Diane Harms: Essential Drills & Skills for Youth Volleyball

with Diane Harms,
Dike-New Hartford High School (IA) Head Coach;
9x Iowa High School State Champions;
2022 National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame;
over 1,000 wins as a head coach

Features and benefits of the video:

• Learn drills to teach fundamental volleyball skills to your youth
• Understand the basic skills and techniques necessary to develop young volleyball players
• Pick up advice on how to structure a practice to teach volleyball skills
• See all skills taught and performed by young players in a live coaching clinic setting

Coach Harms demonstrates an essential collection of fundamental drills and skills to teach youth players ways to learn and play the game. As Harms has demonstrated time and time again, the foundational skills she teaches in this video can lead to fundamentally developing players who are learning the game while having fun, which, as in Harms’ case, can also become a highly fruitful ‘feeder system’ for competent, experienced players in your program in the future!

Watch young players demonstrate all of the fundamental volleyball skills
Coach Harms provides drills and tips to teach your players to pass, set, hit and serve and which skills are best to focus on at a young age. Harms breaks down some of the key elements to watch for while your players are executing these basic skills.

Harms utilizes progressions in simple drills to teach players how to move and how to execute all the fundamental skills.

Utilize tips and terms to help young players learn volleyball
Coach Harms gives advice and verbiage to help your players understand how to execute these core skills. By working with a group of players, she demonstrates how to provide consistent feedback and set expectations for how to execute the drills.

Coach Harms also provides the advice and terminology to give players on how to correct and overcome deficiencies while performing those skills.

Learn strategies to prepare your players to play volleyball matches
Coach Harms helps you focus on teaching the fundamentals while learning to push your players to grow and improve. She discusses the importance of serve receive strategy and how to train your young athletes to work together as a team in serve receive.

Coach Harms takes the long view by reminding coaches that youth volleyball can be “ugly,” but if they are learning fundamental skills, the winning and losing isn’t the most important outcome.

Coach Harms shares years of experience with coaching players from a young age to prepare them to play in her high school program. She shares how to provide the instruction that pays off with skills that last throughout a player’s career. Coach Harms provides an excellent example of patience while also pushing players to be successful with a system that has clearly worked for her school system’s volleyball program.

48 minutes. 2024.