About
What DMCVC is about is helping adults get better at volleyball. Not everyone had the opportunity in high school to learn the sport. We run drills and focus on technique, ending the night with free play to help enhance the polished skills. We meet every Monday from 7pm – 9pm, running October through December. Club goes for about 12 weeks. It’s a great way to improve your skills and to meet other volleyballers.
Here are some helpful terms frequently used in volleyball:
- Ace: A serve that the other team can’t return, which earns your team a point
- Antenna: One of the poles on the sides of the net that mark the boundary for legal play
- Assist: When a player sets up a teammate to make a successful hit
- Attack: When a player tries to hit the ball so it lands in the other team’s court
- Back Row: The three players who stand farthest from the net
- Block: When players jump near the net to stop the ball from coming over
- Bump: Hitting the ball with your forearms
- Court: The playing area for volleyball
- Dig: A defensive move where a player dives to keep the ball from hitting the ground
- Double Hit: When a player hits the ball twice in a row, which is not allowed
- Foot Fault: When a player steps over the serving line while serving
- Free Ball: A ball that the other team can easily play because it wasn’t hit hard
- Front Row: The three players closest to the net
- Kill: A successful hit that the other team can’t return
- Let: When the serve hits the net
- Libero: A special player who can only play in the back row and wears a different color jersey
- Match: A series of games
- Net: The barrier in the middle of the court that players must hit the ball over
- Out: When the ball lands outside of the court
- Overhand Serve: Serving the ball by throwing it up and hitting it with the hand above the shoulder
- Pass: Using your arms to hit the ball to a teammate
- Point: A score earned when the ball hits the ground on the other team’s side or they make a mistake
- Rotation: Moving a team’s players around the court in a specific order before the team serves. This gives different players on the team a turn to serve.
- Serve: When you start play by hitting the ball over the net to the other team
- Set: Using your fingers to push the ball up into the air for a teammate to hit
- Side Out: When the team that is serving loses the point and the other team gets to serve
- Spike: Jumping and hitting the ball hard over the net and toward the ground
- Substitute: Switching one player for another during the game