It seems like once a month I find myself on the campus of The University at Buffalo, enjoying what I call "coffee talk", with UB Women's Volleyball Assistant Coach Adam McLamb (15 Red).  Adam keeps me up to date with things happening on his campus and our gym!  To hear things from the perspective of a Division I college coach is always enlightening. 

As many of you may know (or now you do), I am not a volleyball coach.  So, I rely on the knowledge of our incredible staff to guide me through this crazy world!  When I ask Adam how things were going with the new training model, his response was enthusiast and very honest!  Rather than put it in my own words, I have asked Adam to write a "blurb" about the new gym environment.  Below you will find a statement from Coach Adam:

To make yourself better sometimes you have to reinvent what you are doing. Most of the time, the easiest reinventing is to get better at doing the basic things better than everyone else. That is a huge part to successful teams at the college level. Everyone sees amazing college players and think they are just naturally gifted. What they don’t see is how much time they put into doing the little things better than their competition. The type of training happening at Niagara Frontier is what those “gifted” athletes do all the time. It can be very monotonous at times but the benefits from the training is what will make this club go to the next level.  It is a system that thrives on lots of passing, setting and hitting with an emphasis on the process rather then the result. This training is implemented in a lot of college programs. For the athletes that want to play in college, this will give them a leg up on the training taking place and what to expect when they go to college and step into the gym for their first year. It allows them to understand how to make the smallest changes in their form and technique and tell their body what to do rather than allow the volleyball and the pace of the game to dictate it. Stay focused on the process and not the immediate result, because by the end of the season the process everyone has been working on will result in a great championship culture, higher level of volleyball and wins.