That is the primary of what I anticipate to be a sequence of journal entries. It is going to cowl my work as Indoor Efficiency Director (IPD) beneath my broader obligations as Strategic Supervisor for Expertise for Volleyball England. My function as IPD is to supervise and supply course for England’s indoor nationwide groups – from the Seniors down by means of the age group groups. The latter have primarily been within the U17 and U19 classes, however we’re now pondering of them extra by way of U18 and U20 to line up with CEV age group competitions. We’re additionally including U22s, and possibly down the highway we’ll add U16s as nicely.
Since I don’t plan on teaching any of the England groups myself, these posts might be totally different from the teaching journals I did for 2013-14 Exeter, 2014-15 Exeter, 2015-16 Svedala, 2016-17 MSU, 2017-18 MSU, the 2020-21 Medaille Males, and the 2021-22 Medaille Girls and Males. It is going to most likely be extra like what I did in my Technical Director function at Charleston Academy. By that I imply it’ll have a tendency towards broader themes and priorities – together with coach supervision and growth. Not a lot the day-to-day coaching and match stage stuff.
So you possibly can consider this as a program director’s journal. You’ll be capable to observe together with the work I’m doing to develop and develop the England nationwide groups. That covers three key areas.
Coach Improvement
Finally, coaches are on the heart of a number of what must occur for England to be extra aggressive within the worldwide area. Clearly, we want high quality coaches main our nationwide groups. Beneath that, nonetheless, is an entire feeder system. That system is what in the end will decide our success. The overwhelming majority of participant growth occurs on the membership/faculty stage. We are able to solely refine it within the nationwide staff gymnasium. So we want a broad base of high quality coaches all through England to feed our pipeline. And there’s extra to it than what they do on-court.
Athlete Help
There’s a number of academic and different help that goes into serving to gamers maximize their potential. Diet, energy & conditioning, and psychological abilities are issues that instantly come to thoughts on this space. For some that features stuff like assist with recruitment to high schools within the US. And since a number of what we do is athlete-funded, discovering methods to assist gamers and their households in that regard is one other.
Improved Aggressive Alternatives
This class covers two areas. One is worldwide competitors. We wish to discover methods for our groups to play in opposition to different nationwide groups extra regularly. The opposite is home competitors. England has a well-established grownup league construction. We at Volleyball England are engaged on progressively making our high division – the Tremendous League extra skilled – and customarily bettering the standard all through, however that’s primarily incremental relatively than wholesale change. The juniors competitors are extra in an evolutionary state. They’ve gone from a reasonably restricted factor to a way more inclusive construction lately, and proceed to be evaluated for enhancements shifting ahead.
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