Middle School Prep Clinic ’25 – On Demand

Get access to:

• 6 hours of coaching sessions with court demonstrations
• Printable clinic handbook PDF with session notes
• Certificate showing hours spent watching the clinic that can be used for professional development hours
• Lifetime access to watch the clinic on demand
• 2 bonus videos about organizing your middle school season

How to access the video

After purchasing, you can access the clinic video and download the clinic handbook under My Dashboard >> Clinic Video.

Clinic presenters:

• Deborah Newkirk, M.S. Ed. (Founder of COACH ‘EM UP and Head Coach of Lawrence High School)
• Brian Tate (Assoc. Director and 13s Head Coach of Dynasty Volleyball, 2021 15s National COTY)

Clinic sessions:

• Running effective middle school tryouts (Newkirk)
• Dialing in your daily warmup routine (Newkirk)
• Teaching the six essential skills (Newkirk)
• Teaching overlooked skills from wrist snap to footwork (Newkirk)
• Adding talk and movement to every drill (Newkirk)
• Cultivating mindset and buy‑in from athletes (Newkirk)
• Using multi-skill training to develop well-rounded athletes (Tate)
• Intro to systems (Tate)
• Serve receive formations that work at your level (Tate)
• 3 essential middle school drills (Tate)

Bonus videos:

• Breaking down and planning your season: Part 1 (Newkirk)
• Breaking down and planning your season: Part 2 (Newkirk)

Pricing & Discounts

• AOC Premium members receive a 10% discount automatically at checkout.

Attendees of this clinic are saying:

“I loved this clinic! Coming in as a new coach, this clinic helped me develop my coaching philosophy, plans for tryouts, and potential drills to try with my team. I’ve played volleyball for years, but I was having trouble understanding how to transfer my experiences to coaching. This clinic helped me do that!”

“This clinic is amazing, especially for new coaches. I highly recommend everyone attend next year’s!”

“I absolutely loved this clinic. I felt like I learned so much and will be able to implement changes in my program instantly and see a change in my program.”

“I loved that Deborah Newkirk was very in tune with the teaching aspect when it comes to middle school. She was very knowledgeable about how middle school students function as athletes, students, and people.”

“This clinic was very helpful and provided a good amount of information for me to feel confident going into my first year of coaching.”

“The clinic was great. I have lots of ideas that I plan to use when I prep for my season.”

“I ended up attending only after the day of the event. I actually found this very helpful so that I could digest each workshop independently, taking as long or short of a break as I wanted to, often backing up in the middle of a workshop to see a drill again. I anticipate using this as a review, several times throughout the season, particularly emphasizing specific drills and some of the troubleshooting videos. Thank you for a great workshop!”

“Great information! Can be used at all levels.”

“The AOC coaches provided great ideas for other coaches to take away and apply to their teams. I appreciated the thoughtful delivery of the information that easily allows all to benefit from its application. Thank you AOC!”

“The timing worked perfectly for me. Our middle school tryouts begin in a week. It was unfortunate that Deborah’s wireless microphone was not working. However, for me, because she can use a coaching voice I was able to understand everything she said, even when she was away from the microphone that was on the ball cart. Note; I listened with a good set of earbuds.”

“I love your clinics and content. I really look up to Deborah Newkirk and have utilized many of her resources on AOC in my 7 coaching seasons. It was a pleasure to see her work with young athletes.”

“It was a great experience to hear other coaches expertise and thoughts on the game of volleyball.”