First off day of Preseason!

The team has been working extremely hard, we have had 7 intense sessions of training so far, so they are enjoying their well-deserved day off today.  So far in practice we have covered all of our basic key words for every skill.  Our key words are short phrases we can tell the girls to fix something in their technique.  This allows us to give quick feedback to them.  For example, when we are passing our words our posture, square, block, step, hold.  Our players know what each of these words mean and when we give them a word, they know how to fix their technique to gain better product.

We have also covered all of our offensive sets, serving zones,  out-of-system attacking, our neutral blocking system and our purple and red defense.   It has been alot of information for our newcomers and a great review for our returners.  Overall, the team is doing great.  Yesterday we finished with 2 great sessions during the day, with the teams going after it.  It is really fun to watch 6 v 6!

Today was a short lift, followed by a swim workout and now to mental training.  Our mental training today covers dealing with perfectionism, how it affects each player, and how that affects the team and getting to our goal of winning the SEC West.

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