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Intermediate (Ages 10-14)

Develop consistency and confidence with middle school volleyball drills that introduce game-like scenarios and improve conditioning.

Middle school volleyball drills help players move beyond fundamentals by building consistency, confidence, and game awareness. At this stage, athletes benefit from drills that replicate real match situations, strengthen communication, and improve physical conditioning. By practicing with greater intensity and focus, players develop the skills and endurance needed to transition smoothly into competitive play.

Intermediate (Ages 10-14)

Volleyball Passing Drill: Middle or Lateral Decision-Making

This volleyball passing drill improves serve receive, ball control, and decision-making between inside-the-body and lateral passing.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Perfect Passes Repetition

This volleyball passing drill builds consistency, ball control, and defensive posture by focusing on perfect passes through high-repetition training.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Bombs Away! Short Serve Challenge

This volleyball serving drill improves short serve accuracy while challenging defenders to react quickly and anticipate ball flight.

Volleyball Hitting Drill: Turn, Go, and Hit Transition

This volleyball hitting drill practices defensive movement, diving recovery, and transitioning into an attacking approach against a live block.

Volleyball Passing Drill: 3-Touch Lateral Passing

This volleyball passing drill develops ball control and movement by training players to pass from midline and lateral positions with proper footwork.

Volleyball Serve Receive Drill with Two Servers

This volleyball drill improves serve receive by challenging players to pass short serves consistently to a target while rotating positions.

Volleyball Passing Warm-Up Drill: Passing Technique Path

This volleyball passing warm-up teaches players to stay low, move with control, and direct their platform to the target while improving footwork.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Passing Out of the Net

This volleyball passing drill teaches players to read and control balls rebounding off the net, improving anticipation, reaction, and ball control.

Volleyball Defense Drill: 4-Corner Pit

This volleyball defensive drill improves quick reaction, aggressiveness, and movement as players chase balls directed into four court corners.

Volleyball Defense Drill: Touch Ten!

This volleyball defense drill builds aggressiveness and reading skills as defenders work to touch ten attacked balls before rotating out.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Pass and Move

This volleyball passing drill trains players to move laterally, square to the target, and pass under game-like movement pressure.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Pass and Weave

This volleyball passing drill develops ball control, lateral footwork, and passing accuracy while keeping players low and balanced in movement.

Volleyball Middle Hitter Drill: Run the Middle!

This volleyball drill trains middle hitters to attack out of serve receive while improving timing, passing accuracy, and setter-hitter connection.

Volleyball Serve Receive Drill: No Easy Points!

This volleyball serve receive drill emphasizes passing accuracy, offensive execution, and earning rotations through consistent swings under blocking pressure.

Volleyball Serve Receive Drill: Serve Receive Lines

This volleyball serve receive drill builds passing consistency as players practice receiving serves straight across the court and rotating quickly.

Volleyball Pepper Drill: Two-Way Pepper

This volleyball pepper drill develops ball control, communication, and awareness by alternating straight and cross-court down ball exchanges over the net.

Volleyball Pepper Drill: Cross-Court Pepper

This volleyball pepper drill develops ball control, passing, setting, and down ball accuracy through continuous cross-court exchanges with a partner.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: 25 Contact Challenge

This volleyball ball control drill develops passing, setting, and hitting skills while emphasizing communication, teamwork, and consistency through a 25-contact challenge.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: Back Row Attacks

This volleyball drill improves ball control and communication while training players to execute purposeful back row attacks to specific court zones.

Volleyball Blocking Drill: Net Decision

This volleyball blocking drill trains players to read the ball at the net and decide whether to block, attack an overpass, or step back and pass.

Volleyball Warm-Up Drill: Tag Team Warm-Up

This volleyball warm-up drill keeps large groups active by combining passing, setting, tipping, and teamwork with a tag-in rotation system.

Volleyball Warm-Up Drill: Back Row Running Warm-Up

This volleyball warm-up drill combines passing, setting, and back row attacking with constant movement, communication, and ball control.

Volleyball Offense vs. Defense Drill: Sideout or Lose

This volleyball drill emphasizes the importance of first-swing sideouts, encouraging aggressive offense and strong teamwork against live serves.

