Ruth Nelson is an American volleyball coach, innovator, teacher, motivator, sports marketer, fundraiser and visionary. From making an impact on the juniors scene, to accruing over 500 wins coaching at the collegiate level, all the way to the pros and USA national team, the half of a century's work in her wheelhouse is well-documented. She is the innovator of BYOP (bring your own parent) - a junior's system where the parents assist in the process and player development of the junior. She is in the hall of fame under multiple volleyball institutions, including USA volleyball, and AVCA, and is most recently the recipient of the Jim Coleman Award.
02:31 - BYOP (bring your own parents), what it means, the advantages and the challenges, parents who are former players
18:43 - sustaining an energy level vs burning out, learning and then unlearning the "deep dish"
25:25 - Making sure we are not teaching our kids many dimensions of playing
38:20 - Her first "role model," how new rules changes affect some levels in a big way but with other levels not at all, the 10u ball, What kind of impression do we leave with kids we coach?
55:41 - Who is Jim Coleman, and what he means to her, the long stint with the US team, cool story about Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth
1:14:54 - teaching all the skills so the player can understand the game collectively, loyalty in the game, teaching the "mental"
1:30:00 - players who become coaches, and how much do they actually help
1:44:42 - more process and technique, fun stories about being at the right place at the right time, consider "experience," experience, plus "tell me something that I don't know" (satire)
1:54:28 - "Studies show?" I have some rules
2:04:08 - Ask any coach how much of the game is mental? Now, ask them how much do you teach it? Can you?
2:14:45 - intelligent decision-making for OH's
2:22:22 - Good volleyball books for different levels of coaching and playing, the art of NOT feeding the trolls, plus, more examples of learning it before teaching it
2:33:30 - Caring about the sport vs how one fits into it vs the ego indentity, A Dana White story, enlisting people who are part of the solution and not the problem, if it starts from the top down, when do we start looking at the top.
2:45:17 - About John Speraw, , being both deserving AND capable, "Ruthipedia.com," what google says vs what Chat GPT says, are you easy to get along with as a coach
3:30:44 - The first vollyeball book I ever read, what the rule myths are vs what the actual rule really is, about Danielle Scott
3:10:30 - Lightning rounds, but not really
