College Player Volleyball Training: Offensive Volleyball Plays With Coach April: 5 vs 5 No Middle

College Player Volleyball Training: Offensive Volleyball Plays With Coach April: 5 vs 5 No Middles
Upgrade your volleyball skills with expert college volleyball prep coach Las Vegas based April Chapple creator of the Breakfast Club for College Players.
In the competitive world of prep volleyball, the jump from high school to college can feel like you're leaping across the Grand Canyon over an ever widening gap between to ledges and you have to jump from one ledge over this gap to the other ledge hoping all the while that you can land safely and on your feet.
As the leading college volleyball prep coach in Las Vegas, I've spent over 15 years bridging that gap for ambitious goal-oriented players who want to go from high school to college to play at the next level.
I'm Coach April, and my unique approach to college volleyball preparation has helped countless athletes not just make it to the collegiate level, but thrive there.
The Breakfast Club: A Legacy of Excellence
As a pro volleyball player I would come to Vegas during my time off to visit my parents who moved here from Los Angeles after my father retired.
I'd become familiar with the local high school volleyball scene and visit some campuses to watch games before flying back out to Italy or Europe where I was competing.
Over time I noticed several trends prevalent among local Vegas volleyball high school teams
For as many times Las Vegas hosted big national name tournaments like the Durango Classic, the Las Vegs Classic and others, Vegas teams were never in the top 20, 30 or even 40 top finishers.
Many collegiate coaches had a preconceived notion about the quality of skills and training Las Vegas high school volleyball players lacked and did not recruit them
The few standout Vegas prospects that were recruited often returned home early because they got injured early in the season or in their playing career or they quit because they weren't emotionally and psychologically prepared for the rigors, pace and intensity required to play collegiate volleyball.
I decided that if I were to become a trainer I'd specifically be a college volleyball prep coach in Vegas with higher standards that high school players would have to meet in order to train with me.
I was the first coach to implement a regular strength and conditioning component to all my Boot Camp class practices which included stations where basic skills were taught at two stations and strength and conditioning exercises were taught at a third and players would rotate through all three stations in a 90 minute period.
With the success of the Volleyball Voice Boot Camp classes I decided to kick up the pace, intensity and focus required to complete a 90 minute varsity level and invitation only high intensity volleyball training class.
Ten years ago, I launched what would become a Vegas volleyball institution which I called "The Breakfast Club."
This intensive year-round training program was designed to give high school players a taste of college-level volleyball training.
One of my biggest inspirations for starting the Breakfast club was that many of my 8th grade regular Boot Camp and private clients made their varsity high school teams as freshmen which started a trend that just kept continuing with my Boot Camp or Breakfast and later Volleycats Elite VBC players.
That was my goal.
At the time the NIAA had a rule which stated that freshmen couldn't make a varsity team.
That made absolutely no sense to me since freshmen players were making varsity teams all over the country and Gatorade was sponsoring a Freshmen Player of the year category for outstanding freshmen who made an impact on their varsity teams.
The question I kept asking myself was "Why was Vegas always last to jump on board to position players to compete among some of the best national talent in the country?"
So with that mindset I continued to train my young players predicting that at tryouts they would be so good that the varsity coaches could not say "No" to them.
They had to put them on their team.
And they did.
At the same time my other motivation was that I was attracting insanely talented young players to train privately ...like 12 year old Kami Miner, currently the three year starting junior setter for Stanford (who started as a freshman) and USA Girls Youth USA National Team member Gold medalist.
What started as my novel idea has evolved into a proving ground for serious athletes aiming for NCAA success.