Practice Serving and Serve Receive (13 minutes) Use a few players lined up to serve, or a volleyball serving machine. Have your starting rotation line up in serve receive formation and practice passing the serves to their setter in their correct location and complete an attack.

You can practice serving without a net with a ball and a wall, with a friend, or even doing visualization training alone in your room. If possible, try marking the top of the net to help find the right height to aim for. When practicing in your backyard, use a clothesline, or mark it with chalk on a wall.

Deliver and Pop Serve Drill Get players comfortable with the overhand serve toss by teaching them to “deliver” the ball at the top of their reach, then drop the ball to the floor. Next, have them add a small toss at the delivery point, then contact the ball with a “pop” from their serving hand.