This can be a periodic replace in my function as Indoor Efficiency Director for Volleyball England. I laid out the excessive stage priorities underneath which I’m working in my preliminary put up.
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December Juniors camp
We ran a camp for youths within the 2007 and youthful age teams (some as younger as 2011). The heavy focus was expertise evaluation. There have been a variety of children we would have liked to both get one other take a look at or see for the primary time in a nationwide workforce context to evaluate in the event that they had been Pathway materials – not less than at this level.
Sadly, the camp was bookend by a pair of significant medical points. On the primary day, following their first court docket session, an athlete had a seizure. Then, on the ultimate day throughout their final session, a special athlete was hit by a ball and suffered a concussion. In between there have been a couple of minor points, however the coach (physio) was undoubtedly saved busy coping with athletes carrying pre-existing circumstances (shoulders, knees, ankles, and so forth.).
I’ll undoubtedly say that organizationally the camp might have been higher. A variety of issues we’d in any other case have had in place weren’t there just because I used to be the one administrator on-hand. I do assume, although, that typically the teaching employees supplied a constant athlete expertise.
Seniors tournaments
The Senior nationwide groups took half in two separate tournaments the primary weekend of January. One was the Novotel Cup in Luxembourg. The opposite was the 5 Nations event hosted by VE in England. This clearly meant splitting squads and training staffs.
Beginning with the latter, each the Males and Girls performed in a round-robin towards Eire, Northern Eire, and Scotland (a workforce dropped out). The lads fielded an principally skilled workforce and solely dropped a set to prime the sector. They then performed Scotland within the last and gained that convincingly as properly. The ladies fielded a youthful group that not surprisingly had a tougher go. They nonetheless managed to take second, with their solely match losses coming to Scotland within the pool and the ultimate.
Issues flipped round for Novotel. The lads’s workforce was a much less skilled one, whereas the ladies despatched their stronger squad. They had been meant to play three matches, however a workforce dropped out, so there have been solely two official ones. Each groups misplaced to the hosts, however beat the German U18s. The teaching staffs had been happy with the performances.
U18W in Romania
Within the latter a part of February we despatched a gaggle of U18 ladies to Romania for a bit of coaching and competitors. A neighborhood Romanian membership hosted them. There schedule featured a trio of matches towards membership sides, with coaching time blended in. Naturally, in addition they had some cultural experiences as properly.
The studies again had been very optimistic. The workforce didn’t win any of the matches, nevertheless it was a optimistic studying expertise by all accounts. The most recent member of our admin employees went on the journey as her first publicity to the game. She got here again with some fairly helpful takeaways primarily based on her prior expertise as an S&C coach.
Athlete Administration System (Perfbook)
Juniors camp in December supplied us with our first intensive use of the Perfbook platform we’re utilizing for athlete administration. We arrange every day schedules on there. Properly, not less than for the principle stuff like coaching and training classes. We didn’t go as far as to place in meal instances, bus departures, and issues like that, although we might have. That was the comparatively easy stuff.
The extra complicated, and arguably extra helpful, components had been the questionnaires. Every morning there was a check-in questionnaire about how the athletes had been feeling. Then, after every session, they needed to report an RPE. These two issues had been helpful for the employees to observe the place the gamers had been at by the camp.
We additionally used the questionnaires in an evaluation vogue. I created one the coaches used internally to charge gamers and enter notes on them. One other was suggestions to go to the participant after camp. Lastly, the gamers had one among their very own to do a sort of self-assessment.
I undoubtedly gained’t say every little thing went easily. I don’t assume any of the check-in questionnaires had been near 100% completion by the athletes, for instance. As a primary go at utilizing the system on this approach, nonetheless, I feel issues went fairly properly. Transferring ahead, we’ll undoubtedly need to discover a approach to implement the system’s use.
U22 Euro Qualifiers
We lastly discovered simply final week the pool assignments for our U22s for July’s Euro qualification teams. The Girls will journey to Slovakia to compete in a pool that additionally consists of Poland (probably favorites) and Isreal. The Males go to Italy for a pool which additionally options Ukraine and Denmark. The highest workforce from every pool (5 in complete), plus the two finest runners-up, advance to the finals subsequent Summer season.
Upcoming
We’ll be again in camp with the U18 and U20 teams in April, after just lately choosing the attendees. We’re taking a look at arranging the same Romania journey for the U18M as what we did for the ladies. That is a part of preparation for U18 Euro qualification occurring later within the yr. The Seniors wish to play some pleasant matches towards groups entered into this yr’s CEV Silver League to assist see the place they’re at competitively. And, in fact, the U22s shall be getting ready for Euro qualification arising this Summer season.
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