Book Lessons with Coach Kaydence

Hi there! My name is Coach Eve, I played volleyball for a total of 5 years and have been officially coaching for 2 with some training before hand. When I played I was on all different kinds of teams, including C team, A Team, Freshman team and Varsity for my schools and then when I played club I played on Axiom’s 15-1, NPJ’s 15 national and then NPJ’s 18 premier for my final season!

I was very active in the recruiting process and got various offers ranging from Ju-Co to D1 for setting and passing and I love seeing other athletes work towards that goal! Ultimately I chose to pursue a degree in Biomedical Science and coach volleyball instead of playing at the next level.

As a coach I value not only pushing my athletes and helping them work towards being better players but also being better humans. My absolute favorite part of coaching is watching how my athletes change as humans along my seasons with them!

I can help you improve your skills by:

- lots of reps and making small corrections during reps, building up to a better form step by step

- lots of technical advice and a lot of game like perspective

- teaching how to identify a mistake and how to fix it mentally and physically on your own

A typical training session will always start with a sufficient warm up. Then I ask the athlete what it is they would like to work on, asking follow up questions to get specific and then setting goals for the lesson.

The rest of the lesson will be drills, and explaining what the work on and how that skill would be useful out in a game.

I started out coaching by helping my mom with her teams when I was 15. It was through that, and playing for NPJ that I was able to get the opportunity to coach at the 13’s level for NPJ’s Portland branch at 17 and continuing at 18.

I have coached along side other coaches at the 13’s level for 2 years now and have experience coaching 14’s - 18’s through various opportunities during my last 2 years of coaching.

The best coach I ever had was not a coach that I played for but a college coach that was watching me at a showcase. She was the head coach for the University of Arizona at the time, and when I had come over to complete her drill, she made me do it over again. She was also yelling at me a lot, it made me think that she didn’t like me very much but when I completed her drill, she called me over and asked me what my name was and what position I played. I told her and she told me that she loved my attitude, and that I was exactly the kind of athlete she was looking for during these showcases. I asked her what exactly caught her eye, and she told me that even though I was facing pressure, I was still cheering on my other “teammates” and that even though she was yelling at me, I was still taking her coaching and asking questions so that I could meet her expectations.

As an athlete, she brought a lot of confidence into my game and encouraged me to keep being a kind person. I did not have the best team experiences before, and even after my interaction with her, but I knew that if I continued to grow as a person and a player, that I would be able to reach my goal to play college.

As a young coach, a lot of people are hesitant to invest in my coaching. However, my connection to the volleyball world runs deep, I am a 3rd generation, player, setter, and coach. So I am the product of 2 previous generations of knowledge as well as my own. And I believe being young allows me to connect better with my athletes and explain things in a way they understand with less trouble.