Volleyball Setting Drills for Consistency and Control
Develop consistency, footwork, and decision-making with volleyball setting drills that build confidence and control for setters.
Volleyball setting drills focus on improving consistency, decision-making, and footwork to strengthen a team’s offensive flow. These drills train setters to move quickly into position, deliver accurate sets under pressure, and choose the best option for each play. By practicing repetition and game-like scenarios, athletes build confidence, sharpen technique, and develop the leadership skills needed to run an effective offense.
Volleyball Setting Drills for Consistency and Control
Volleyball Defense Drill: Touch Ten!
This volleyball defense drill builds aggressiveness and reading skills as defenders work to touch ten attacked balls before rotating out.
Volleyball Middle Hitter Drill: Run the Middle!
This volleyball drill trains middle hitters to attack out of serve receive while improving timing, passing accuracy, and setter-hitter connection.
Volleyball Serve Receive Drill: No Easy Points!
This volleyball serve receive drill emphasizes passing accuracy, offensive execution, and earning rotations through consistent swings under blocking pressure.
Volleyball Pepper Drill: Two-Way Pepper
This volleyball pepper drill develops ball control, communication, and awareness by alternating straight and cross-court down ball exchanges over the net.
Volleyball Pepper Drill: Cross-Court Pepper
This volleyball pepper drill develops ball control, passing, setting, and down ball accuracy through continuous cross-court exchanges with a partner.
Volleyball Ball Control Drill: 25 Contact Challenge
This volleyball ball control drill develops passing, setting, and hitting skills while emphasizing communication, teamwork, and consistency through a 25-contact challenge.
Volleyball Ball Control Drill: Back Row Attacks
This volleyball drill improves ball control and communication while training players to execute purposeful back row attacks to specific court zones.
Volleyball Warm-Up Drill: Tag Team Warm-Up
This volleyball warm-up drill keeps large groups active by combining passing, setting, tipping, and teamwork with a tag-in rotation system.
Volleyball Warm-Up Drill: Back Row Running Warm-Up
This volleyball warm-up drill combines passing, setting, and back row attacking with constant movement, communication, and ball control.
Volleyball Offense vs. Defense Drill: Sideout or Lose
This volleyball drill emphasizes the importance of first-swing sideouts, encouraging aggressive offense and strong teamwork against live serves.
Volleyball Competitive Drill: Reverse Sideout Game
This volleyball drill emphasizes offensive termination by rewarding points only when a team successfully wins a rally off serve receive.
Volleyball Competitive Drill: Offense vs. Blockers
This volleyball drill trains hitters to attack against a live block while blockers focus on forming doubles and making strong touches at the net.
Volleyball Offense Drill: Kill Drill
This volleyball drill emphasizes the importance of terminating rallies with a kill, training hitters to attack aggressively while defenders work to extend plays.
Volleyball Down Ball Drill: Down Ball Challenge
This volleyball drill develops hitting and digging skills by challenging players to execute and defend down balls behind the 10-foot line.
Double Block Attacking Drill
This blocking drill teachers players how to face a double block.
Volleyball Defense: Touch Ten
This volleyball drill will teach the defensive player to be aggressive and ready to move.
Volleyball: Passing Free Balls to Setter
This volleyball drill helps players understand proper movement for free ball transition, when passing to the setter.
Free Ball: Pass, Set, Cover, and Catch
This volleyball drill teaches players how to get into a free ball offense.
Volleyball 24 Touches - Ball Control
This drill is to practice ball control as a warm up to hitting, while working on communication and teamwork between players.
Ball Control: Pass, Set, Downball
This volleyball drill teaches how to hit a down ball to a desired location as well as work on communication skills between players.
Volleyball Ball Control: Two person Four Square
This volleyball drill increases accuracy in down balls to desired locations while also increasing communication skills between players.
Volleyball Ball Control Elimination
This elimination drill teaches players how to pin point exactly where they want their hit to go.
