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Volleyball Highlights 2025: Top 12 Most UNBELIEVABLE Plays!

Volleyball Highlights 2025 featuring the top 12 most unbelievable volleyball plays, spikes, digs, aces, and blocks from VNL, NCAA, and pro leagues! These insane volleyball moments will leave you speechless.

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Leading from the Back: The Libero Legacy of Tate Rybarczyk

Tate Rybarczyk leaves behind more than just stats—he leaves a legacy. As a player who consistently led from the back, he showed that liberos can be tone-setters, confidence builders, and game shapers. His journey inspires a generation of players to embrace the back-row with pride and purpose.

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VB ADDICTION April 2013: Defensive Eyework

Understanding how to use your eyes is key to an effective defense. You may have heard the words, "Ball, Setter, Ball, Hitter." But what exactly does this mean? What information are we gathering and when are we making our eyes move in this pattern? Can you juggle? Take a volleyball and hold it in one hand near your waist. Juggle the ball by tossing it above your head, back and forth from one hand to the other. Look straight up and avoid looking at either hands while doing this. Most athletes do not need to watch the ball fall completely into their hands to know exactly where it is going to fall. Instead, we only need to see the peak of the ball's path. Once the ball reaches its maximum height, we know that the ball will fall the same way it went up. Whether backrow or frontrow, when we are in defense, we need to make sure we are watching the ball after every contact until it reaches its peak height. Once the ball starts to fall from its peak, we know exactly where that ball is falling. Then, we can switch our gaze to the Setters or the Hitters to gather as much information out of the opponents until they make contact. Ball - Watch the ball after the first contact right until it starts to drop. Setter - Watch the setter. Figure out what the setter will do based on where you know the ball is landing. Ball - Watch the ball the moment it releases from the setter's hands. React and transition into defense. Hitter - Watch the hitter the moment the set starts to drop. Set your defense based on where you know the ball is landing. Visit our Coaching Page for helpful books, tools, and equipment to improve your team's game. Are our tips helpful? Do you have a request? Want to give us your own two cents? Please Facebook us with your questions/comments and we will be sure to include you into our next VB ADDICTION! digest. #volleyballmecca #volleyballtips