BY JOHN KESSEL | MARCH 30, 2015, 3:46 P.M. (ET) The glow of your child being chosen to play for a club, perhaps even the experience of having to choose between multiple clubs and not cut, has faded. In the heart of the season, coaches begin making decisions on playing time based on both what they have seen in practices and tournaments. Depending on the team size, you are likely to [...]

Good, short and organized highlight videos will catch the eye of college coaches IF they need your position in your grad year AND they see in the video that your athleticism, court movement and skill level could make their team better. When you send intro emails to college coaches, you should always have a link to your YouTube video in the body of the email. Here are [...]

Sleep is not a vice. We should all remember that. We hear stories about high-achievers who only sleep 5 hours a night, and it leads us to view sleep deprivation as a badge of honor – and maybe to feel guilty if we get a full 8 hours or, God forbid, 9. The underlying message: sleepers are slackers. In fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth. [...]

When it comes to practice, it’s not enough just to have a pulse and show up at the gym.You’re probably thinking, “Duh, Karch, I knew that.” But I say it to emphasize the point that there’s a big difference between just clocking in and clocking out, and engaging in purposeful practice. In the book “Outliers: The Story of Success,” author Malcolm Gladwell writes about factors that lead to high-level [...]

The end of the fall semester is here, and the spring semester of high school will be just as busy. With 5-8 hours of classes Monday-Friday, a few hours of homework each night, and studying for tests each week, it seems that school takes up most of your time. With volleyball, that schedule becomes even crazier. Sometimes, it can seem impossible to stay on top of it [...]