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2013 By Ella French
Volleyball coach, Trey Goede, shares his secrets in coaching 6th grade girls.
Learn how coaches teach their team to spike the ball in an interview with a 6th grade volleyball coach. Find out Team USA’s placing in the 2012 Olympics along with nine other countries.
Volleyball Magazine 2013 Ella French
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Table of Contents Volleyball Merchandise!
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Top Ten List! !
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Volleyball Interview with Trey Goede!
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Fiction Story! !
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The Top Ten Women’s Volleyball Teams This top ten list shows the best women’s volleyball teams at the summer Olympics in 2012. This list shows a country’s rank, country name, number of points, and a small amount of background information about each team.
Country
Points
United States
312.50
Brazil
292.50
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Japan
246.00
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Italy
222.50
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China
217.00
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Background Information The current head coach for the United States National Women’s Volleyball team is Hugh McCutcheon. Some of the players are Danielle Scott-Arruda, Megan Hodge, Lindsey Berg, and Jordan Larson. Jose Roberto Guimaraes is the head coach for the Brazil National Women’s Volleyball Team. Fabiana Claudino is one player from the team. She has won the award for best spiker in the 2006 FIVB World Grand Prix in Reggio Calabria, Italy. The current head coach of the Japan National Women’s Team is Masayoshi Manabe. His team was qualified for the 2004 Summer olympics, and took fifth place in the overall rankings. The Italy National Women’s Volleyball Team has a Gold Medal at the 2002 FIVB Women’s World Championship, their team was the first to break the winning streak of Russia, Cuba, China, and Japan. The China team is one of the leading teams in women’s international volleyball. They have won the Olympic title twice in 1984 and 2004.
The Russian National Women’s Volleyball Team is managed by the Russian Volleyball Federation. The team plays in international competitions.
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Russia
135.00
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Turkey
134.00
Turkey’s National Women’s Volleyball team is one of the more successful national volleyball teams. They have been called “Filenin Sultanlan,” meaning Sultans of the net.
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Dominican Republic
122.00
The Dominican Republic Women’s National Volleyball team had their biggest win in 2003. The team surprisingly won the 2003 Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic.
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Serbia
120.75
The Olympic Committee of Serbia proclaimed the Serbia Women’s National Volleyball team the best female volleyball team for the years 2006 to 2011.
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Germany
120.50
The Germany Women’s National Volleyball Team is the German’s national female volleyball team. The head coach is Giovanni Guidetti.
On the left is a photo of the London Olympics on August 7th. The Dominican Republic’s Victoria Vargas Valdez #1 is spiking the ball, as Jordan Larson #10 and Christa Hormotto #13 of the United States, defend.
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Interview with Trey Goede By Ella French Trey Goede coaches for The Wilson School Sixth Grade Girls’ Volleyball Team and is a former college volleyball player. Although he did not continue to play volleyball professionally, Trey still loves the sport and practices with his daughter, Bergen. Trey lives in St. Louis, but is doing work for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia. He will be in Saudi Arabia for a year, and then will be back in St. Louis. I interviewed Trey Goede to learn more about his coaching: Ella: Describe your strengths & weaknesses as a volleyball player and coach. Coach Goede: As a player, I was not always the best “setter”, I was usually most effective as a “hitter” where I could spike the ball. I was also good at serving. As a coach, I have played the game a lot, so I have a lot of experience to share. The challenge as a coach to 12-year old girls is explaining things in a way that made sense and keeping their attention and focus! Ella: Tell me about some of your recent goals and what you did to achieve them? Coach Goede: My most recent goal for the The Sixth Grade Wilson Team was for the team to learn more fundamentals, and most importantly, I wanted them to have fun. Ella: Did you ever wish you had continued playing volleyball professionally? Coach Goede: I would have loved to play professionally, but unfortunately I was not a good enough player to play after college. I needed to get a real job!
