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need help motivating my players...
My volleyball team won our first match last week but lost our second, to a team we should NOT have lost to.
And we play the same team again tomorrow.
I am bad at losing, especially under those circumstances. Sometimes, the other team is just better. Last week, we just beat ourselves. We were sloppy. No huge glaring errors, but we were not TRYING to win. They played like they were trying to survive, KWIM?
Unfortunately, the program was kinda "eh" before me. They graduated some talented girls but none of them got along. The coach had no rules. They were used to losing.
I need to figure out what to say to them at practice today, knowing we have the same opponent tomorrow. Any suggestions?
Re: need help motivating my players...
Can you pick specific things to work on this game?
Like - We lost to this team last week and we shouldn't have. You're a better team than that. We have way more talen than they do, but talent alone doesn't win games. We have to play together as a team and work on fundamentals. I feel like these errors contributed to the loss, so this week I really want to work on these 2 (or 3) things.
Part of it is figuring out what motivates your players? Do they do better with encouragement? Or are they the type that need you in their face screaming? You probably have some of each on the team and figuring out what each girl needs is tough.
This reminds me a lot of my college soccer team.
When I got there - the coach had only been there 2 years. Prior to him the women's team was pretty bad. It was totally acceptable to lose. The girls were always fighting and their top priority was not soccer (outside of school). All of this carried over for the first 2-3 years I was there because it was a bunch of the previous coach's recruits. It was the most frustrating thing.
I think one of your toughest jobs this season as the new head coach is letting the team (and entire school, for that matter) know that losing is not OK. I have never been in a coaching position so I really don't have any words of wisdom or advice to give you. Just based on my experience in college - it, literally, might take a year or two before the kids buy into your system and really want to win for you, themselves, and their school.
Show your disappointment when they do poorly, but be sure to show extra enthusiasm when they do well. As Allison said - be extra aware of how each player reacts to different emotions (the ones who take criticism well vs the ones who need more encouraging than others).
I definitely wish you the best of luck. I can imagine it is just as difficult to take over a program that is complacent as it is taking over a program that bomb.com.