šŸ Keegan Cook and Luka Slabe

Interview + practice sessions of 2 absolute volleyball experts.

March 10, 2024

Welcome to The VolleyBrains Weekly. Just dropping by your mailbox, sharing 2 absolute coaching gemsā€¦

  • Masterclass session: Keagan Cook

  • New practice videos: Luka Slabe

Masterclass session: Keagan Cook

Served 2 weeks ago and still cooking (yeah, I just did that).

Keegan Cook is the head coach of the University of Minnesota's volleyball team.

He brought his expertise over from the University of Washington, where he was the head coach from 2015 to 2022.

Coach Cook has been recognized with multiple accolades, including the Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2020, and was the AVCA Board President throughout 2022 and 2023.

In this Masterclass Keegan talks about:

  • Advice thatā€™s crucial to coaches starting out

  • Your ability as a coach to handle issues and problems

  • Why itā€™s important to increase the speed of information in your program

  • How the transfer portal is a mirror of the underlying decision-making

  • How simple rules lead to complex and intelligent behavior

  • Being redundant with your communication

  • The benefits and the created new danger of lean second contacts

  • The simple, but powerful effect of compound interest in volleyball and life

  • And so much more...

We've got 17 video clips (55+ minutes) and over 8400 words in Coach Cook's Masterclass.

72. Keegan Cook: We are what they learn.

Keegan Cook is the head coach of the University of Minnesota's volleyball team. He brought his expertise over from the University of Washington, where he was the head coach from 2015 to 2022.

volleybrains.com/keegan-cook

IG sneak peek

New practice videos: Luka Slabe

Freshly, freshly launched.

What is happening in the training gyms around the world? Today we have NC State's head coach Luka Slabe going over his practice organization.

This article is part 1 of a 2-article video session with Luka Slabe.

Our next VB article will be part 2 where coach Slabe narrates the entire practice session explained in today's video. (that will be a huge one)

In this article, Luka gives a very detailed, 30-minute overview of how he organizes his practices and sets expectations. Luka also goes deeper into certain specific team and practice aspects.

73. Practice videos: Luka Slabe - Whiteboard session

What is actually happening in the training gyms around the world? Today we have NC State's head coach Luka Slabe going over his practice organization.

volleybrains.com/luka-slabe-whiteboard

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