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Ella: Who is your role model? Coach Goede: My volleyball role model was Karch Kiraly, a professional court and beach volleyball player. I watched him play in the Olympics often, and I actually got to play with his two man beach partner Sinjin Smith one time in California which was very cool! Karch Kiraly diving for the ball in the semifinals of the beach volleyball tournament 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ella: What drills do you have your team practice for learning how to spike a ball? Coach Goede: I worked with the team to jump or push with their left foot, if they hit right handed, or with my star player, Ella French, she needed to jump or push off with her right foot because she spikes left handed. Pushing off with the opposite foot gets your hitting hand higher for a more powerful downward spike. Ella: Do you encourage communication on the court? Coach Goede: I always encourage communication on the court. Players need to talk and call the ball by saying, “I got it!� Ella: Do you teach the players underhand or overhand serving? Coach Goede: I do teach both, but it is up to the player how they want to serve. There are professionals that serve both underhand and overhand.
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Coach Goede’s daughter, Bergen, practices her overhand serving.
Ella: How do you help prepare/warm up the team before a game? Coach Goede: I try to have the girls focus first of all, and then do some hitting skills to loosen up their muscles, etc. before a game. One of the ways Coach Goede warms up his team is by having the girls get in a circle and pass the ball. The girls also practice not letting the ball hit the ground in this warm-up.
Ella: What are the pros and cons to coaching Fifth, and currently Sixth Grade Girls’ Volleyball?
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Coach Goede: There are definitely more pros than cons, because the girls are awesome, and my daughter is on the team! It is great to be around my daughter, Bergen, and her friends in a sporting environment! The only real con is trying to find a gym for us to use for practice, but that all worked out in the end! Ella: How do you motivate your team to be aggressive when returning the ball? Coach Goede: I try to tell the girls that I do not want the ball to hit the ground, meaning that they should be diving and doing anything they can to get to the ball. This picture shows a few members of Goede’s team passing the ball. Like the coach said, he teaches his team to be aggressive, this picture shows several girls going for the ball, and being aggressive.
Ella: What is a typical practice like for your team? Coach Goede: We usually practice for an hour, and it involves warm up, serving, spiking, and game simulation. Ella: What made you become interested in coaching? Coach Goede: I have always enjoyed coaching, even before becoming a Dad. I coached a swim team for two years that had 220 swimmers when I was in college and taught many swimming lessons. I really enjoy helping people achieve their goals and other personal success.
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Ella: Thank you very much! Coach Goede: You are very welcome.
Volleyball Fiction Story: Mackenzie’s volleyball team has never won a game. She decides that the reason to her team never wind may be that her teammates do not support one another. Can Mackenzie bring her team together and actually win a volleyball game before the end of the season? Read the story on the next page to find out! Page 11
Volleyball By Ella French “Get it! Get it, Get it!” yelled Tim. The volleyball arched over the net. Mackenzie watched as her teammates stood stiffly, with their arms by their side. The ball crashed right in front of Anna. The ref shouted, “Point Tigers!” Anna rolled the ball back to the other team. “What was that girls? You guys were as straight as sticks!” Coach Tim yelled. Everyone surrounded Tim in the front of the gym, as he gave his usual after the game talk. “You didn’t get serves, or return the ball. You got no points! Come on girls!” “I tried,” Anna whispered. “No you didn’t, I saw you,” Joy added. ! “Well, I didn’t see you do anything either, Joy,” another teammate said. “Girls, girls. You need to start working together as a team,” Coach Tim piped in. After the game, Mackenzie and Joy sat on Mackenzie’s bed, while eating chips and drinking Coke. “Oh my-gosh, we did horrible today!” Mackenzie said breaking the silence. “Yea, I know.” “No one called the ball, and then we were fighting at the end of the game,” stated Mackenzie. “If only we actually got along, we would probably play more like a team.” “Yea, probably,” Joy added with no emotion on her face whatsoever. “Wait…maybe the whole team could come over, and we could all become closer. “And hopefully we could finally win a game!” Joy shouted. Page 12
Mackenzie walked into her volleyball practice. “Hey guys, I was wondering if you wanted to come to my house for a sleepover tomorrow night?” “I can come,” said Joy and some other girls on the team. “Me, too,” shouted everyone else. As soon as the whole team piled into Mackenzie’s house, all of them ran up to her room. “Ok, put your sleeping bags on my bed, and then we’ll go to dinner.” Mackenzie told the girls. “Dinner was delectable!” Joy told Mackenzie. “Thanks,” she said back. The team got ready for bed, while Mackenzie got dessert for everyone. Right when she got back to her room all of the girls were swarming around her, trying to get their brownie first.
