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Setters Volleyball Player Roles, Rules and Responsibilities Explained

Setters volleyball player responsibilities are to run the team's offense and they call the plays hitters run against blockers like a quarterback in football.

The setters volleyball role is to get to every second ball in order to run the team's offense by setting the hitter most likely to score a point or sideout.

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The setters volleyball player responsibilities include calling the offensive plays and getting to every second ball in order to run the team's offense by setting the hitter most likely to score a point or sideout.

Depending on how fast the setter wants to run their offense, they learn to deliver different kinds of sets (fast, slow, high, low) to their different hitters along pre-determined areas on the net. (Lexi Dannemiller Michigan)

When we say "the setter runs the offense" it means they call the offensive plays either verbally or with pre-determined volleyball hand signals which communicates to each hitter in the front row and sometimes the backrow, what set she is going to set them.

This is how the hitters know what type of ball they will be expected to hit.

If you're a setter just learning easy volleyball plays and understanding what types of sets your hitters are most effective hitting, you will more than likely run a slow offense with high sets to your hitters.

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As you become a more experienced setter, you will give faster sets that are lower to the net to your hitters, who will speed up their approach steps to the net so they can hit a faster paced ball.

Depending on how fast the setter wants to run their offense, they learn to deliver different kinds of sets (fast, slow, high, low) to their different hitters along pre-determined areas on the net.

A Setters Volleyball Role Is to Run The Offensive Plays

Setter Volleyball Player: An experienced setter, will give faster sets that're lower to the net to your hitters, who will speed up their approach steps to the net so they can hit a faster paced ball.

Setters Volleyball Roles: An experienced setter, will give faster sets that're lower to the net to your hitters, who will speed up their approach steps to the net so they can hit a faster paced ball.

The setters volleyball role on a team of six players, is to be the leader on the court.

Their responsibilities are to

call the plays to each of their eligible hitters
get to every second ball served to their side during a rally and
to run the team's offense by setting the hitter most likely to score a point or sideout.

The setters volleyball role or job description can be compared to the responsibilities of a quarterback on a football team or the point guard on a basketball team.

Like the point guard or the quarterback, the setter volleyball player delivers or "sets" the ball to a teammate who's responsible for scoring or attempting to score the actual points.

This is called running the offense.

Does The Setter Run Slow and Easy Offensive Plays or Fast and Harder Offensive Plays

Slow and Easy Offensive Plays

When learning or practicing basic volleyball skills the setter will usually call the following types of sets which are parts of the offense they choose to run with their hitters.

Their outside hitters will practice hitting high balls delivered to them outside and near the antenna to either zone 4 for the left side hitters or to zone 2 for the opposites or right side hitters.

While the middle hitters work with their setter on getting quick sets that are about a foot or more above the net and delivered to them at a faster pace in the center of the net which is called zone 3.

Let's compare this to what happens in football.

The Setters Volleyball Responsibilities Regarding the Middle Hitter

The Setter Volleyball Player and the Middle Hitter: He/she gives a quick set to the middle blocker, in the middle of the net, or anywhere in zone 3 along the net. (Ralph Aversen)

A Setters Volleyball Roles Regarding the Middle Hitter: He/she gives a quick set to the middle blocker, in the middle of the net, or anywhere in zone 3 along the net. (Ralph Aversen)

If you've seen a football game, the quarterback hands off the ball quickly to a running back.

I would compare this to what the setter delivers in the middle to the middle blocker.

He/she gives a quick set to the middle blocker, in the middle of the net, or anywhere in zone 3 along the net.

After the quarterback gives her/him the ball, the bigger, stronger player uses speed and strength to push the ball or hit it quickly pass the defense.

A Setters Volleyball Responsibilities Towards The Outside Hitters

The outside hitters use their speed combined with their high vertical jumping ability to score points against the defense. (Al Case)

Still using the football analogy, if the quarterback chooses to throw a long pass down the field the expectation is that their wide receiver will outrun or outjump, the opposing defensive players in order to get the ball into the end zone.

I would compare the "long pass" scenario to when a setter sets the ball much further away from her base position, to one of her outside hitters in the hope that they do the same thing.

They outjump and outhit the opposing team's defensive players, better known as outside blockers, in order to score a point for their team.

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Like wide receivers and cornerbacks the outside hitters are usually the most athletic players on the team.

Instead of relying on just using speed and strength to beat the opposing defense, the outside hitters use their speed combined with their high vertical jumping ability to score points against the defense.

As you can see there are a lot of similarities between football and volleyball, one of the biggest ones is the role of the setter volleyball player.

The outside hitters use their speed combined with their high vertical jumping ability to score points against the defense. (Al Case)

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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.

Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2

There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with

the same toss height and same toss location
the same armswing speed
the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.

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