Volleyball Coaching Wizards Series

Eight master volleyball coaches with experience covering all levels, both genders, all over the world, indoors and on the sand. Their experience, insights, and expertise all in one place, just waiting for you to make them part of your own coaching! Carl McGown: Renown for his 40+ years of work with the USA Men's National Team, the BYU men's college team, and being a promoter of the idea of specificity in volleyball training. Giovanni Guidetti: 2016 Olympic coach for the Dutch Women's National Team and for Turkish professional club Vakifbank. Winner of two CEV Champions Leagues and an FIVB World Club Championship. Ruth Nelson: AVCA Hall of Fame inductee with over 500 NCAA Division I victories alongside coaching at the national team level and in professional volleyball. Now dedicates her time to players under 10. Jefferson Williams: Winner of nearly 60 league and cup titles in the UK. Coached at the national team level for both England and Team GB. Teri Clemens: Won 7 NCAA Division III national championships in 14 years, including 6 in a row. Also won three straight state championships as a high school coach before moving to college volleyball. Garth Pischke: The winningest men's collegiate volleyball coach in North American with nearly 1300 victories in Canada, including 9 national titles and 9 runner-up finishes. Tom Turco: Winner of 17 state high school championships, including a 110 match winning streak. Twice selected National Coach of the Year. Craig Marshall: Australian National Team beach coach for three Olympics. Nearly 20 years coaching on the international professional beach tour. You may know a few of these coaches, at least by reputation. Chances are there are some you've never heard of at all, though. The thing they share is lots of of success in their particular volleyball arena, or in some cases across multiple arenas. They each have things they can share with you about how they got to where they are, including mistakes they've made along the way. What is Volleyball Coaching Wizards? The Volleyball Coaching Wizards project is about identifying great coaches from all categories of volleyball and making their experience, insights, and expertise available to people all over the world. We interview coaches from across the globe, all age groups, both genders, all competitive levels, indoor and beach. They share with us their philosophies, their thought processes, and their methodologies. We then share that with you. This is not about drills and games. There are other great places to get that type of material. Instead, Volleyball Coaching Wizards is about the thinking that surrounds the technical and tactical side of things. It's about letting you see what great volleyball coaches have in common, and where they differ despite all having great success over their career. There are two main goals of the Wizards project. One is to provide information and inspiration to volleyball coaches everywhere. The other is to help develop a real volleyball coaching literature, one which matches what can be found in other sports. About the Authors John Forman is the author of the well-respected coachingvb.com blog. His coaching experience includes Juniors, college, and university in the US and U.K., plus professional coaching in Sweden. Mark Lebedew is currently the Australian Men's National Team Coach and coaches professionally in Poland. He previously coached five seasons in Germany where his teams won three straight league championships and a CEV Champions League bronze medal.

