High school drills will focus on drills for the high school level player.
Passing: Middle or Lateral
This volleyball drill will practice decision making between lateral and inside the body passing.
Perfect Passes
This drill is to practice passing multiple repetitions, staying low and shuffling.
Hitting Drill: Turn-Go-Hit
This volleyball drill will practice defensive movements and transition into hitting from defensive movements.
Lateral Passing: 3 touch
This drill will teach players how to practice passing using lateral passing techniques.
Serve Receive with 2 Servers
This drill is to encourage passing short serves from a short position.
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.
Passing: Pass and Move!
This drill will practice moving left to right and passing.
Pass and Weave
This volleyball drill helps to practice moving left to right and passing, while staying in a low position while moving to the ball.
Run the Middle!
This drill focuses on hitting middle out of serve receive.
Serve Receive Lines
This drill will allow players to practice serving straight across the court and also help with 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.
Cross Court Pepper
This warm up drill practices ball control over the net with a partner.
Ball Control: 25 Contact Drill
This drill is to practice ball control, communication, teamwork, and warm up for hitting.
Ball Control with Back Row Attacks
This drill is to practice back row attacks to desired locations as well as increase communication skills.
Blocking: Net Decision
This drill teaches blockers when to block, hit an overpass, or back off the net and pass.
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!
Volleyball Hitting: Bucket Ball
This drill practices effective roll shots to a specified target.
Short Serve Competition
This drill focuses on serving short, inside the ten foot line.
Vollebyball Jump Serve Up/Down
This drill will help players learn to jump serve from the end line when serving to a target area.
Individual Serving Relay
This volleyball drill will practice serving accurately and getting to a base position as quickly as possible.
Down Ball Challenge
This volleyball drill will practice hitting and digging down balls.
Volleyball Partner Pass and Down Balls
This drill will practice using and controlling a down ball.
Double Block Attacking Drill
This blocking drill teachers players how to face a double block.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Middle Back Defensive Positioning and Movement
This defensive drill focuses on the middle back player's movement around the back of the court.
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.
Volleyball Corner Serving Drill
This volleyball serving drill focuses on serving accuracy to the corners of the court.
Serving with Partner
This is a great drill to teach players how to serve to a specific person or position.
Serving to 21
This is a great serving drill to teach players to serve to a specific zone.
2 Player Down Volleyball Passing Drill
This is a fun passing drill to teach players how to quickly move and pass a ball to a specified target.
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.
Volleyball - 2 Player Pepper Drill Multiple Hits
This pepper drill is great for working on ball control as it works on a variety of contact types.
"W" Passing Drill
This is a great passing drill for beginners to learn to move to the ball and pass to the setter position.
Triangle Pepper Drill - Over the Net
This volleyball pepper drill will focus on the rhythm of passing, setting, and hitting over the net to a specific target.
Volleyball Serving Drill - Ten Zones
This volleyball serving drill will put pressure on the server to concentrate and make an accurate serve.
Setting Drill - Setting After a Bad Pass
This volleyball setting drill focuses on bettering the ball after a bad pass.
Line Hitting Drill
This volleyball hitting drill focuses on hitting down the line as well as getting into a passing rhythm setting up the shot down the line.
Setting Drill - Triangle
This setting drill will focus on setting and passing overhead from different angles on the net and passing back to these targets.
Over the Net Pepper Drill
This warm-up will focus on ball control of a ball coming over the net. This volleyball drill will focus on digging, setting, and returning a controlled ball to their partner on the other side of the net.
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.
