JVA

Stories By JVA

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  Junior

  / 3 weeks ago

  Coaching Mental Performance: Team Identity and Value Systems

  Despite a club’s best intentions to make sure all coaches are maintaining consistent verbiage across age groups and skill levels, and...

  By JVA
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  Youth

  / 2 months ago

  Coaching Mental Performance: Reinforcement and Punishment

  After the season I always find it appropriate to challenge coaches to reflect on how their teams formed and performed throughout...

  By JVA
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  Youth

  / 3 months ago

  Teach your team to embrace and respond to the randomness of Volleyball

  I attended the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul over 20 years ago.  The USA men went on to win the...

  By JVA
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  Youth

  / 4 months ago

  Coaching Mental Performance: Termination Conversations

  The season is coming to a close and the last tune-up tournaments are taking place before the big National events. It’s...

  By JVA
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  Youth

  / 4 months ago

  Club Training Model: End of Season

  Teams who are attending Nationals in June have the month of May and much of June to prep for a Championship....

  By JVA
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  Youth

  / 5 months ago

  Master Training Philosophy and Execution for 12U-18U

  Illini Elite utilizes the master training philosophy for all of its programs from camps and clinics to youth teams and high...

  By JVA
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  Youth

  / 5 months ago

  Coaching Mental Performance: Self-Care for Coaches and Athletes

  Whereas the curriculum was the meat and potatoes of my education at Adler University, the broth was this concept of “self-care”;...

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  Youth

  / 6 months ago

  Coaching Mental Performance: 6 Stages of Behavioral Change and “What to do When…”

  “I keep telling them to… but they don’t want to listen!”“I’ve been telling them that all season, and here it is...

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  Junior

  / 7 months ago

  Coaching Mental Performance: Developing Rapport

  It has been established that a good coach-athlete relationship is paramount for positive performance outcomes at the elite sport level (Gould...

  By JVA
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  Recreational

  / 7 months ago

  Pre-Tournament vs. Post-Tournament Practice

  In my ten years of professional playing experience, I learned that a pre-tournament practice is critical for the team to perform...

  By JVA