Volleyball tryouts...need a good checklist for evaluators/judging?

Question

I am coordinating volleyball tryouts at our school and am looking for a simple way for our evaluators to be able to effectively rate the girls. Possibly some type of weighted activity? I will have approx 70 kids trying out (5/6th graders) ..HELP!

Answer 1

I agree with Gordon on this one, but there's one extra thing I like to do with tryouts. I don't give a lot of instruction on the technical side of skills but after they are doing it for a minute or two, I'll instruct them on how to improve what they're currently doing. Then I'll continue to evalute them on that skill, just to test the player's "coachability" factor.

At this level it's all about learning the skills, and the kids that have a high coachability factor are more likely to learn a lot in a year.

Good luck with your season!

forgot to add that you should make sure your ratings scale has definitions. I'd use a 1-5 scale....take passing for example....1 is no movement, no technique, 2 is slight movement, slight technique, 3 is good movement, slight/good technique, 4 is very good movement, good technique, 5 is great movement, very good technique.

For this example, I've tailored it to the 5/6th grade level. It's unlikely you'll come across anyone with great technique. Giving the ratings clear definitions ensures that anyone that reads those ratings has the same understanding of the childs skill as the person that did the evaluating.

Answer 2

The last time I evaluated tryouts, we used a simple 1 to 5 scale for all the skills we were testing.  Serving, passing, setting, spiking, blocking, defense, and attitude.  And we did weight something heavier.  We did the attitude to 10 points giving us a total of 40 points maximum.  That was when the entire group evaluated every skill.  We also did a yes/no category to vote if we wanted that player on the club.  If the numbers were close, we counted the yes/no votes as a tiebreaker.  

I also worked for a club where we were each assigned a court with a certain skill.  I was assigned the passing court.  I used a chart with just passing numbers.  I used a 1 to 10 chart.

Answer 3

This can be easy or difficult it depends on how you plan to take action...firstly, 70 is a very big number if you could have two seprate try outs it would be great and alot easier on the judges. But at my school they spilt us into groups (1 group for each judge) Each judge just needs to be given one thing to look at say group one has 10 girls and this judge is going to look at serving...there you go one thing already that must be judged

The six basics are

Serving

Bumping

Setting

Spiking

Communication

Hitting

Sportsmanship

So divy the girls up and have mini games like try to get 100 bumps in a group of ten for bumping and communicating

Also make sure each girl has a number or an easy way of identifying the players without having to ask..once a judge asked me my number and I froze up because I was so nervous.

Have the judges rateon a basis of 10 1 being the lowest 10 being great!

Explain to the girls before having them try out that not everyone will make the team and that next year they should try out again. Anyway hope I helped remember the mini games are key! <3 Che che