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Actually if they are KC their region would be Heart of America. The website is www.hoavb.org. If I remember correctly IMPACT was more the fundamental does and don'ts of coaching. Things like how to treat players and how not to treat players, appropriate and inappropriate behavior, things like that. CAP I actually gets more into the actual coaching aspect of it. Things like fundamental skills, how to teach skills, drills, strategy, player & team development are more the focus of the CAP I. It dives into the current school of thought in regard to coaching. IMPACT is more stagnant in it's course material. Really, anyone can benefit from the CAP clinics, it is not just directed at H.S. and advanced coaches. Everyone should be able to take quite a bit away and apply in real-life type situations. Nearly all governing bodies require some type of basic coaching class/clinic. IMPACT is required of anyone who is coaching in USAV. There are plenty of IMPACT clinics in the KC area. Check the website above. There probably will not be any offered until later in the fall, probably after the fall H.S. and college season is over. The IMPACT clinic will cost you about $25.00 to attend; that includes being certified and a textbook you get to keep. CAP is considerably more expensive and will require you to travel to wherever it is at. There is an at home CAP I certification offered where you can do most of it from your home but you still have to attend several hours of training wherever the clinic is held, but the full CAP clinic takes an entire weekend.

What part of the country are you in? You could start by going to http://www.usavolleyball.org then move across the menu to the Juniors' tab at the top of the page. Move down to volleyball indoor and then click on How to Get Involved or here is the link http://www.usavolleyball.org/WannaPlay. Follow the instructions. See if there is a Boys' Juniors program in your area. You may have to travel some. Where I live boys have to travel about 2 hours to participate in USAV Juniors' program. If you can't find a Juniors' Program, check into the adult teams that may be near you. Usually, there are teams looking for players and like to help bring new people into the game and help them. It is never too late to get started, but you might want to find a smaller college to play at for a year or two and then transfer to a D-I school. There are Junior Colleges, D-II, D-III and NAIA schools that all have great programs across the country. Hope this helps some.

Had this problem with older girls last year. I don't know how their parents are but talk to them. Sometimes and I mean sometimes the parents can be a big help by talking to their kids. If they choose not to get involved then you have done your job and made them aware of the situation so when you put their little bad attitudes on the bench then the parent can't come back to you and say "well, we didn't know anything about it." Since you may not have the luxury of benching players you could tell them they will not be playing a match at all. Tell them you will forfeit the match. Put them in circle and put them on the spot about the attitudes. Partner up the girls that don't get along and make them perform some type of teamwork skills together and compete against the other teams. In my case, the parents helped put a stop to a lot of the crap by talking to their daughters. I would suggest that as a first step. Talk to the parents as a group and then individually with the parents of the bad attitude kids.

In my opinion you don't teach them to use their kneepads. You teach them to move their feet and/or to dive properly. I am not sure what age you are coaching and depending on how fast the ball is moving, they should rarely have to use their kneepads. If they get in the habit of falling to their knees or sliding on their knees they will probably never break it. I don't know how many players I have seen using their knee pads to slide across the floor. While it may look like they are putting forth the effort they are actually being kinda lazy and not moving their feet to get to the ball. Watching men play who know how to dive; they dive with their full body and take the impact with their upper body. Women, generally dive and use their hip and hip/backside. In my opinion this is favorable to teaching them to drop to their knees, either way this is a last ditch effort to make a play on a ball. Use run throughs to make them hustle after the ball. Have them start in the back corner of the court, pop the ball w/your hand and then toss in the middle or to the opposite side of the court to make them run it down and pass it back to the target. Teach them to get to the ball quick and get low or if they don't have time to get there and get low, teach them to stretch and lay out for the ball. The drill Juniper1299 posted is an excellent drill, it makes the girls work and hustle. It provides a consequence when they don't, just like there is always a consequence in a game situation when they stand and let a ball drop. Take this for what it's worth, just what I have observed.

Check half.com. You can pick up used videos for far less than new. Watch the dates on them as some can be rather old and somewhat outdated. Again though, you kinda run into the problem of somewhat vague discriptions. But, if you find a video do a search on the web for that specific title to see if you can find more out about it.

In girl's and women's volleyball there is a lot of cheering and different cheers. A lot of teams have cheers for things performed correctly, kill, block, ace, etc... But many teams also have cheers when there is a mistake made. These are usually quick, loose huddles with some type of pick-me-up cheer. This happens from little girls all the way up through women's adult and college teams. You might try this, it helps the player who made the mistake forget about it and helps re-focus the team and builds a team atmosphere. Good Luck.