Serve receive, rotations, drills

Draw Volleyball Rotation Sheets & Drills

Six rotations, drawn once, printed for the bench.

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Where do I stand, Coach?

Every season starts the same way: six new kids, six rotations, and one question on repeat.

The kitchen table, Tuesday night: a court on paper, six coins, and one coach walking Rotation 3 alone.
  1. 1
    Tryouts week

    Half the new kids do not understand rotating yet, including a couple who played last season. Every water break, the same question from a different face: where do I stand in Rotation 4?

  2. 2
    The kitchen table

    So you do what coaches have always done: two pennies, two nickels, two dimes, sliding coins around the table to walk six rotations. Then you hand out a photocopied sheet and hope it survives the ride home.

  3. 3
    Match night

    The laminated cheat sheet on your clipboard was right in August. Two lineup changes later it is fiction, and the referee just called an overlap nobody on your bench saw coming.

The rotation sheet was never the problem. Updating it was.

Draw your serve receive once, one rotation per step, on a real court. When the lineup changes you move a marker, not redraw the sheet. Print it clean for the clipboard, laminate it if that is your way, and share it with your assistants so they always see the current version.

  1. Six rotations, six steps

    One board holds the whole system. Step through Rotation 1 to Rotation 6 like film, and print every frame in one go.

  2. The why, not just the where

    Players see where they stand relative to each other, rotation by rotation, so the alignment finally has a picture to go with the rule.

  3. Print. Laminate. Reprint.

    The sheet prints clean every time. When the lineup changes, you print again instead of redrawing, and the old version stops living on your clipboard.

clickplays Coach L.B.

5-1, Rotation 1

6 steps
Volleyball 5-1 serve receive, Rotation 1: the setter in position one, passers in a three-person seam.
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Rotation 1 of a 5-1, drawn in ClickPlays. Steps hold the other five.

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How it works

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  1. clickplays Coach L.B.

    5-1, Rotation 1

    6 steps
    Volleyball 5-1 serve receive, Rotation 1: the setter in position one, passers in a three-person seam.
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    1

    Draw your play

    Two minutes on ClickPlays play editor, and that is the last time you draw it. It is still there next season, and it still prints.

  2. clickplays 15 min
    Serve Receive

    Butterfly

    Volleyball butterfly drill: serve, pass to target, shag and rotate to the next line.
    • Platform to target before the ball
    • Call it early, every ball
    • Pass to the ten foot line
    Directions

    Serve, pass, shag, go to the end of the other line. Twenty good passes to finish.

    2

    Make it a drill

    Your play can be used to make a drill. Nothing gets redrawn. You just write down instructions, any variants and included in the practice planner.

  3. clickplays Varsity Girls

    Tuesday Practice

    3:30 - 5:00
    3:30 - 3:45 Warm up and ball control Warmup 15m
    3:45 - 4:00 Butterfly Serve Receive 15m
    4:00 - 4:15 Setting and hitting Setting 15m
    4:15 - 4:40 Rotation 1 to 3, live Team Systems 25m
    4:40 - 4:55 Queen of the court Team Systems 15m
    4:55 - 5:00 Serve to finish Serving 5m
    clickplays.com 90 min planned of 90
    3

    Plan your practice

    The drills you already built become your next practice plan, and the minutes add up against the gym time you actually have.

Questions coaches ask

Can I make a rotation sheet in ClickPlays?
Yes. Draw each rotation as a step of one board: six rotations, six frames. Print them clean for the clipboard, or share the board read-only with your staff.
Does it work for 5-1, 6-2, and 4-2 systems?
Yes. You place the players, so any system and any receive shape works: draw the alignments you actually run and name the board after your system.
Can I diagram serve receive and base defense?
Yes. Place all six players on a regulation court, add movement and ball paths, and use steps for each rotation or phase.
Can I draw practice drills?
Yes. Coach and Tosser markers are built in, so butterfly drills, serving progressions, and defensive drills read the way you would draw them on the gym whiteboard.
Is it free?
Seven days free, then Starter is $99 a year or $12 a month: the play creator, unlimited plays and playbooks, saving, printing and sharing. PRO is $149 a year or $29 a month and adds the practice planner, the drill bank and Sideline.
Do my players need accounts to see the sheets?
No. Print the rotation sheets and hand them out. Online sharing is for your staff, who sign in for read-only access.

You are going to draw it again anyway.

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Draw all six rotations once, and print a clean sheet for the clipboard.

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