Volleyball help!! How can I help this girl . . .?

Question

My team is losing our best player and I'm trying to make up for losing her. Right now I think my best shot is to get this one player better . . .

This other girl is 5'5 and the tallest girl on our team; she'll only be a sophomore next year, though. She's good at sports in general and has been playing volleyball for a while. Not the longest possible time, because she's seems more into basketball . . . her mom's a basketball coach. She has a pretty good serve and is becoming a decent blocker, and can hit SUPER hard - all when she's in a good mood.

I need advice for ways to fix these problems:

a) She's kind of a snob, because she's really good at sports. She's got ace mentality, but she's not our ace yet . . .

b) She can only hit balls set in a specific area, otherwise she can't even put it over the net. She can't tip, and do general netplay.

c) She has SERIOUS mood swings . . . she goes up and down, and her moods are infectious both ways.

Please help me! Any advice will help!

Answer 1

ya dont treat her different because if she's a snob, has mood swings and is inconsistent....you have to work as a team player in volleyball and she really doesnt seem like a team player

Answer 2

Don't cater to her or treat her any differently than anyone else.  Some people act like that because people put up with it.  Attitude problems can usually be run out of a person and in a short time once they know you mean buissness.  If not than a bad attitude will affect the whole team and you would be better of without her.  As for the hitting balls to a specific spot I struggle with that too with my serving and I had one of my friends go to the court with me and move to different spots and I tried to serve to him and it helped bc I didn't have to chase balls and I had him watch my form to make sure I didn't change my form to change the spot I was hitting to.