Class descriptions
General Skills
Level: Beginner
This clinic is for people who are interested in learning how to play
beach volleyball for the first time, or who have played before but never
had coaching instruction in the mechanics of the game. We will be
instructing how to pass (bump), hit, and serve, as well as explaining
the game theory in terms of offense and defense.
Advanced Skills
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
This clinic is for people who are interested in improving their overall
offensive and defensive game.
Topics covered may include (but are not limited to): how to properly bump-set as well as
hand-set, target setting,
serve placement, targeted hitting, executing smart defensive plays
including receiving a serve or hard-driven ball, receiving a kill or
tip, and overall court positioning.
Instructor
bios
Coach Lon
Engel
Coach Engel has over 30 years of
combined competitive volleyball and coaching experience. Coach
Engel, as the Varsity and JV coach for the Boys' Latin School, has
had his teams in Championships in 6 of his 8 years at Boys' Latin.
Coach Engels' coaching training is through Gold Medal Squared and he
is Impact Certified. In addition to Boys' Latin, he has coached both
boys and girls teams for Time Out VBC, girls team for Baltimore
Elite and assisted the boys U18 team last season for Yorktowne VBC.
He has worked with the Bermuda National Volleyball Teams, Men's' and
Boys', as well as Coaching the women's' team that won the Silver
Medal at the 2013 Bermuda Open International Tournament. Coach Engel
has played competitively in men's' indoor USAV/USVBA tournaments, as
well as beach and grass doubles tournaments in the United States and
Abroad.
Impact Certified, GM
Squared
Coach Rebecca
Shields
Coach
Shields has had over 13 years combined competitive and coaching
experience. She is Impact Certified and registered with CHRVA and
USAV, and is assistant coach to 13 and under girls volleyball for
Maryland Juniors. Coach Shields has played competitively since 2001
through Calvert middle and high school, and through club in Southern
Maryland Juniors (SMJs) and Charles County Juniors (CCJs). She also
played competitively as a recruit for Hamilton College for the 2009
season. Coach Shields now plays in two coed clubs and two beach
leagues.