{"id":13031,"date":"2015-07-17T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13031"},"modified":"2015-07-17T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T08:00:21","slug":"coaching-log-jul-17-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/17\/coaching-log-jul-17-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Log – Jul 17, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an entry in my volleyball coaching log for 2015-16<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, I’m now less than a week away from being in Sweden for my initial visit. That means my focus is on the upcoming move – packing and otherwise preparing. I was also busy traveling to and from an academic conference in Glasgow, which kept me occupied for the better part of three solid days. I did do a couple of coaching-related things the past week, however.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in last week’s update<\/a> that I would be doing, I had a conversation with the second of our American signings – the middle, Chelsey Bettinson. As with the others, it was mainly a start at getting to know each other. She inquired as to my preferred blocking scheme. She did a lot of swing blocking at Washington State. I told her I haven’t made any decisions yet as I need to get a look at the team and players to see what I think will end up working best. It’s basically the same thing I said to Camryn when she asked me what my plan was for the offense. I don’t tend to have one system I try to play to, but instead look to try to maximize what the squad has to offer.<\/p>\n

The other thing I continued to do was player evaluations. We’re still looking to fill the third foreigner slot with an outside hitter. The Sports Director for\u00a0Svedala sent me a number of players to look at to that end.<\/p>\n

In my next entry I’ll be able to give you some initial impressions. I’ll arrive in Sweden on Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just handled a couple of things over the last seven days. The big focus at the moment is on preparing for my departure from England next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[125,268,439],"class_list":["post-13031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2015-16-svedala","tag-communication","tag-professional-volleyball","tag-volleyball-recruiting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031","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=13031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}