How To Improve Volleyball Tryouts With Evaluation Software

Gathering evaluators, checking in players, and running drills are all time-consuming tasks when running volleyball tryouts. Not to mention, the process of scoring & drafting players can be an added headache if you aren’t utilizing the proper resources.

A volleyball evaluation software comes to the rescue for coaches when conducting any type of evaluation—from tryouts to clinics to mid-season evaluations. One intuitive app to score players, instantly access evaluation data, and make quick drafting decisions.

This blog explores the top three reasons why volleyball evaluation software should be used for volleyball evaluations over traditional methods like pen-and-paper forms.

Improving Volleyball Tryouts with Software

Reason #1: Easily Score Players

Toss away those archaic pen-and-paper evaluation sheets, and use your mobile device or tablet to conduct athlete evaluations instead.

Like most volleyball tryouts, you will have numerous drill stations that each measure a skill(s). For instance, one evaluator might be positioned at a station where he/she is only scoring players on dribbling. Here is where the simplicity of SkillShark comes in:

• Select players. *Choose all players or select from a player list (I.e., U10, U12, or U15 girls).

• Select the skill(s) you will be evaluating.

• Quickly score players using the slider button. *Comments and video can be added as well.

• Navigate to the next athlete for scoring. *Players can be sorted by jersey number, first name, or last name in advance for easy navigation.
  

Scoring players on volleyball evaluation software

Reason # 2: Make Accurate Drafting Decisions

Most tryouts involve several evaluators, which means a pile of paper score sheets to gather once the session wraps up. And if even one score sheet goes missing, you lose part of the picture you need to make informed team placement decisions.

With volleyball evaluation software like SkillShark, every evaluator can score athletes directly on their mobile device. Instead of tracking down each evaluator at the end of tryouts to collect their papers, every score is saved to the platform the moment it’s entered. As soon as the evaluation is over, coaches can open SkillShark’s reports, review instant player results, and make quick team placement decisions.

SkillShark has been an invaluable tool for our tryouts. We have used it with nearly 400 athletes and it has been a great addition to our participants and parents, who now receive professional-level report cards after each tryout. We will be SkillShark users for life!

Justin Dee. High-performance Director — Delta Region of USA Volleyball

Reason #3: Access Instant Reports

Reporting. A task that is undeniably avoidable by any coach. With pen-and-paper forms, you will likely spend HOURS manually inputting scores into Excel. After that tedious process, you will then need to adjust formatting and styling options in Excel to organize the data into clear and readable reports. 

SkillShark's volleyball evaluation software eliminates the need for tedious data transfer & report setup. As scores are entered by you or any evaluator, they are automatically stored on the platform. What does this mean for you? Right after an evaluation—before even getting home—you will have access to pre-generated reports that you can comb through to make quick drafting decisions.

Leveraging SkillShark’s intuitive reporting feature, here is an example of a report that can be used to make team placement decisions:

Player ranking grid on SkillShark

Wrapping Up

Make your next evaluation swift & seamless by using SkillShark's volleyball evaluation software. Save yourself the unnecessary headaches and hardships of running an evaluation with pen-and-paper forms.

Instead, switch to volleyball evaluation software that manages every step of the evaluation process for you. From inviting evaluators and scoring players to collecting data and analyzing player insights, SkillShark takes care of the details for you. Therefore, you can focus your time & energy on what matters most: coaching your team to success.