Whether you’re a P.E. teacher, volleyball coach, or a parent looking for ways to help players grow, having some solid volleyball drills is essential. These activities can help students improve their overall performance and give specific skills, such as setting, passing, and serving, a boost. This list of drills will not only help with training and conditioning, it will also be a lot of fun!
Volleyball Drills for Elementary School
1. Teach Mini Volleyball for 6-to-9-Year-Olds
This modified, condensed version of volleyball is perfect for younger kids.
2. Volleyball Drills for Ages 10 to 12
These drills are perfect for fostering communication and coordination among upper elementary students.
3. Elementary Volleyball: Moving
This helps kids understand how to move quickly and effectively in various directions in a limited space while catching and throwing a ball under the net.
4. Elementary Volleyball: Handling the Ball
This video highlights the motor, problem-solving, and behavioral skills needed for handling the ball and includes a variety of drills and games to practice with kids.
5. Elementary Volleyball: Presentation
This video offers games and activities to improve presentation skills and includes an assessment.
6. Beginner Volleyball Passing
This volleyball drill helps beginners master their stance when receiving and passing the ball.
Volleyball Drills for Middle School and High School
7. Improve the Passing of Middle School Volleyball Players
This video showcases the “Butterfly,” which encourages players to quickly learn how to properly dig a ball.
8. Dynamic Practice Design and Drills
Use your practice time as efficiently as possible with this video that shows you how to integrate a complete arsenal of fast-paced drills into any high school practice plan.
9. “Hit the Deck” Volleyball Drill
This drill demonstrates how to add a level of pressure to practice so players are better equipped on game day.
10. Competitive Volleyball Drills for Offense and Defense
These drills will improve your players’ offensive efficiency and defensive competitiveness.
Volleyball Drills for Beginners
11. Volleyball Drills for Beginners
These drills are very good for improving reaction speed and readiness.
12. How To Overhand-Serve for Beginners
Overhand serving is a skill that takes time to learn, but this tutorial breaks it down into easy steps.
13. Best Volleyball Spiking Drills for Beginners
These step-by-step exercises will help beginners learn how to spike a volleyball or how to spike harder with much more ball control.
14. 3 Basic Skills in Volleyball
This helpful video covers serving, passing, and setting to help new volleyball players get started.
15. Shuffling Drill
This video explains how to use a shuffling drill to work on proper volleyball footwork.
Volleyball Warm-Up Drills
16. Volleyball: Warm-Ups & Passing Drills
This video provides tips for shuffling, passing form, stationary drills, calming the ball, and more.
17. Hit the Antenna
With this drill, players get the opportunity to work on a variety of volleyball skills with the end goal being to hit the antenna at the end of every “hole.”
18. High-Intensity Warm-Up Drills
Elevate your normal warm-up routine with these drills that focus on being goal-oriented and competitive while players learn how to compete and prepare themselves for game situations.
19. Volleyball Burn Drill
This might be one of the best volleyball warm-ups for defensive movement, eye work, and volleyball IQ.
Volleyball Setting Drills
20. How To Set: Setting Skills Made Simple
This comprehensive video covers Burger Hands, Missile Launcher Lock-On, Train Track Setting, and more!
21. Best Setter Volleyball Trainings
22. Setting Drills
23. How To Become a Better Volleyball Setter ft. Team USA’s Rachael Adams
Olympian volleyball player for Team USA Rachael Adams will show you the correct hand positioning, some drills to improve your setting, and common mistakes to avoid.
Volleyball Passing Drills
24. Ultimate Guide to Overhead Passing
This longer, in-depth video offers more than 20 tips and exercises to master your passing.
25. Partner Drills
This video covers partner passing, knee passing, pass and sprint, side-to-side passing, and under-the-net shuffle passing.
26. Passing Fundamental Techniques & Drills
These drills cover fundamental passing technique and footwork and focus on medium posture stance, one-motion platform, and shuffle footwork.
27. How To Pass a Volleyball
Learn the fundamentals of passing a volleyball with details about an effective ready position, platform, and passing motion.
28. Passing Drills for a Team Practice
The volleyball drills in this video include practice passing from “different parts of the court and specific tips on what to do when on the volleyball court’s left, middle, or right side.”
Volleyball Serving Drills
29. How To Serve a Volleyball | Overhand Float Tutorial
This video offers step-by-step instructions for mastering an overhand serve with the float serve technique.
30. Serving Progression Drill
This drill walks us through a serving progression that helps to break down each step of serving and teaches athletes to toss the ball in the right spot.
31. Overhand-Serve a Volleyball Over the Net
There are several parts of the serve that are fundamental, and these drills will help you improve an overhand serve quickly!
32. Skill Development Drills: Serving
This video takes a comprehensive look at serving and how you can train your team to serve more efficiently and aggressively.
Volleyball Hitting Drills
33. Discover a Hitting Drill From John Dunning
In this video, watch a hitting drill that will help setters get the ball to hitters even if the initial pass isn’t perfect.
34. 3-1 to 3 Hitting Drill
This drill puts emphasis on minimizing errors and working together as one cohesive team on offense.
35. The L Hitting Drill
This video highlights the techniques needed when hitting three different sets during this L drill.
36. How To Spike: Perfecting Your Timing
Learn the four-step approach to spiking with this informative video.
Volleyball Conditioning Drills
37. How Can a Volleyball Player Jump Higher and Quicker?
In this video, the focus is on developing reactive strength and why it’s essential for getting off the ground faster.
38. The 13 Best Ball-Control Drills
In this video, review exercises that are good for speed, agility, and coordination to improve the ball control of volleyball players.
39. Volleyball Agility and Ball Control Drills
This video shares volleyball exercises that can be used to improve readiness, speed, agility, and ball control.
40. Anaerobic Conditioning for Volleyball Players
With an emphasis on anaerobic conditioning, this video covers 10 effective conditioning drills for middle school and high school volleyball players.
41. Ultimate Weekly Volleyball Training Plan | Train Like a PRO
Learn more about how professional volleyball players train, including guidance on the amount and types of training you can have in a week.