concept

High Performance Volleyball

Founded in 2009, Elemisha Volleyball is a high performance instructional summer program based in the Pleasanton/Dublin area designed to help youth volleyball players advance their game in a highly competitive yet positive setting. 

Elemisha Volleyball is open to girls and boys, and offers a supervised and coached outdoor volleyball environment where players receive instruction, guidance, coaching, and supervision, with the end goal of becoming the best volleyball player, teammate, and adversary they can be.  Participants are encouraged to push themselves outside of their normal comfort zone to accelerate their growth and self-esteem. Emphasis is placed on extracting the most from players while providing an environment where they will never get “benched.” We believe this allows them to find their authentic competitive identity. Our mission is simple – give the players a place to accelerate their skills rapidly, VERY competitively, and organically without the constant additional pressure associated with worrying about "losing/keeping their starting spot."

Elemisha Volleyball is designed to foment strong play skills, good sportsmanship, and a high level of competition comfort.  

ethos

Elemisha Volleyball ethos

  • We hit hard - always

    • Plenty of attackers are able to hit perfect sets well. We hit ALL sets with pace

    • We serve hard

    • We always pressure the opposing team

  • We better the ball

    • Every contact should be aimed at eventually producing an aggressive attack - this starts with trying to improve the quality of the contact with every touch

  • Everybody does everything

    • Every player will serve, pass, set, hit, dig, and block, irrespective of their native position

    • We expect every player to strive to improve in EVERY phase of the game, period

  • We try hard things

    • Set with our hands

    • Jump serve

    • Take aggressive swings

    • Chase down every ball on defense

    • Improve passing by understanding how to mitigate mechanical errors

    • Celebrate failure, because that is how we improve the breed

  • During our training, we are focused on improvement over winning

    • We always keep score in every scrimmage, but faced with a choice for an easy kill to simply score a point as opposed to a touch that will “improve the breed,” we always opt for the latter

  • EVERY player is a starter, always

    • There is no sitting on the bench in our program. Everybody participates in every drill and scrimmage, period.

  • We embrace positivity

    • Positive coaching

    • Positive player attitude - “I may not be good at this yet, but I’m going to be…..”

    • Positive results - our players improve in every phase of the game, period.

  • We will do math

    • We will understand the math behind volleyball

    • Pythagoras WILL be mentioned - multiple times