Darrin McBroom: Serving for Effect!

with Darrin McBroom,
Drake University Head Women's Coach;
2020 Missouri Valley Conference Coach of the Year;
Iowa Western Community College Head Coach (2009-2012);
four straight Division I National Tournament appearances;
2012 AVCA Midwest Region Coach of the Year;
MCC-Longview Head Coach (2005-2008);
2x Division II National Tournament appearances

Features and benefits

Drake’s Coach Darrin McBroom provides strategies to help your team become a stronger serving team. McBroom details serving philosophy and has players demonstrate various serving strategies that can reinforce effectively with the drills he shares.

Learn to develop the type of servers that you want 

Coach McBroom provides drills and philosophy to help you develop stronger servers.  He focuses on location and speed during drills to give feedback to servers on the elements they control during the server and why they want specific results.  By providing continuous feedback, McBroom helps reinforce the important ingredients of strong serving.

Determine the type of serving desired for the level of your team

McBroom discusses the variability in serving at all levels of the game.  He notes that teams can utilize the serve to help your team be successful by keeping your opponent off balance and how various concepts work at different skill levels.  McBroom explains a variety of strategies and how they can influence a game.

Impact your opponent’s setter with more strategic serving

McBroom shares data that shows how your serving location can help impact the setter’s decision making and provides insight on how your serving locations can influence the types of hits coming at your defense over the course of a match.  While it doesn’t control everything, McBroom shares how the strategy can help guide the ball away from the strongest hitters on the other side. 

In this video, Drake’s Coach McBroom helps you understand simple strategies that you can implement at any level to help influence your opponent through your serving.  McBroom gives you coaching tips on why to spend valuable practice time focusing on serving. The drills he provides gives feedback to your servers to help them stay aggressive and focused on their goals.  

Your team will be better in the seasons ahead with your time invested in this study of serving!

48 minutes.  2024.