Volleyball Competitive Drill: Reverse Sideout Game

This volleyball drill emphasizes offensive termination by rewarding points only when a team successfully wins a rally off serve receive.

Volleyball Competitive Drill: Offense vs. Blockers

This volleyball drill trains hitters to attack against a live block while blockers focus on forming doubles and making strong touches at the net.

Volleyball Offense Drill: Kill Drill

This volleyball drill emphasizes the importance of terminating rallies with a kill, training hitters to attack aggressively while defenders work to extend plays.

Volleyball Hitting Drill: Endurance Hitting

This volleyball hitting drill develops endurance, attacking against a block, and defensive passing through fast-paced, continuous rotations.

Volleyball Hitting Drill: Bucket Ball

This volleyball hitting drill trains hitters to disguise attacks and execute effective roll shots by targeting a ball cart or bucket for accuracy.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Short Serve Competition

This volleyball serving drill emphasizes accuracy and control by challenging players to serve short inside the 10-foot line through a competitive scoring game.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Jump Serve Up/Down

This volleyball serving drill trains jump serve technique, teaching players to adjust arm swing direction with “thumb up” or “thumb down” calls for targeted serving.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Individual Serving Relay

This volleyball serving drill improves accuracy and conditioning as players serve to zones, sprint to base positions, and return quickly in a relay-style competition.

Volleyball Down Ball Drill: Down Ball Challenge

This volleyball drill develops hitting and digging skills by challenging players to execute and defend down balls behind the 10-foot line.

Volleyball Partner Pass and Down Balls

This drill will practice using and controlling a down ball.

Volleyball Defense: Touch Ten

This volleyball drill will teach the defensive player to be aggressive and ready to move.

Volleyball Serving Around the World

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

Volleyball Serving Relay

This drill allows players to serve while under "game like" pressure.

Volleyball: Passing Free Balls to Setter

This volleyball drill helps players understand proper movement for free ball transition, when passing to the setter.

Free Ball: Pass, Set, Cover, and Catch

This volleyball drill teaches players how to get into a free ball offense.

Volleyball 24 Touches - Ball Control

This drill is to practice ball control as a warm up to hitting, while working on communication and teamwork between players.

Ball Control: Pass, Set, Downball

This volleyball drill teaches how to hit a down ball to a desired location as well as work on communication skills between players.

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 Footwork Drill

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

Quick Setter Transitioning Drill

This fast paced drill is to teach the setter how to quickly transition to the net.

Serve Receive Transition to Hitting Drill

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

Rapid Pass - Set Drill

This drill focuses on passing free balls to the setter, allowing the setter to make a good outside set to the hitter.

Net Save Drill

This drill is to teach the defender how to dig the ball out of the net on the return.

Volleyball Double Serving Game

This volleyball drill teaches the importance of trying your best for every point and trying to get every ball!

Coverage Drill

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

Serving Corner Killer Drill

This drill focuses on serving to the corners of the opposing court.

12 Ball Wash Drill

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

4 x 2 Pepper Drill

This drill will help practice ball control using different types of contacts.

Set and Switch

This is a three person setting drill where the middle players switches directions.

Set and Spin

Simple ball control drill that focuses on setting technique.

3 Skill Pepper with Partner

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

Blocking Form Drill

This drill works on blocking, footwork, and making sure the middle blocker closes the block with the right or left front player.

Setters vs. Passers Game

This is a game situation drill which allows setting only for one team and passing only for the other team.

Double the Number

This is a ball control drill that starts in partners and eventually ends with the whole team passing/setting together.

Warm-up with Wall

A warm-up time for each player to warm up arms and shoulders before practice begins and at the same time be working on basic skills and ball control.

Setting Game

This simple drill helps ALL players on a team develop the overhead pass or set.

Middle Back Defensive Positioning and Movement

This defensive drill focuses on the middle back player's movement around the back of the court.

Partner Setting and Overhead Passing Drill

This partner setting and overhead passing drill works on perfecting the overhead pass and setting in partners. In this drill, one player is working on their setting skills while the other player is only responsible for throwing the ball to the working player.