Rob Browning May 19 What Is A Good Serving Ace:Error Ratio? We want our servers to be effective, but how do we measure effectiveness? This the 2nd in a series of blogs about serving and how to...
Dave Neeley Apr 20 How Many Serves Should A Volleyball Team Miss? Like many other volleyball fans, players, and coaches, I spent a majority of this past weekend watching the NCAA women's volleyball...
Robert Poole Apr 6 5-1 Offensive System 5-1 Offensive System One of the most common offensive systems used by teams Worldwide is the 5-1 System. Part of the reason for this is...
Dave Neeley Apr 1 How High Should a Volleyball Serve Go? I attended the BYU women's volleyball yesterday and saw the Cougars, led by GMS advisory staff member Heather Olmstead, win their seventh...
Dave Neeley Mar 30 Get Your Setters Going in Serve-Recieve Setter entry footwork from each serve-receive formation is an important contributor to a setter's potential success. We want her to get...
Robert Poole Mar 26 6-2 Offensive System With 2 Substitutions One of the most common offensive systems used in NCAA Women’s Volleyball and high school girl's volleyball is the 6-2 system with 2...
Robert Poole Mar 19 6-2 Offensive System With No Substitutions Choosing an offense system Choosing the right offensive system to run can be crucial to a team’s success. Sometimes as coaches we may...
Robert Poole Mar 18 6-2 Offensive System with 1 Sub One of the exciting attributes of Volleyball is the way it allows for creativity within the game. If every team played volleyball exactly...
Dave Neeley Mar 15 Comparing GMS Mock Drafts to Athletes Unlimited Volleyball Drafts At every Gold Medal Squared coaching clinic, and during our GMS+ video course about offensive systems, we discuss the positions on a...
Robert Poole Mar 3 4-2 Offensive System In Volleyball, coaches often look to use as many players as possible as offensive threats. Having more attackers usually results in an...
Dave Neeley Mar 1 Importance of Good Transition Footwork Why is Transition Offense so Important? In women's volleyball, more than 50% of our offensive opportunities come in transition situations...
jtrinsey Nov 17, 2020 Small Group Practices The era of Covid has proved a challenging time for many people, including volleyball coaches. Many things are different about volleyball...
jtrinsey Nov 2, 2020 What Is Knockout % And Why Is It Awesome? We know serving is incredibly important. Winning the "Serve-Pass Battle" often decides who wins the match. Yet, serving is still an...
Gold Medal Squared Aug 21, 2020 How One School's Team Thrived After Loss of Their Gym One of our GMS teams recently wrote to us to share their experience after the loss of their practice facility. We love doing the kind of...
jtrinsey Jul 9, 2020 Try This At Tryouts When I was a high school athlete, tryouts used to make me a bit nervous. How will I play? Who else will show up? Will the coaches like...
Gold Medal Squared Jun 11, 2020 GMS Career in Coaching Program At what is an important time in our country’s history, we’ve taken the time to listen and learn how we as a company can take meaningful...
Gold Medal Squared Jun 10, 2020 GMS Response on Covid-19 COVID-19 UPDATES Updated June 29th, 2020 First, we hope that you and your loved ones are hanging in there during this challenging time. ...
Gold Medal Squared Mar 10, 2020 Volleyball Attack Names Types of Volleyball Sets and Attacks Each volleyball attack type has its own name. Coaches, setters, and hitters need to know each of...
Gold Medal Squared Mar 9, 2020 Defensive Lessons From The NCAA Tournament: Part 2 This post is Part 2 of a multiple-part series on defense. If you haven’t already done so, check out Part One of Defensive Lessons From...
Gold Medal Squared Feb 19, 2020 Defensive Lessons From The NCAA Tournament: Part 1 We hope you enjoyed our previous article series: Rotations 201. In that series, we took a deep dive into the specific adjustments that...
