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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 Down Ball Drill: Partner Pass and Down Balls

This volleyball drill develops ball control through passing and down ball hitting in small groups, making it an effective warm-up for game-like rallies.

Volleyball Defense Drill: Touch Ten

This volleyball defense drill trains players to move aggressively and touch 10 balls while reading hitters and reacting quickly to attacks.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Around the World

This volleyball serving drill challenges players to serve accurately to all six court zones, improving precision and tactical serving under pressure.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Serving Relay

This volleyball serving drill creates game-like pressure as teams compete in a relay to serve accurately and quickly to finish first.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Free Balls to Setter

This volleyball passing drill trains players to transition quickly on free balls, focusing on movement, communication, and delivering accurate passes to the setter.

Volleyball Free Ball Drill: Pass, Set, Cover, and Catch

This volleyball free ball drill trains players to transition, pass accurately, and cover hitters while running a controlled offensive sequence.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: 24 Touches

This volleyball ball control drill develops communication, teamwork, and consistency as players pass, set, and hit while working together to reach 24 consecutive touches.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: Pass, Set, Down Ball

This volleyball ball control drill trains players to pass, set, and hit controlled down balls while reinforcing communication, decision-making, and accuracy.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: Two-Person Four Square

This volleyball ball control drill uses a two-player four-square game format to improve down ball accuracy, teamwork, and communication.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: Elimination

This volleyball ball control drill challenges players to pass, set, and hit with precision, aiming attacks directly at opponents in a competitive elimination format.

Volleyball Footwork Drill for Middles

This volleyball footwork drill trains middle hitters in blocking, transitions, and approaches while improving speed, timing, and body control.

Quick Setter Transitioning Drill

This volleyball setting drill trains setters to transition quickly from base to net, improving timing, awareness, and offensive execution.

Serve Receive Transition to Hitting Drill

This volleyball drill practices serve receive and transitioning directly into hitting, reinforcing the connection between a quality pass and a successful attack.

Rapid Pass and Set Drill

This volleyball drill emphasizes quick passing to the setter and consistent outside sets, improving tempo, accuracy, and player rotation in free ball situations.

Volleyball Net Save Drill

This volleyball net save drill teaches defenders how to dig balls out of the net, improving reaction time, ball control, and recovery in tough defensive situations.

Volleyball Double Serving Game

This volleyball serving game emphasizes effort and competitiveness by rewarding teams that fight for every rally while serving in a double-serve format.

Volleyball Coverage Drill

This volleyball coverage drill trains players to cover their hitters, react to blocked attacks, and maintain rallies through proper defensive positioning.

Serving Corner Killer Drill

This volleyball serving drill improves accuracy by targeting corner zones, helping players place serves with precision and control under pressure.

12 Ball Wash Drill

This volleyball wash drill teaches back row attacking and defending while building competitive game-like intensity and teamwork.

4x2 Pepper Drill

This volleyball pepper drill develops ball control and consistency by combining multiple contact types in a partner sequence.

Volleyball Set and Switch Drill

This three-player volleyball setting drill trains the middle player to pivot and switch directions while maintaining ball control and accuracy.

Volleyball Set and Spin Drill

This volleyball setting drill builds ball control and awareness by requiring players to set, spin, and reset before passing to a partner.

Volleyball 3-Skill Pepper with Partner

This advanced pepper drill trains players to pass, set, and down ball in sequence with a partner, improving control, rhythm, and warm-up skills.

Volleyball Blocking Form Drill

This volleyball blocking drill improves footwork, timing, and communication between middle and outside blockers to close blocks effectively.

Volleyball Setters vs. Passers Game

This volleyball drill creates a fun game scenario where one team can only set and the other can only pass, improving control and teamwork under scoring pressure.

Double the Number

This ball control drill starts with partners and builds until the entire team is working together, improving passing, setting, and group communication.

Volleyball Warm-up with Wall

This volleyball warm-up drill uses a wall for players to practice basic skills, arm strength, and ball control while preparing for practice.

Volleyball Setting Game

This volleyball drill develops the overhead pass by requiring all players to set every ball, improving control, communication, and consistency.

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.