{"id":17745,"date":"2017-12-08T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=17745"},"modified":"2017-12-08T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T14:00:09","slug":"who-should-be-leader-on-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/08\/who-should-be-leader-on-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Who should be leader on the court?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leadership is a major consideration for any team. To that end, a coach presented the following scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If my best player is the Alpha, asserting herself, telling people where to go etc. But she isn’t the setter, how do you feel about that. I.e. does the player’s position matter?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what I personally believe. Feel free to argue otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The setter should be a<\/em> leader on the court, but does not need to be the<\/em> leader. For sure, the setter runs the offense. In that role it is important that they be a leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, the libero is the first ball specialist As such, they have leadership responsibility in the areas of defense and serve reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there’s the middle blocker. They are generally in charge of the blocking side of things – especially when their team is serving. As such, they are leaders in their own way also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can see, I expect leadership to be shared around. It comes from multiple sources and in different ways. Rarely will you have a situation where only one player is the leader, even if they are captain<\/a>. They may be the vocal<\/em> leader, and as such the most overt. That isn’t the only form of leadership, however. Nor is it necessarily the most important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the answer the question posed, I have no problem with a non-setter being the “alpha”. That is, of course, so long as they are not in conflict with the other leaders and lead in an appropriate fashion (different discussion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I should note that the above has little to do with who you select for the official team captain. That’s a different type of responsibility. It’s about dealing with the referee, not about dealing with their teammates – though there can certainly be overlap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it best that your setter be the leader on the court? Or can the leader be someone in a different position. That is a question posed by a coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[191,316],"class_list":["post-17745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-leadership","tag-team-captain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745","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=17745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}