Serve Receive Game with Middle Attacker Training

Purpose: To provide repetitions for your serve receivers and setters. To force your setter to set the middle attack. To force your middle attackers to make themselves available for a set.

Setup: 3 serve receivers, 1 setter, 1 middle attacker, 2 servers, basket of balls.

1. You will start the drill with a player serving from one side of the court. The serve receivers are on the other side receiving.

2. The setter can start her pattern from various places on the court. You need to train her from each of her six rotations.

3. The middle attacker will also start from the three different positions when she is in front row. If she is a primary passer then you will want her to pass and swing to hit whatever you instruct for her to hit.

4. The passers concentrate on passing perfect balls, moving as a unit and communicating. They get a point for every perfect pass. A point is taken away from the passers for getting aced while the servers get a point. A missed serve is neutral.

5. You want to encourage the servers to serve tough (some coaches may wish to start the drill with 75% serving to ensure success then progress to more difficult serving).

6. The passers are working on getting 15 points before the servers get 5. The middle attackers will actually attack the ball.

7. There are three defenders and a blocker on the other side. The middles are trying to put away 6 balls before the defenders can success fully dig or block 10 balls. You may adjust the numbers to fit your program.

8. If the passer/server game finishes before the middle/defender game does, or vice versa, the server/passers will continue to serve and pass until the other group completes their game.

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