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Kimmy G., Aliso Viejo, CA Volleyball Coach

Kimmy G.

Volleyball

SILVER
12 reviews

Former female division one volleyball player wants to improve your skills and game strategy to raise your level of play in an efficient and caring atmosphere. View all coaching experience

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Training Locations
Training Locations
  1. Kite Hill Recreation Center, Recreation Center Dr, Laguna Niguel, CA
  2. Laguna Hills Community Center & Sports Complex, Laguna Hills, CA
  3. 23002 Aliso Creek Rd, Aliso Viejo, CA

My training location only

  • Baylor University (TX)

  • 8 years

  • Qualified Private Coach
    Passed Coach Course

  • Adults, Kids, Teenagers

  • Libero, Middle Blocker, Opposite, Outside Hitter, Setter

  • Blocking, Digging, Hitting, Jumping, Serving, Setting, Spiking, Serve Receive

Credentials

  • Baylor University (TX)

  • 8 years

  • Qualified Private Coach
    Passed Coach Course

Services

  • Adults, Kids, Teenagers

  • Libero, Middle Blocker, Opposite, Outside Hitter, Setter

  • Blocking, Digging, Hitting, Jumping, Serving, Setting, Spiking, Serve Receive

More About Coach Kimmy

I have coached ages 7 to 17 boys and girls. I've coached at the USYVL level as a clinician level where I taught adult volunteers how to coach their players, breaking down the skills so even beginner coaches felt confident in coaching their players. This league included boys and girls, ages 7-15, and during practices and games I would also roam the courts to help individual players with their skills.

For 4 summers in college, we ran our annual Baylor volleyball camp, where I would lead a team for a week at a time through 3-per-day practices.

In 2006-2007, I coached a U-17 girls club team in Memphis where we competed at local and inter-state tournaments. In 2007-2008, I coached a U-15 girls club team at the same club. When coaching in Memphis, I was CAP and IMPACT certified.

From 1997-2001 I competed at Baylor University, where we went to the NCAA tournament twice and I was named to the academic all-conference team all four years I was eligible. I was a 4-year starter as a defensive specialist (before there was a libero), also training as a backup setter and outside hitter.

From 1994-1997, I played for the Laguna Beach Volleyball Club. In my 1996-1997, my U-18 team finished in the top 20 of U-18 teams at the Asics Festival at UC Davis. In my 1995-1996 club season, my U-16 team was rated #1 in the country for most of the season until finishing 2nd at the then Kaepa Festival at UC Davis. I have played every position and can improve a player in every position.

My area of expertise is ball control, off-the-net defense, serving, anticipation and overall game strategy. Many of my drills are multi-faceted, allowing players to work on several skills at once and putting them in game-like situations. Each drill would be broken down to the very basic skill, but can also have skills added on to simulate more gamelike situations.

Warm-ups would consist either of the player tossing to themselves and hitting over the net (warming up entire body while), run-through passing drills where the player would pass and simulate passing short balls to the setter (warming up legs while working on pass control) or setting drills to the outside hitter position from the setter position (warming up arms and legs while improving touch for when setter is out of the play.

Serving: players should have 2 serves in their arsenal: 1) the ability to hit an pointed spot on the court to expose the other team's weakness; 2) an aggressive, fast-paced serve designed to score points (could be a jump-serve, jump-float or just a tough, grounded float serve). Drills include serving to hit cones, serving at full strength - improving serving is very much reliant on repetition.

Passing: the core principles for passing are broken down to expand the understanding beyond putting arms together. Drills include: passing free/down balls and transitioning to offensive hitting in smooth motions to help player understand the importance of rhythm and pace. Repetition drills to pass (overhand and underhand) to a setting target to perfect free ball and down ball passing. Passing against different serves: floater, jump-serve; then including the transition to hit.

Hitting: Ball control is also valuable in hitting. Players should be able to hit line, hit cross, see the block, use a cut shot and a tip. The more ways you can manipulate your hand in simple drills like pepper, the more tools you can have as a hitter. Adjusting a players arm swing speed, approach steps and transitioning from passing to hitting are all skills where gamelike simulation drills will improve through repetition.

If requested, each session would end with 5-10 minutes of strength-training, conditioning, yoga or other form of training to improve overall fitness.

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Client Reviews

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Excellent instruction paired with encouragement and confidence-building!

Coach Kimmy was great! Very informative and at all times gave positive feedback. Helped with form and delivery of the game. Looking forward to our next session :)

Very knowledgeable and great at teaching techniques.

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Coach Kimmy is an absolutely fantastic coach! She is highly skilled, knowledgable, patient, and an excellent teacher. After only a few sessions, my 13 year old daughter (brand new to the sport) has made significant improvement in all her skills. Most importantly, she loves working with Coach Kimmy, and can't wait for her next session!

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We used Kimmy to teach our 10 year old some fundamentals of volleyball before she played in a league. Kimmy was great! She was professional and very engaging. My daughter is a little shy and really liked working with Kimmy. She is a great Volleyball coach and keeps it fun for a kid. Highly recommend Kimmy!

Coach Kimmy was very helpful to Madison at her first lesson today. She worked on new skills and reinforced her current skills. Madison is looking forward to her next lesson.

Coach Kimmy is a great coach and her one on one work is paying huge dividends for my daughter

Audrey has learned so much in the last 2 volleyball sessions with Coach Kimmy. She's been playing since middle school, but was really never taught proper fundamentals. This will up her game for sure!

We are so happy with Coach Kimmy. She is a great coach!!!!

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