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Coqui Volleyball Club The Premier volleyball club in the Central Mississippi area. Focused on getting players to the collegiate level.

10/06/2026

Coach Gabes local private school playoff picks

10/06/2026

Bigger jumps. Harder swings. Less thought.

My criticism of today’s hitter development: we’re building stronger athletes with fewer answers—and a mindset that falls apart when power stops working.

If you only know how to swing hard, you’re easy to scout. The defense has one problem to solve, and you keep giving them practice.

Where’s your cut shot? Your deep roll? Your sharp angle? Can you tip into open space? Use the hands? Attack high and deep over a smaller block?

Or is your entire offense “hit it harder and hope”?

Your hand is locked into a claw because every contact has to be a hammer. You haven’t developed soft touch, placement, or the patience to choose the right shot.

Then you get blocked and blame the set. Get dug and swing harder. Make an error and disappear for the next three points.

That’s the weak mindset I’m talking about: wanting to look dominant without doing the work to become adaptable.

Study the opponent. Know how they defend. See the blockers. Recognize the space. Give yourself options before you’re forced to find one.

And coaches: stop calling a hitter elite because she jumps high and occasionally buries a ball. If she can’t recognize a favorable matchup or adjust to a defense, there is a hole in her development that athleticism hasn’t fixed.

A spectacular warm-up swing means nothing if you’re predictable when the match starts.

You want to be feared as a hitter? Give the opponent more than one reason to worry.

10/06/2026

If things like this annoy you on the sidelines as a parent then leave.

10/06/2026

When you get that crisp pass

10/05/2026

Some coaches teach players to fear serve receive before they ever teach them to pass.

“This is the hardest part of volleyball.”

Keep repeating that, and don’t act surprised when your players look terrified every time the server looks their way.

Serve receive is simpler than you’re making it. Track the ball. Read its flight. Move your feet. Set your angle. Hold your platform. Stop guessing.

Stay on your feet. Stop dropping to your knees on balls you can pass standing. Once you drop, you give up your ability to keep moving and adjusting. Move to the ball instead of collapsing underneath it.

But first, WANT THE BALL.

If you’re standing there praying they serve your teammate, you’re already giving the server an advantage.

Coaches: quit making a routine skill sound like a survival test. Teach the details. Build confidence. Demand ownership.

Players: stop treating every serve like something to escape.

You’re on the court to pass. Act like you want to.

10/05/2026

Some blockers are standing at the net watching volleyball instead of reading it.

Is the setter front row or back row? Who are the available attackers? Where is YOUR hitter going?

If you can’t answer those questions, what exactly are you paying attention to?

Your hitter moves to attack somewhere else, and you’re still guarding the spot she LEFT. You lost your assignment because you were staring at the ball instead of gathering information.

Then comes the late jump, the desperate reach, and the giant opening the offense gets to attack.

Blocking starts BEFORE the hitter swings. Know the rotation. Identify your responsibility. Track your hitter’s movement. Read the play and adjust.

Being tall and putting your hands over the net doesn’t excuse having no idea what’s happening across it.

And coaches: celebrating a big block while ignoring repeated missed assignments is accepting incomplete development. A player can get a stuff block and still spend the rest of the match completely lost.

Stop letting an occasional highlight excuse a consistent lack of awareness.

You can’t shut down an offense you aren’t paying attention to.

10/05/2026

The game is growing. That doesn’t mean the understanding of the game is growing with it.

“Stand here. Go there. Attack from here.”

Players spend YEARS being told where to go, but how much time is spent teaching them what to SEE?

Then they arrive in college, and we’re teaching things they should have been learning throughout their development: understanding rotations, reading an opponent’s offense, recognizing patterns, gathering information, and making decisions from it.

Yes, I give my players tons of information from the sideline. I point out what the other team is running, what their hitters are doing, and where opportunities are opening up. I also teach them HOW to recognize those things themselves.

That’s coaching. The problem is how many arrive needing that education from the beginning.

A big club name, a college scholarship, or a national team jersey doesn’t automatically mean a player understands the game. Those programs should be held accountable for developing understanding, too.

We’re preparing players to play checkers with one move when they should be learning to play chess—seeing 20 possibilities, anticipating responses, and understanding what comes next.

Knowing your assigned spot isn’t the same as understanding the court. Running a play isn’t the same as knowing WHY it works—or when it won’t.

How do players spend years in competitive volleyball and still struggle to recognize what’s happening across the net?

At some point, we have to question what their development actually included.

Stop confusing trained movements with an educated volleyball player.

10/04/2026

Line defense is easy as long as you get to the line, are stopped, and let them ball hit you.

10/04/2026

Defense is about taking more space and allowing less space for the attacker to hit.
The ball just has to be up

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