiating their Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP), which prepared him to put together this guide for more effective coaching.

About USA Volleyball

USA Volleyball (USAV)--formerly the US Volleyball Association--is the nation's governing body for the sport from the youth club level to the Olympics. The objective of USAV is to promote volleyball and make playing volleyball accessible to all Americans. To that end, USAV established its Coaching Accreditation Program (CAP). CAP accreditation provides volleyball coaches at all levels with standards for effective teaching, organization, drilling, practicing, and planning.

Product Details

• Paperback: 203 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (January 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880113626
• ISBN-13: 978-0880113625
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #95,260 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good basic book, with good perspective, January 21, 2000

By	P. Wung "Engineering is my vocation, volleyba... (Tipp City, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is used as the textbook for the first level of the Coaching Accreditation Program for USA Volleyball. It has a good broad perspective on the game, how to motivate and how to teach the skills. It also goes the through season and practice planning and breaks down the process in a very basic manner, which I found very useful.

A great beginning coach's book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Coaching Book Available, July 21, 1995

By A Customer

Bill Neville breaks a season/practice/match into simple parts which he then walks you through progressions. This book will help the starting coach up through experienced high school coaches. Get this book today if you want to improve your volleyball coaching.