17-18u Girls Extended Setter/Libero

What to Expect

This session refines setters’ and liberos’ ability to execute with technical consistency, high-speed efficiency, and elite decision-making under pressure while reinforcing their role as on-court leaders. Setters will focus on footwork efficiency, neutral contact point, and release mechanics, ensuring clean, repeatable execution across different tempos and set locations. Training will emphasize jump setting, setting against the block, and making quick adjustments based on hitter and defensive reads, all while directing the offense and facilitating team communication. Liberos will develop advanced platform stability, serve receive footwork, and emergency defensive recoveries, reinforcing their ability to stabilize first contact, direct defensive coverage, and initiate offensive transitions. Training will focus on absorbing high-velocity attacks, tracking hitters, and ensuring effective team communication to maintain defensive structure. The first half of the session will focus on position-specific skill refinement, reinforcing technical consistency, leadership communication, and transition efficiency. Early-season training will emphasize tempo precision, consistent defensive execution, and refining first-contact quality, while mid-season and late-season sessions will introduce faster offensive pacing, managing in-system and out-of-system plays, and high-pressure tactical adjustments. In the second half of the session, all position groups will combine for semi-controlled drills and structured 6v6 gameplay, where setters and liberos will be challenged to dictate the flow of play, command defensive structure, and execute quick adjustments under real-time game conditions. These scrimmages will reinforce tactical execution, leadership under pressure, and problem-solving in competitive match settings, ensuring setters and liberos take full control of team execution. Expect high-rep setting and defensive drills, fast-paced transition sequences, and full-speed gameplay, ensuring setters and liberos leave with enhanced leadership presence, sharper decision-making, and the ability to drive team success under pressure. This session will have 4 athletes with 2 coaches for the technical half before transitioning to the competitive component together with other positions.