I'm a J.V. setter & my coach wants me to take over my team, but I'm not sure how to go about it?

Question

I'm a J.V. setter & my coach wants me to take over my team, but I'm not sure how to go about it?

Answer 1

The setter is like a football quarterback.  You have to be the leader of your team.  You call the plays & tell your hitters what they are going to hit.

Answer 2

I believe that the setter is the key to a sucsessful offense. A setter needs to be in charge of the squad on the court. Here is some examples of what I mean.

1. On the court it's a setter's job to run the offesne. By this I mean keep everyone in the offensive portion of the game. This is accomplished by spreading the ball out to all of your teammates.  You do not need to set everyone equally, but you cannot forget any one either.

2. A setter should be the floor captain. Which means they must understand the refs calls,  and if needed take control of the team when they disagree with the referee. ( the referee is never wrong and will almost never change his call) This is accomplished by taking your team into a mini huddle and explaining what the ref called, or saw happening. Then reminding your teammates that it was only one point and you need to get it back by winning the next point.

3. You need to control the emotional waves that your team will go through. Sometimes this means pumping the team up when they appear flat, or bringing them back to earth when they lose their focus. The easiest way to do this is to try to play each point like it is for the whole game. Never linger on past plays, and look forward to what your going to do next.  Emotions are the root to 90% of losses in sports. If you control your teams emotions then you will have more sucsess.

Here's some big don'ts:  taking over the team doesn't mean start caoching the team. you have a coach, and you will make mistakes as well, so let the coach fix those situations.

. Don't yell at your teammates, or let them see you depressed. A team leader is looked up to in various ways, if you are a team leader you need to know 1 of the 20 teammates is always looking at you, chin up, no matter who makes the mistake, their's always the next point.

Never critisize your teammates. You can offer contructive critism but do not just be negetive with them. Helping people begins with caring comments. So think before you speak to them.

Anyway good luck with the team.

You'll remember this for life, so make sure to have fun with it..

Answer 3

Hey I know where your coming I'm a J.V. setter for my team also your coach could mean many differnt things by taking over your team he/she could be meaning showing them how to play if that's what they mean then I suggest you encourage them when they serve and get it over the net encourage them by saying good job keep it up or when they don't tell them to keep tying for my team when we don't make the play we say AAAHHHH team  and clap it encourages us to keep trying and if she means like helping out as sort of an asstant coach then you should still encourage them in the court and off when your playing and practicing I think if you just play your hardest and kepp encouragung your team mates you'll do exactly what your coach wants of you

Answer 4

JV Setter,

I don't think your coaching is asking you to be the COACH, but what he is looking for you to do is become the LEADER of the team.  It sounds like the entire volleyball package YOU have is what he wants his OTHER players to have.  

So how do you go about it?  Here's a few tips:

1. Be Yourself!  (No drastic changes on who you are and how you play!  Your coach picked you for who you are and your court presence)

2. Lead by example! (Ethics both on the court and off)

3. Motivate  (Not only yourself, but keep others motivated!)

4. Gracious Winner, Gracious Loser  (Winning is good, but more is learned in defeat)

Be the voice of your team to your coach and the coaches voice to the team.  Congratulate those that do well and elevate those that give effort.  

Most of all, pat yourself on the back for being selected to take the lead!  Having those skills will definitely help you in corporate America some day!

Best of luck!