{"id":251418,"date":"2017-04-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/volleyball-great-pens-first-book\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T07:00:00","slug":"volleyball-great-pens-first-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/volleyball-great-pens-first-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball great pens first book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kensington woman sports an impressive resume<\/strong><\/p>\n

Por Luc\u00eda Viti<\/p>\n

Former beach volleyball superstar Angela Rock has just added authorship to her long list of athletic and professional accomplishments.<\/p>\n

In her first book, \u201cAngela Rock\u2019s Advanced Beach Volleyball Tactics,\u201d the Kensington resident shares years of hard-earned experience in a guide book that covers beach volleyball from A to Z. Tactics are clearly defined with easy-to-follow references that cover every aspect of game.<\/p>\n

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Kensington resident authors her first book on volleyball. (Courtesy of Angela Rock)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Topics include choosing partners and coaches, warm-ups, serves that score, receiving and passing, skills and responsibilities, offensive tactics, effective blocking, defensive variations and strategic options.<\/p>\n

Rock\u2019s book underscores the differences between playing indoor and beach volleyball while sharing 30 years of accumulated knowledge and experience as a player and coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish I would\u2019ve known all that I\u2019ve learned when I was climbing the ranks,\u201d she said. \u201cI love the sport of beach volleyball. I hope to give readers an in-depth look from the perspective of my professional playing and coaching career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAngela discusses different philosophies, approaches and parts of the game that only someone with her playing and coaching experience can do,\u201d three-time Olympian Holly McPeak said in a testimonial review of the book. \u201cVery few people worldwide have the credibility and experience to coach\/play at the highest level like Angela does. Beach volleyball takes years to understand, but with this book, you get a crash course in everything and the learning curve is accelerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rock sports a lengthy and impressive volleyball resume. Her journey began in high school playing simply to \u201cbe with friends.\u201d Rock competed through two college final fours and spent five years on the U.S. Women\u2019s National Volleyball Team.<\/p>\n

Fourteen years as a beach volleyball professional led Rock into a world of athletic stardom. Internationally, Rock played on the U.S. National Team and participated in the 1986 Goodwill Games and the World Championships; the 1987 Pan American Games; and the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. The decorated Olympian was voted Team USA\u2019s most valuable player in 1985.<\/p>\n

Rock\u2019s coaching career followed suit. In 1996, beach volleyball became an Olympic sport during the Atlanta Games. Although Rock was not an official coach \u2014 beach volleyball coaches were not included as staff \u2014 Rock had access to beach volleyball team members Nancy Reno and McPeak.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe indoor teams added their coaches to the beach teams which did nothing to help them succeed,\u201d Rock explained. \u201cI was fortunate to have a credential that allowed me access to Nancy and Holly, something no other team had. The frustration of the indoor staff not providing any real assistance to the beach teams made me acutely aware of the need for specific information about beach volleyball. That was the moment this book was born.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, indoor and beach volleyball is separated at both the Olympic and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) levels.<\/p>\n

Rock stressed that many NCAA programs still \u201chave beach coaches with little or no experience in sand volleyball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rock\u2019s book also differentiates coaching techniques between indoor and beach volleyball.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an assumption that because you understand and coach indoors, you can coach on the beach, but they\u2019re completely different games,\u201d she said. \u201cMy book provides insight into the subtleties of coaching and playing beach volleyball at higher competitive levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rock added that she\u2019s included purposeful information gleaned from training other players.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of what I learned about strategy came from players that I coached, she said. \u201cFor that I am forever grateful and really wish I could have known as much when I was still playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rock\u2019s coaching career continues to this day. The former assistant coach at the University of California, Santa Barbara also served as head coach at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she garnered a record for Pacific West Conference wins. Coaching stints also include premier clubs in San Diego.<\/p>\n

Rock was inducted into the Beach Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2013.<\/p>\n

Currently, Rock is a professor of health and science and the head coach of beach volleyball at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. Rock will be teaching at Coronado\u2019s Crown Cove Aquatic Center through Southwestern College this summer.<\/p>\n

Rock concluded that her love for beach volleyball was the impetus for writing her book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fortunate to play beach volleyball for many years,\u201d she said, \u201cand that was my main motivation for writing this book. I wanted to get my thoughts on paper for future generations of coaches and players.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014P\u00f3ngase en contacto con Luc\u00eda Viti en luciaviti@roadrunner.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kensington woman sports an impressive resume By Lucia Viti Former beach volleyball superstar Angela Rock has just added authorship to her long list of athletic and professional accomplishments. In her first book, \u201cAngela Rock\u2019s Advanced Beach Volleyball Tactics,\u201d the Kensington resident shares years of hard-earned experience in a guide book that covers beach volleyball from […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":251419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Volleyball great pens first book","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}