TOURNAMENT INFORMATION
IVP Colorado is proud to present the 34th annual Dig or Die Volleyball Tournament!
PRIZES & GIVEAWAYS:
FREE - Classic Dig or Die tank top
FREE - Beverages, and Beer (21) for all Participants
FREE - 2 days use of the Fort Collins Club (you must provide your own lock and towel)
FREE - Entry to Players Party at the Ft Collins Club and Free Appetizers
WHEN/DIVISIONS:
August 3: Friday: Men’s Dino - Combined age 80 (10 Team limit, Fort Collins Club)
August 4: Saturday: Saturday: Women’s A, Men’s A, Men's Open/AA Sand (12 Team Limit, Chippers), Men’s A/BB Sand (12 Team limit, Fort Collins Club), Women's AA/A Sand (10 Team Limit, Chippers), Men’s B, Co-ed BB, Co-ed 4's Grass, Junior Girls
August 5: Sunday: Sunday: Women’s BB, Women’s B, Men’s BB, Co-ed B, Co-ed A, Men's Open/AA Sand, Men’s A/BB Sand, Women's AA/A Sand
WHERE:
The Fort Collins Club, Edora Park, Chippers
REGISTRATION:
Online registration is open for the event. You can register onsite on the day of the tournament if space is available.
By July 1st, , entry fee: $70/team - Juniors $45/team (under 18 years of age)
After July 1st, (if space is available): $80/team, Juniors $55/team
On-site (if space is available): $90/team, Juniors $60/team
DEADLINE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 2nd AT MIDNIGHT.
WITHDRAWALS/CANCELATIONS:
Withdrawals/cancelations prior to July 30th will be given full refund. No refunds if play is rained out.
CHECK IN: (Fort Collins Club parking lot, west side):
Bring valid ID to check in. Every team (both people) must check in together on the day of your division. Check in is from 7:00am to 7:45am at Fort Collins Club parking lot, west side. Play starts at 8am.
NOTE: PORTIONS OF THE PROCEEDS WILL GO TO RUSTY SCOTT YOUTH VOLLEYBALL CHARITIES
Please direct questions to Chris Stroup at [email protected]
IVP Colorado is proud to present the 34th annual Dig or Die Volleyball Tournament!
PRIZES & GIVEAWAYS:
FREE - Classic Dig or Die tank top
FREE - Beverages, and Beer (21) for all Participants
FREE - 2 days use of the Fort Collins Club (you must provide your own lock and towel)
FREE - Entry to Players Party at the Ft Collins Club and Free Appetizers
WHEN/DIVISIONS:
August 3: Friday: Men’s Dino - Combined age 80 (10 Team limit, Fort Collins Club)
August 4: Saturday: Saturday: Women’s A, Men’s A, Men's Open/AA Sand (12 Team Limit, Chippers), Men’s A/BB Sand (12 Team limit, Fort Collins Club), Women's AA/A Sand (10 Team Limit, Chippers), Men’s B, Co-ed BB, Co-ed 4's Grass, Junior Girls
August 5: Sunday: Sunday: Women’s BB, Women’s B, Men’s BB, Co-ed B, Co-ed A, Men's Open/AA Sand, Men’s A/BB Sand, Women's AA/A Sand
WHERE:
The Fort Collins Club, Edora Park, Chippers
REGISTRATION:
Online registration is open for the event. You can register onsite on the day of the tournament if space is available.
By July 1st, , entry fee: $70/team - Juniors $45/team (under 18 years of age)
After July 1st, (if space is available): $80/team, Juniors $55/team
On-site (if space is available): $90/team, Juniors $60/team
DEADLINE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 2nd AT MIDNIGHT.
WITHDRAWALS/CANCELATIONS:
Withdrawals/cancelations prior to July 30th will be given full refund. No refunds if play is rained out.
CHECK IN: (Fort Collins Club parking lot, west side):
Bring valid ID to check in. Every team (both people) must check in together on the day of your division. Check in is from 7:00am to 7:45am at Fort Collins Club parking lot, west side. Play starts at 8am.
NOTE: PORTIONS OF THE PROCEEDS WILL GO TO RUSTY SCOTT YOUTH VOLLEYBALL CHARITIES
Please direct questions to Chris Stroup at [email protected]
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This article was provided by Coaches Network
When volleyball players at St. James Academy in Lenexa, Kan., walk into practice, they know they’d better have their game faces on. That’s because Head Coach Nancy Dorsey specializes in creating practices that are as demanding, intense, and competitive as matches. And that strategy has clearly paid off—Dorsey’s teams have won seven state titles in the past nine years and she was named the 2015 American Volleyball Coaches Association National High School Coach of the Year.
Dig or Die Volleyball Event Page. The Dig or Die Classic ran for 32 years with an amazing staff and player support. We are retiring the event and want to thank all of our sponsors and attendees for supporting the event for over 3 decades. We do have t-shirts, hoodies and nets that we are selling from past tournaments.
The first element to planning a dynamic practice, she explains, is to pick up the pace. “I want to see players in constant motion,” says Dorsey, a former outside hitter for the University of Kansas who has been at St. James since it opened in 2005. “This has an added benefit—almost all of our conditioning happens inside our drills.”
One way Dorsey creates a fast pace is by adding a time component to activities. “Instead of doing a drill until we reach a certain number of kills, I tell them they need to get a certain number of kills within a specific length of time,” she says. “Otherwise, we do it again.”
Next, she reshapes drills to make them match the energy of competition. “The idea is to take something you already do to train a certain skill and add a game-like element to it,” Dorsey says. “That increases both the pace and the intensity.
“I always explain why we’re doing what we’re doing, which is important for gaining the players’ trust,” she adds. “Especially when I have newer players, I spend a lot of time explaining why I am asking them for this level of intensity.”
One example of an energized drill is the Five-Minute Pass, in which players are continuously running, passing, and serving for five minutes. “As a result, when we are playing the sixth match of a tournament,” she says, “the players have already experienced the challenges of getting their body to work with their brain when they are fatigued.”
A third component of St. James’ practices is attaching a goal to everything the players do. “Setting the right goal for each drill is key,” Dorsey says. “It has to be hard but attainable, and you have to be willing to change the goal if you realize you set it too high.
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One thing you won’t see, however, during the team’s practices, is traditional scrimmaging. “Playing against the same people every day in practice becomes very predictable,” Dorsey says. “It’s hard to build intensity with that.”
Instead, she uses drills that create more intense scrimmage situations, often by changing the scoring method. One of her favorites is Dig or Die. “We play to seven, and if the ball hits the floor, that team loses all its points,” she says. “The intensity is incredible, compared to just going six on six and running through a rotation. The idea that they can lose all their points puts an emphasis on defensive urgency.”
Dorsey believes that planning dynamic practices also requires constant assessment and modification. “In the first week of this season, I adjusted five of the drills that we normally do,” she says. “My team this year is pretty small and we don’t have a lot of powerful hitters, so I reworked some drills to address that.”
Practice time at St. James is not only dynamic and effective, it is also fun, which Dorsey says may be the most important element of all. “There is no question that my players think practices are hard. But what I hear most often from them is that doing it this way makes it fun,” she says. “If players aren’t having fun, they aren’t getting better. Unless they love what we’re doing, they are not going to improve.”
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