Energy

What floats your boat? Offense, defense, the combination? 

Volleyball synthesizes six basic skills.

Serving / digging 
Attacking / blocking
Passing / setting 

In volleyball, as in basketball, technique beats tactics. Teams can't trick their way to success. 

But intangibles matter, too. 

Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" stacks process values needed to create success. At the cornerstones, he places industriousness (hard work) and enthusiasm (energy). 

Excellent teams ACE their experience - with ATTITUDE, CHOICES, and EFFORT. We can't choose what happens; we choose our response. 

We own our daily energy, the intensity we bring to this moment, this practice, this play. It resonates when we're tired, stressed, under pressure. Successful teams find resilience within, resilience borne from the daily struggle at practice to play present with the energy of now.