If you could bring more than 40 of the world's best volleyball coaches together, do you think they might have some interesting things to say? That's what we've done with Volleyball Coaching Wizards. This book shares some of those insights. Discover what coaches with tens of thousands of wins and hundreds of championships at all different levels think about things like:     Developing a team culture and good team chemistry     Making non-starters feel like they are important     Getting the most out of your best players     Planning highly effective practice sessions     Ways to get the most from training games     Maintaining a confident team     Managing the team in matches     Being the best coach you can be, now and as you progress Who are these great coaches? We can't list them all, but here are some of those whose wisdom and insight contributed to this book. Jan De Brandt: Professional coach in several countries and internationally for Belgium and Hungary. Winner of the European League, CEV club competition medals, and domestic league and cup titles. Sue Gozansky: Winner of 3 National Championships and nearly 700 NCAA collegiate matches. AVCA Hall of Fame. FIVB coaching instructor. Multiple book author. Giovanni Guidetti: Winner of multiple CEV Champions League gold medals and FIVB Club World Championships. Led the Dutch Women's National team to the medal round of the 2016 Olympics. Mick Haley: NCAA Division I national championships with two different universities. Multiple 2-year college national titles. More than 1000 total victories. US Women's National Team Olympic coach. AVCA Hall of Fame. Vital Heynen: 2014 World Championships bronze medal as German National Team coach. Four league titles, 5 Cups, and 4 Super Cups in Belgium. Two CEV Cup medals. Additional national team experience with Belgium and Poland. Coach of professional teams in Turkey, Poland, France, and Germany. Anders Kristiansson: Winner of 26 men's and women's championships in Sweden, 15 in Belgium, 3 in Greece. CEV Champions League Final Four on four occasions - 2 finals. Coached Sweden to silver at the 1989 European Championships. Carl McGown: Over 40 years experience in the USA National Team program; 13 seasons as head coach at BYU, winning 2 national championships; Swiss league and cup titles; AVCA Hall of Fame. Tom Turco: Winner of nearly 20 state high school championships. AVCA National Coach of the Year in 2008 and NHSCA National Volleyball Coach of the Year in 2012. Teams won a record 110 matches in a row from 2003 to 2007. Take your volleyball coaching to the next level with insights from those who are already at where you want to be! What is Volleyball Coaching Wizards? The Volleyball Coaching Wizards project is about identifying great coaches from all categories of volleyball and making their experience, insights, and expertise available to people all over the world. We interview coaches from across the globe, all age groups, both genders, all competitive levels, indoor and beach. They share with us their philosophies, their thought processes, and their methodologies. We then share that with you. About the Authors John Forman is the author of the well-respected CoachingVB blog. His coaching experience includes Juniors, college, and university in the US and U.K., plus professional coaching in Sweden. Mark Lebedew is currently the Australian Men's National Team Coach and coaches professionally in Poland. He previously coached five seasons in Germany where his teams won three straight league championships and a CEV Champions League bronze medal.

Six master volleyball coaching women with experience covering different levels, across multiple countries, and with varied backgrounds share their stories on the road to success.   Erin Appleman – A US college coach at Yale, where she lead her program to the first ever Ivy League team win in the NCAA tournament.   Audrey Cooper – A Scot who lead Team GB in the 2012 Olympics and has coached both professional and non-professional adult club teams. Denise Corlett – A career US assistant coach at Stanford, where she contributed to multiple national championships.   Ann Schilling – A US high school and juniors coach with an incredible record of success.   Saskia Van Hintum – A Dutch coach who's worked across the levels from juniors to pro and national team indoors, and at the national team level on the beach. Shannon Winzer - A Canadian who started at the adult club level and progressed to national team coaching.   What is Volleyball Coaching Wizards? The Volleyball Coaching Wizards project is about identifying great coaches from all categories of volleyball and making their experience, insights, and expertise available to people all over the world. We interview coaches from across the globe, all age groups, coaching both genders, all competitive levels, indoor and beach. They share with us their philosophies, their thought processes, and their methodologies. We then share that with you. With Wizard Women we take a by women, for women approach. Women in coaching have different challenges than their male colleagues. Those are thing specifically discussed in these interviews, along with everything else. This is not about drills and games. There are other great places to get that type of material. Instead, Volleyball Coaching Wizards is about the thinking that surrounds the technical and tactical side of things. It's about letting you see what great volleyball coaches have in common, and where they differ despite all having great success over their career.   About the Authors Lauren Bertolacci is currently the head coach for the Swiss professional women's team Viteos NUC Volleyball, as well as being the head coach for the Swiss Women's National Team. At NUC her teams have won three straight league championships and three straight Cup titles, and have competed in CEV competition as well. Before NUC, she was the head coach for the Volley Luzern men's team. Prior to taking charge of Switzerland she assisted with the national teams of both Canada and her native Australia. Lauren's coaching career follows a professional playing career, as well as national team experience. John Forman is the author of the well-respected CoachingVB blog and the co-developer of Volleyball Coaching Wizards with his partner Mark Lebedew. His coaching experience includes time in all three NCAA Divisions, as well as at the 2-year college level. He also coached in England at both the university (BUCS) and National League (NVL) Division I levels, and had a stint as head coach in Sweden's top women's league. Additionally, John was a Juniors club director and coach in the New England area for several years. He's also had the good fortune of being a visiting at youth, collegiate, professional, and national teams in a number of different countries.