Lola Logs Into The Preseason Blog
August 12, 2012 | Women's Volleyball
Aug. 12, 2012
Hello fans of Louisville volleyball, it's Lola.
Today is day five of preseason and I want to share with you one of our days of practice. Our practice started with meeting with our coaches in the film room. We were talking and also taking notes about basics of blocking. At 9:15, we started our regular warmup with strength coach Eric Hammer.
After we warmed up, Coach Kordes took us through ball control drills. We worked on passing from Left Back to Right Back, and then pass live from serve on the box. Then we started our serving drill, and after that butterfly passing drill by groups.
When we finished with our passing drill, we went to two courts in groups of four and started live serve and pass. In the end of the practice, we were working on our blocking that we went through on our meeting with coaches before practice.
Right after practice Anne Kordes, Gwen Rucker, Hannah Kvitle, Katie George and I went to the football stadium to sign autographs and talk to our fans about our season that is coming next week. We gave them our schedule and took some pictures with them. Our fans are awesome, they were so welcoming, and we had a lot of fun with them.
Our afternoon session started with warm up with Coach Hammer and Chad. After that, we started to warming up with balls. After warming up we started digging technique drill when you have to review give and take technique and one knee drills. After that we moved on to five on six wash drills with one side emphasizing passing and the other focusing on blocking.
After this we broke down our blocking technique with individual blocking drills. We used these skills to incorporate them into a competitive game-like situations. After practice, we rushed to The Ville Grill for dinner. After the dinner, we had meeting with coaches in filming room to go through more blocking techniques. That's how we finished our fifth day of pre season.
