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Coach K’s Volleyball Camp returns for 28th year

MARIETTA, Ohio (WTAP) – Coach K’s volleyball camp is back for a twenty-eighth year at Marietta high school. Today marks the second day of action as athletes spanning grades three through twelve came to learn and compete. What started as a small camp has grown into a big event for the MOV with hundreds of […]

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MARIETTA, Ohio (WTAP) – Coach K’s volleyball camp is back for a twenty-eighth year at Marietta high school. Today marks the second day of action as athletes spanning grades three through twelve came to learn and compete. What started as a small camp has grown into a big event for the MOV with hundreds of campers.

“It’s just. To me, I’m just amazed it’s been this long and we’ve stayed with Coach K’s camp for this many years and it just keeps getting, growing and growing,” Coack K said. “So I’m proud of it and all my assistants and all the helpers and the kids have come to camp. You know that’s important”

It’s been a positive first two days of camp as coach Kidder is happy with the attitudes of the campers and the progress they’ve made.

“All the campers did really, really well. There’s been, we’ve had a lot of kids here this week. In our first session we have about 80, 70 to 80 kids and our second session about 110 to 130 kids, about 40 or so in our third session. So there’s a lot of kids. But it’s well organized and I got a lot of help. That helps and I think the kids are learning and getting better. Fundamentals more than anything, the fundamentals and you know doing things the right way, having fun and enjoying the game. And again, I want the game to be fun for them. So that’s kind of what I wanted. I want them to learn the fundamentals.”

For John Glenn volleyball player Chloe Goff, this camp is a great opportunity to learn from a different set of coaches. She appreciates the fresh perspective Coach Kidder and his staff provide.

“This camp has been great,” says Goff. “It’s great to be out of my regular gym like get more perspective from different coaches and this is also where I play club, so it’s great to just be back in the gym with Coach Kidder and Fulton and the rest of the coaching staff. It’s great to just be in a new place like new perspective with different coaches. Just a different view on myself as a player and just to see my team again, it’s great. It’s definitely refreshing.”

As always, Coach K has a few of his Marietta players working the camp. They get to participate early and then do some coaching later on.

“I remember my first coach K camp. I was just so happy to be there and just really appreciative of all of like previous players getting to show me things that they can do and now being like on the other side and being older and being able to, you know, teach younger kids and like watch them make mistakes that I did when I was younger. It’s just super cool to be on the other side of it,” Wilkinson says.

At the conclusion of the camp, the players have a chance to win a plethora of prizes, so competition is sure to be high.

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