Run-through volleyball drills are a dry run for your defensive players. They should be quick enough to pick up those short dumps by the setter. This is a good drill to get them used to doing that in a real volleyball match. Hence the dry run comment.

This run-through drill helps girls (or boys) work on moving feet to pass short volleyballs. This is a great warm up passing volleyball drill. Once you can tell they’re tired, switch groups and repeat as necessary.

You will need two groups of about 4-5 high school volleyball players.One group on the volleyball court the other group will help shag, target and hand volleyballs to the coach.

1. Group 1 starts in corner in a line.
2. Each girl must wait to run until the volleyball is tossed.
3. At the toss, she runs through the ball while passing to the target and then loops back to the back of the line.

In a way all drills are dry runs. After they do this dry run for about a week. Test it out in a game. See if this drill helped your defensive girls improve their short, digging game.