Coaching reflects evaluation, teaching, and decision-making. There's no "coin toss" of roster selection or strategy.
Coaches can't evaluate players in a vacuum. Unavoidably, coaches compare players to a standard of performance and to players they have coached and coached against.
Facts
During tryouts coaches assess skill, volleyball IQ, athleticism, and toughness. Skill includes aggressiveness, decisions, efficiency, and consistency. Communication and attitude are 'intangibles'.
Tryouts help determine initial rosters but are usually insufficient to assign lineups or detailed roles.
Opinions
Coaches assemble facts to generate 'provisional' opinions. Because of the high number of returning players, scrimmages and the Play Day will be essential.
Here are the realities:
- "Every day is showtime."
- "Every day is PROVE IT time."
- "Prove them wrong." - Kobe Bryant
- It's not always the best players but the players who play best together.
- There is no seniority system.
- Everyone gets opportunities. Performance defines lineups.
- Things change (injuries, illness, slumps) impact lineups. The postseason lineup is seldom the same as Opening Day.
- "Favorites" don't always crack starting lineups.
With under fifty days until tryouts, the excitement builds. Be ready when your chance comes.
Lagniappe. Light 'em up.
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.” Light as many people up as you can! Similarly, blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine any brighter.
— Alan Stein, Jr. (@AlanSteinJr) July 8, 2026
Lagniappe 2. Hard makes you better.
Andrew Huberman on doing hard things: pic.twitter.com/1BFWa1QRaG
— Reads with Ravi (@readswithravi) July 8, 2026
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