Volleyball Serve Receive - Training and Drills

Serve Receive

Ideas for teaching ball control along with serve receive drills

Coaching volleyball provides a number of challenges. This is a fast-paced game played in a confined area and it requires the players to master a number of skills. Though a coach has to allocate practice time to all of these skills, one quickly learns that a team’s ability to serve receive successfully has a direct connection to the team’s probability of winning a match.

I have gathered a collection of videos that focus on serve receive passing and attacking. These drills are designed so that a coach can easily adjust the flow, the point scoring, or the focus to adapt to a specific group’s needs.

Passing Technique

Here are two videos with a focus on ball control techniques. Though these videos are not serve receive specific, they do provide some contrasts on teaching platform, movement and body position. Take a look and reflect on how you train your players to control the ball.

Purdue Serve Receive

Reducing False Movements

Passing Drills with Goals

As your team works to improve their ball control, placing pressure on the passers will be an important part of the training. These drills include a point goal as a requirement to complete the drill successfully.

5-3-5-3-5 Passing Drill

Receiving Serves from Different Angles

Serve and Receive Drill - 10 to Target

Serve Passing - Coach Controlled

MSU Volleyball Serve Receive Drill

Serve Pass & Hitting Drill with a Goal

Here are two drills that combine serve passing and attacking. The first drill is focused on attacking vs a block while the second is a 6 vs 6 drill:

Outside Hitter Vs. Block

17-21 Side out & Transition Drill