“Wow,” Mackenzie thought, “I have a lot of work to do.” “Ok guys, do you want to watch a movie?” Yes, sure, and yea filled the room while Mackenzie put in the DVD. The movie turned out to be very insipid. Mackenzie watched as her team slowly closed and then opened their eyes again. She turned off the movie. The girls started heading to their sleeping bags. “Ok…” Mackenzie’s voice was muted out by the sound of distanced cries. Page 13
“I’ll be right back,” she told the rest of the girls. Mackenzie walked through the hallway, looking for whoever was crying. She saw that the light in the bathroom was on, so she knocked. “Hello, is anybody in here?” “Go away,” a muffled voice answered. Without listening to the girl, Mackenzie swung the door open. She saw a girl on her volleyball team whom she had never talked to before. “I think her name is Emily,” Mackenzie thought to herself. “Hey, are you ok?” “I want to go home.” “Are you sure? If you want, I can get the other girls. I bet they can make you feel better.” Even Mackenzie didn’t think what she just said was true. How could people who are always fighting actually make Emily feel less homesick. “Ok,” is the only answer Mackenzie got in return. Mackenzie walked back to the bedroom and said, “Guys, Emily is really homesick. We have to make her feel better.” “Ok,” Joy said enthusiastically. Mackenzie waited until all of the girls had filed out of her bedroom before tagging along. “Emily, are you sure you want to leave? It will be no fun without you,” said all of the girls together. Emily cracked a smile, knowing that her teammates cared. Mackenzie watched as her entire team started to smile with her. In a few minutes, the team had gotten Emily back into Mackenzie’s room. Page 14
Everybody was in their sleeping bags, telling Emily that it would be okay. “I remember my first sleepover. I was so homesick, I threw up!” someone yelled over everyone else. “I was so scared, I stayed up the entire night, and pretended to go to the bathroom once every hour!” another girl said. Soon the entire team was telling their sleepover experiences. Everyone laughed, and so did Emily. The next day they were scheduled to play the Punching Pandas at ten o’clock. Throughout breakfast, the team was still laughing, and they kept reminding each other of their stories. As the girls left for the game, Mackenzie was really looking forward to it. They were going to play the worst team in the entire league, The Punching Pandas. They had never won a game either. The only time Mackenzie’s team won was when the other team had forfeited. Mackenzie thought about the sleepover, and how she really hoped the girls had bonded. As they arrived at the game, everyone was already feeling confident. After their sleepover, everyone felt like they had grown closer to each other, and they decided to act as a real team. With that in mind, everyone decided they would cheer for each other and stop criticizing each other. Mackenzie was up first to serve. She looked around at her team, and saw them smiling and bending their knees! Everyone watched as the ball flew over the net and crashed on the floor. Claps and shouts filled the air.
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As the game went on, the score went back and forth. Everyone was doing their best to win. They were on the third match, and the game was nearing the end. The score was now twenty-four to twenty-four; whoever got the next point would win the game. The Punching Pandas were up to serve. The ball came flying over the net. No one was ready for it. Mackenzie knew this would be the point that would win the game for the Punching Pandas. The ball was a few feet from the ground. The entire team looked defeated. The volleyball was practically flaming, it was flying so fast. A second before the ball hit the ground, Emily dove, hitting the ball over the net, and landing it right in front of the server’s feet.
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Everyone ran towards each other, screaming, hugging, and laughing all at once. Mackenzie looked around, seeing all of her friends smile. The entire team was proud of one another.
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