Technical Timeout - The Podcast on Coaching Volleyball

In this episode I speak with James Gravelle, head coach of the Windsor University Lancers Men’s Volleyball Team. James played for the Lancers himself many years ago before transferring to the beach and making it on the FIVB World Tour for a few years in the early 2000.  He has been coaching at different levels ever since he stopped playing and he definitely has interesting stuff to share with us in this regard.   Recently, in the summer of 2015, James was named as an assistant-coach of the Canadian Men’s National B Team. That team is made of the extended Senior Men’s A Team players that don’t get to travel as well as young players identified within the Canadian University Volleyball System. So this past summer, James got to work with some of the best players in the country as well as with some of the best coaches, notably, Team Canada’s head coach Glenn Hoag and the B Team’s head coach Georges Laplante.   In this episode, he shares with us what he has learned from spending 4 months with the National Team and