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CHEERING TECHNIQUE

By Az Volleyball Mom, 09/12/22, 11:45AM MST

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4 Tips to Proper Cheering Technique

By following these essential supporting principles, your athletes, teams and coaches will reap great rewards. Then, when you share them with other parents, everyone will benefit.

4 Cheering Tips from USA Volleyball

Employ proper cheering techniques

  1. Do not boo or intimidate any player, official or spectator.
  2. Avoid “The Gasp” – players know when they make mistakes; your gasp only highlights their error. Instead, yell something positive, like “Let’s go, you can do it,” and eventually they will.
  3. No “coaching” from the sidelines. Coaches spend many hours teaching your child the game of volleyball and how to become a better player – let them continue this endeavor at tournaments. Otherwise you will have six players looking into the stands at parents hollering coaching advice and none of them will hear the coach.
  4. It is fine to appreciate great performances – by either team! So when the opponents make a magnificent play, give them a cheer. If the play is just unbelievable, stand up and cheer. I have done this a few times myself even while I am coaching, of course, I then ask my players to play as great as their opponent has just demonstrated, and they usually respond to the challenge.

By following these essential supporting principles, your athletes, teams and coaches will reap great rewards. Then, when you share them with other parents, everyone will benefit.


4 Tips for Proper Cheering Technique