{"id":1235,"date":"2015-04-14T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2015-04-14T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:00:27","slug":"coaching-volleyball-at-a-higher-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/14\/coaching-volleyball-at-a-higher-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching volleyball at a higher level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For those volleyball coaches with an ambition to have a career<\/a> in the sport there almost inevitably comes the point where they ask the question, “How do I make the jump to a higher level?” Their are two primary ways to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success at your current level<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Lots of success at your current level<\/a> is one way to put yourself in a position to make the jump. This needs to be the type of success you can document and highlight – that will impress someone. That’s things like win and championship counts, or turning a losing team around. It could be reaching conference tournaments or having lots of players earn individual honors. These sort of things will let prospective employers at the next level up know that you are more than competent. They will see that you know how to be successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success by itself, however, is not enough. A different level means different challenges. It’s not just about working with higher caliber athletes. It’s also about greater demands across the board. Let’s consider the jump from high school or Juniors volleyball to college coaching, for example. Recruiting will likely be the biggest new challenge. You’ll need to show evidence that you can bring in the type of student-athletes needed to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There may also be other administrative and organizational demands<\/a> as well. For example, community outreach, academic monitoring, scheduling, video exchange, scouting and statistical analysis, and running camps. Look at job descriptions for the level of play you’re aspiring to. There you will get some idea of the sort of work you’ll be required to perform. They will also prepare you to explain how you are equipped to do so. A place like Indeed<\/a> is a good source for different types of coaching job descriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the above goes not only for head coaches, but for assistants as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apprentice at the level you’re targeting<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

The other way to elevate your coaching level is to find a place where you can break in at the bottom with an eye toward working your way up over time. This could involve being a volunteer coach for a program, or otherwise taking on a position lower than the sort you’re targeting. For example, you might be a head coach at a lower level, but need to assist at the next one. Or you could be a 1st Assistant at the lower level and have to take a 2nd Assistant position to make the jump up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point of apprenticing is to get your foot in the door and gain important experience working at that level. Let’s consider NCAA Division I volleyball. It is much easier for an Athletic Director or Head Coach to hire someone with Division I coaching on their resume than someone from Division II or lower. That’s because they know the candidate has knowledge and experience relevant to the position. They know the rules and how things work. Bringing in someone from a lower level – except in a relatively junior role, like 2nd assistant – means taking more risk. This is why it’s often easier for a Division I assistant coach to get a head coaching job at that level than an experienced, successful Division II head coach – or someone from overseas as I talked about in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with any other type of apprenticeship, though, you want a suitable program, not just any old one. The right program will be one where you can gain the requisite experience and which will put you in a position to move up the ladder. Unfortunately, that often means a program which is likely to have some level of success that you’ll be able to put on your resume. In other words, latching on with a poorly supported team in a weak league probably isn’t going to do much for your career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two paths to advancing to a higher volleyball coaching level – be demonstrably successful at your current level or apprentice at the higher one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[381,387],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching-careers","tag-volleyball-coaching-career","tag-volleyball-coaching-job"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}