Summer 2024 Middle School Prep Clinics

Middle School Prep Clinics will be held twice a week on Sundays and Tuesdays with each clinic being 60 minutes. Each week will feature a specific skill focus, while also incorporating overall skill development through game like situations and drills. Middle School Prep Position & Skill Clinics are designed to provide athletes with fundamental, specific training for their position or specific volleyball skills. This program is offered to all athletes ages 11 and older. This is a great option for those new to volleyball, hoping to make a middle school team, or wanting to freshen up on fundamental skills. 

You may also be interested in:
Middle School In-House program for more training and competition
Volleyball 101 clinics for players with no or less than 1 year experience

Dates 
June 2-July 16
NO Classes 6/30 or 7/2
Sundays 4-5pm & Tuesdays, 6:15-7:15pm

Cost: $120/6 classes or $225/12 classes
*$20/class when paying individually (if space is available)
Space is limited to 36 players per class

Location

C1 Sportsplex - 255 Service Bay Drive, Mauldin SC 29662 

Registration

Registration for 6 or 12 classes will open 4/15. Registration for individual classes (if space available) will open 5/1.

*Please note, if you do not have a current account in our player management system, you will be prompted to create one. The account should be created under the parent's name, then players can be added as "family members" to be registered for classes.*

Schedule

• Serving: Serving skill clinics will focus on the skills necessary to improve a player's serve. Skills covered will include hand contact analysis and breakdown, body and foot position analysis, and tips for generating power. The clinic will break down all aspects of serving and how to properly contact the ball, while also touching on serve receive passing.
• Attacking: Hitter position clinics will focus on individual physical and mental skills necessary to play the middle, outside, or right side hitter positions. Skills covered will include arm swing breakdown, hitting & blocking footwork, common sets in each position, transition footwork, and arm swing reps. The clinic will break down all aspects of attacking and how to properly contact the ball, while also incorporating aspects of defense, blocking, and setting.
• Passing: Passing position clinics will focus on individual physical and mental skills necessary for passing, serve receive, and defensive skills. Skills covered will include footwork, defensive movements, base to release transition, platform and body position. The clinic will also touch on serving, free ball offense, setting off serve receive and free balls, and defense.
• Setting: Setter position clinics will focus on individual physical and mental skills necessary to play the setter position. Players with experience setting will continue to work on footwork, hand position, set placement for outside, middle and right side sets, and set tempo. "Non"-setters will be exposed to setting skills including hand position, footwork, attacking out of system, back row attacks, and delivering a hittable set. The clinic will also incorporate passing, attacking, and blocking skills.
•  Defense: Defensive skill clinics will focus on the skills necessary to improve back row defense. Skills covered will include defensive posture and movement, platform/hand placement, and various defensive techniques such as run throughs, overhand digging, and "emergency" floor skills. This clinic will also include work on blocking, setting off a dug ball, and attacking.