Team Building Activities for Volleyball

Volleyball, like many other sports, requires teamwork. The ability to compete as a team is part practice and part intuition. The better the members of your team know and trust one another, the better they will react to each other on the court. To increase this knowledge and trust, use team building exercises as a regular part of team activities to build the players into one cohesive unit.

  1. Socialize

    • Volleyball teams automatically have the sport in common, but expanding on this common ground can be difficult when the players are confined to the court. Taking the volleyball team out of the volleyball environment to socialize in other parts of life will bring them closer together and help to smooth out personality conflicts within the team, according to SelfGrowth.com. Take the team on a non-volleyball related outing such as a pizza dinner, the bowling alley, or another place where the coaching staff will refrain from any volleyball talk. This experience can help players take their guard down and cease worrying about performance for a few hours and it will help them relate to one another on a more personal level.

    One On One

    • Volleyball is a team sport usually played with six players, but practicing one-on-one can help players get used to the tendencies and playing habits of their teammates, according to Volleyball.com. Two players can play one-on-one over the net on the actual court or anywhere else where they can move freely about 10 yards apart. This type of practice simply consists of hitting and bumping the ball back and forth between two people for a period of time. It is beneficial to pair up players who play on the same team in this way on a regular basis. Over time the players will learn to recognize the style and tendencies of their teammate and will then be able to anticipate what they will do on the court during actual play. This type of forced chemistry on a volleyball team can make the squad a tough opponent.

    Send Them To Camp

    • While getting away from volleyball to socialize is a good way to build team chemistry, getting deeper into the sport can be just as effective. Schedule your team for a camp that requires the team to stay for several days with hotel or dorm accommodations. The team will take part in a variety of drills and competitive games with their teammates and will spend the time in the evenings after the camp activities are over talking about the day's activities and life in general with one another. Players will often feel free to speak about the game with one another in the coach's absence, which can be beneficial to the closeness of the team and they'll be learning quality skills as well.