Volleyball Back Row Attack: Ping Pong
This ball control drill is designed to teach the pass, set, hit tempo from behind the volleyball ten foot line.
Back Row Attacking Drill
This fast paced drill will focus on back row attacking from behind the ten foot line.
Quick Setter Transitioning Drill
This fast paced drill is to teach the setter how to quickly transition to the net.
Serve Receive Transition to Hitting Drill
This is a great drill for players to work on serve receive and hitting at the same time.
Rapid Pass - Set Drill
This drill focuses on passing free balls to the setter, allowing the setter to make a good outside set to the hitter.
Net Save Drill
This drill is to teach the defender how to dig the ball out of the net on the return.
Volleyball Double Serving Game
This volleyball drill teaches the importance of trying your best for every point and trying to get every ball!
12 Ball Wash Drill
This drill teaches back row attacking and how to defend back row attacks.
4 x 2 Pepper Drill
This drill will help practice ball control using different types of contacts.
Set and Switch
This is a three person setting drill where the middle players switches directions.
Set and Spin
Simple ball control drill that focuses on setting technique.
Setters vs. Passers Game
This is a game situation drill which allows setting only for one team and passing only for the other team.
Double the Number
This is a ball control drill that starts in partners and eventually ends with the whole team passing/setting together.
Warm-up with Wall
A warm-up time for each player to warm up arms and shoulders before practice begins and at the same time be working on basic skills and ball control.
Setting Game
This simple drill helps ALL players on a team develop the overhead pass or set.
3 and Over
This is a beginner drill for players to learn and understand the three touch rule.
Partner Setting and Overhead Passing Drill
This partner setting and overhead passing drill works on perfecting the overhead pass and setting in partners. In this drill, one player is working on their setting skills while the other player is only responsible for throwing the ball to the working player.
Volleyball 3v3 Drill - Reading the Block
This volleyball 3v3 drill is great to teach your offense how to read and react to the defense. Players are forced to read whether the defense has blockers and must react to each scenario.
Individual Setting Drill
This is a individual volleyball setting drill that focuses on setting ball control and overhead passes. This setting drill can be performed at home or during training.
Line Setting Drill
This beginner setting drill will focus on the setter squaring their bodies up to their target. This is a great small group drill for beginners to work on setting with a partner.
Circle Passing Drill
This is a basic warm up drill for players to learn ball control while passing.
2 Player Down Volleyball Passing Drill
This is a fun passing drill to teach players how to quickly move and pass a ball to a specified target.
3 Player Down Ball with Movement
This volleyball drill focuses on hitting a down ball to a specific area after a series of touches.
Volleyball Ball Control with Movement
This is a great drill to focus on ball control and movement on the court.
Long Distance Back Setting Drill
This setting drill will focus on the techniques surrounding back setting at long distances for accuracy and control.
Volleyball - 2 Player Pepper Drill Multiple Hits
This pepper drill is great for working on ball control as it works on a variety of contact types.
Volleyball Set and Switch Drill
This is a great volleyball setting drill that focuses solely on the overhead pass.
"W" Passing Drill
This is a great passing drill for beginners to learn to move to the ball and pass to the setter position.
Triangle Pepper Drill - Over the Net
This volleyball pepper drill will focus on the rhythm of passing, setting, and hitting over the net to a specific target.
Cross Court Setting Drill
This volleyball setting drill focuses on cross court setting and delivering a hittable set.
Line Hitting Drill
This volleyball hitting drill focuses on hitting down the line as well as getting into a passing rhythm setting up the shot down the line.
Setting Drill - Triangle
This setting drill will focus on setting and passing overhead from different angles on the net and passing back to these targets.
Volleyball Setting and Overhead Passing Warm-Up Dril
This volleyball warm-up drill develops setting and overhead passing skills while adding movement, teamwork, and game-like pressure.
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