How to Conduct a Volleyball Tryout

Volleyball necessitates that players work together as a team in order to secure the desired end result. Although a variety of skills are important for volleyball, including serving, spiking and endurance, how well your team meshes and works as a unit is one of the most important aspects of a volleyball tryout. When holding volleyball tryouts, look for endurance and skill, but also which players have the best attitude and ability to cooperate with others.

Things You'll Need

  • Volleyball players, two volleyball courts, a clipboard
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Instructions

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      Explain to those who wish to try out exactly what you expect and what you'd like them to wear. This can be accomplished through a packet or information sheet or placed on your school or company's website.

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      Spread the tryouts over two or three days. Designate a day for testing endurance and a day for testing skills. You can combine the skill-testing day with scrimmages or add a third day to the tryouts.

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      Test your would-be team's endurance by doing drills similar to what you would likely do in practice. Have those trying to make the team run or do conditioning exercises. Prospective players should have enough endurance to last for the length of the game.

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      Ask the candidates to practice jumping and sprinting. To some coaches, agility and high jumps are just as important as endurance. Test these in the middle of a fitness test to see how well a player can gather bursts of energy after playing volleyball for an extended period of time.

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      Use the second day to test skills. Have each player warm up and then show his or her volleyball skills one at a time by serving, passing to one another, setting, spiking and hitting. This will help you determine which players have the best skills and where to place players when composing the team.

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      Cut players after this point. Then use the best candidates in a scrimmage to determine how well they play in a game setting and who will work best in which position.

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      Hold several scrimmages, placing players in different positions. Take note of how well each player performs in a game and how well they work with one another and as a unit. Put together as many combinations of players as time will allow to see how well they will mesh with one another.