College Volleyball Drills

College level drills will focus on advanced volleyball techniques and skills.

College Volleyball Drills

• Hitting Drill: Turn-Go-Hit

  This volleyball drill will practice defensive movements and transition into hitting from defensive movements.

• Defense: 4 Corner Pit

  This is a defensive drill to help teach aggressiveness with players.

• Defense: Touch Ten!

  This drill will teach aggressiveness while playing a defensive position.

• Run the Middle!

  This drill focuses on hitting middle out of serve receive.

• Two Way Pepper

  This drill is to practice ball control over the net while keeping players focused on where the volleyball is coming from.

• Tag Team Warm up

  This is a good running warm up for teams with large numbers of players.

• Back Row Running Warmup

  This drill is good for warm up while practicing communication and ball control.

• Sideout or Lose

  This volleyball drill will emphasize the importance of first swing sideouts.

• Reverse Sideout Game

  This drill will practice running the offense out of serve receive with emphasis on termination.

• Offense vs. Blockers

  This volleyball drill will practice hitting against the block and transitioning off the net.

• Offense Kill Drill

  This drill will practice the importance of terminating the ball by a hitter (getting a kill).

• Endurance Hitting Drill

  This high energy drill focuses on blocking, attacking, and endurance!

• Vollebyball Jump Serve Up/Down

  This drill will help players learn to jump serve from the end line when serving to a target area.

• Double Block Attacking Drill

  This blocking drill teachers players how to face a double block.

• Volleyball Serving Around the World

  This drill allows players to practice serving to all six zones of the court.

• Volleyball Ball Control: Two person Four Square

  This volleyball drill increases accuracy in down balls to desired locations while also increasing communication skills between players.

• Volleyball Ball Control Elimination

  This elimination drill teaches players how to pin point exactly where they want their hit to go.

• Volleyball Back Row Attack: Ping Pong

  This ball control drill is designed to teach the pass, set, hit tempo from behind the volleyball ten foot line.

• Back Row Attacking Drill

  This fast paced drill will focus on back row attacking from behind the ten foot line.

• Volleyball Footwork Drill

  This drill will focus on all the necessary footwork to be a middle hitter and blocker.

• Serve Receive Transition to Hitting Drill

  This is a great drill for players to work on serve receive and hitting at the same time.

• Coverage Drill

  This volleyball coverage drill will teach the team how to cover their hitters.

• 12 Ball Wash Drill

  This drill teaches back row attacking and how to defend back row attacks.

• 3 Skill Pepper with Partner

  Advanced pepper game where players pass and set to themselves before down balling it to their partner.

• Volleyball 3v3 Drill - Reading the Block

  This volleyball 3v3 drill is great to teach your offense how to read and react to the defense. Players are forced to read whether the defense has blockers and must react to each scenario.

• 3 Player Down Ball with Movement

  This volleyball drill focuses on hitting a down ball to a specific area after a series of touches.

• Volleyball Ball Control with Movement

  This is a great drill to focus on ball control and movement on the court.

• Setting and Overhead Passing Warm-up

  This volleyball setting and overhead passing warm-up focuses on setting and passing with the overhead pass. This is a great setting drill that focuses on movement after the pass and looking for open areas of the court.

College Volleyball Drills

College level drills will focus on advanced volleyball techniques and skills.