Improve Tryouts with Volleyball Evaluation Software

Improve Tryouts with Volleyball Evaluation Software

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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.

Benefits of Volleyball Evaluation Software

1. Score players on your mobile device

The problems with pen-and-paper evaluations are as follows:

  • Print stacks of evaluation forms (usually one sheet for each player).
  • Ensure all evaluators receive the correct form prior to any tryout, camp, or clinic.
  • Have evaluators (and any coaches who score players) enter each score one by one.


Entering the scores for players should be the easy part of evaluations. However, with the large stack forms that evaluators have in their hands, evaluators will often misenter scores for the wrong player—posing problems down the road when it comes time for analysis.

With volleyball evaluation software, scoring players is one fluid process. Simply upload your players, customize your evaluation template, invite evaluators, and score players through mobile devices. Rather than typing in scores, evaluators can use a simple slider button to enter scores, drastically reducing the chance of misentered information.

Scoring volleyball metrics

Scoring players on volleyball evaluation software

2. Instantly access data after evaluations

Multiple evaluators are typically present at any tryout. What does this mean for you? More evaluation papers to collect. What happens if you don’t hand-collect each paper from an evaluator? If a score sheet doesn’t get collected, it will be impossible to conduct a thorough analysis to determine suitable players for your team.

With volleyball evaluation software like SkillShark, every evaluator will have access to the app right on their mobile device (at no extra cost to you). Instead of locating each evaluator at the end of tryouts to hand-collect their papers, all scores are automatically stored on the platform the minute they are entered.

When it comes time to view player insights after an evaluation, coaches will head to the reporting section of SkillShark to instantly view player results.

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

3. Get detailed player results

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- Get an overview of all your athletes’ performance. Players will be given a “category overall score” which averages all the skills they were scored on, such as blocking, attacking, serving, etc.
  • Using this “category overall score,” coaches will have an in-depth understanding of where each player ranks.
Player ranking grid on volleyball evaluation software

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.

See How Much SkillShark Will Save You

$ USD
SkillShark would be of the athlete’s fees, and you get:
  • Unlimited Groups
  • Unlimited Evaluation Events
  • Unlimited Evaluators
  • Excel Data Export
  • TeamSnap, SportsEngine, and TeamLinkt Integrations
  • Individual Development Reports
  • Player Comparison Reports
  • Athlete Self-Assessments
  • Player Check-In
  • Message Center
  • Draft Mode
  • Cumulative Reports
  • Event Leaderboards
  • Pocket Radar Connect Integration
  • AI Vision Analysis (Contact Us)
  • Player Development Resource Library
  • Coach Security Level
  • Priority Support
  • API Access
  • Early Feature Access
  • White Label Reportings
  • Demographic Reporting Engine (Optional)
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Frequently Asked Questions — Volleyball Evaluation Software

Some primary benefits of volleyball coaching software are:

• Check-in players and add walk-ons, right from your mobile device.
• Sort players into lists for simplified evaluations
• Select from a pre-filled evaluation template or customize your own.
• Score players on your mobile device. Add any additional comments or videos.
• Have instant access to evaluation results with SkillShark’s auto-generated reports.

Coaches and evaluators can both use volleyball evaluation software:

• Coaches: Create evaluation templates, upload athletes, review player data, and send athlete report cards
• Evaluators: Simply score athletes right from their mobile device.

Entering evaluation data into spreadsheets becomes a monotonous and time-consuming task (with room for human error).

With SkillShark, access auto-generated reports immediately after your evaluations are complete. In minutes, you will have access to advanced reporting, enabling you to easily rank & compare players, draft teams, and even provide individual player feedback.
Danielle Stringer

Danielle is a dynamic content marketer with a unique blend of creativity and analytical expertise. She is driven by her passion for helping companies scale through lead generation, always finding distinctive ways to connect with her audience. Drawing from her extensive background in B2B SaaS, she is thrilled to apply her skills and knowledge in her current role at SkillShark Software Inc.