Antoine G.

I am the co-founder and assistant director of Precision Volleyball Academy, a Junior Olympic volleyball club out of Cleveland Ohio, that competes in the OVR (Ohio Valley Region). I am currently the head volleyball coach at Garfield heights high school, this is my 10th season. I have 19 years on coaching experience. I have coach club ball ages ranging from 11's - 18's. I have coached, run youth camps and clinic for k-12 and trained many collegiate level players. I am IMPACT certified, ASEP certficated, I am a member of the Art of Coaching Volleyball, American Volleyball Coaches Association(AVCA) and the Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association. I am a student of the game and very passionate about the growth and success of the sport of volleyball and lives of the athletes that I have come in contact with via the game of volleyball.

I started playing volleyball during my sophomore year in high school and continued until graduating high school, earning honorable mention and the coaches award. Unfortunately, my coach did not inform me that playing college volleyball was an option or that you could get a scholarship playing, however, the sport inspired me and gave me the will and to drive seek the education tha I needed to coach, train, assist and prepare my student-athlete for collegiate level volleyball. I am humbly honored to says that although I didn't have the previledge and/or the opportunity to play at the collegiate level, well over 85% of the student-athletes that I have coached/trained have move on to play college ball. In 2012-2013 I was Coach of the Year. Although, we finished second and my senior captain was awarded MVP of the Northeast Ohio Conefence River Division, I had 3 players awarded All Conference and 2 Honorable mention award winners.

During the first session, it would be important to get to know the client, how many years of experience with the sport the client has and what attracted the client to volleyball as their preferred sport? This is a very important question and could be "the end to justify the means". We would discuss the skill and/or skills that the client would like to strength most of all. We would discuss long term and short term goals that the client would like to accomplish, what the client should expect of me and what I will expect of the client. I would explain my 4 ground rules: 1. Come to training ready to learn, 2. Ask question without fear, 3. Never give up and 4. Respect the game and have fun.

Next, I would want to do a complete assessment of the client during warm ups and skill set as we go through and revisit each of the six volleyball skills, meanwhile, I am taking into account what muscle groups are being used, which muscle groups may need to be strengthened, what stretches are needed prevent injury, proper mechanics of each skill and what footwork is needed to perform the skill correctly. Throughout this process I would give the my client positive feedback during each skill assessment.

Leading up to the closing of the training session, I would discuss my assessment result with my client. I would recommend only the adjustments that I see would improve the client success rate and walk through ,by demonstrating, each skill and ask that the client try to mimic my movements. I would give the client a few homework drill to prepare for the next session.

Lastly, I would thank my client for their time and energy!