A clear coaching blueprint for repeat titles, built around setters, standards, and culture.
Austin Dyer traces the habits behind a rare run of four straight Canadian CCAA national championships and frames them as more than a winning streak.

Brian Singh
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The Volleyball By Design podcast gives you simple, actionable, step by step strategies so you can get clarity in your training and apply what you learn right away.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A volleyball coaching show that turns setters, signals, culture, and practice standards into usable court-level thinking.
The Volleyball By Design Podcast belongs in the Sports hub as a true coach's-room show. It is about volleyball instruction, not score reaction.
You came for volleyball tips; you are leaving with setter homework and a louder clipboard.
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A clear coaching blueprint for repeat titles, built around setters, standards, and culture.
Austin Dyer traces the habits behind a rare run of four straight Canadian CCAA national championships and frames them as more than a winning streak.
A setter lesson that makes the pressure feel real.
This episode looks back at Brian Singh's 2020 conversation with Micah Ma'a and keeps the focus on what setting asks for: clean touches, steady pressure, and accountability.
Practical coaching talk on measuring serve and attack speed with affordable radar tools.
The episode treats player development as a measurable system, using metrics, performance indicators, and cue reading to track progress and shape coaching decisions.
Transition is treated as a possession battle, with practical decisions for free balls, setter-out situations, and blocker movement.
Brian Singh keeps the focus on transition, and that works. He returns to the idea that roughly 53% of a team's offense comes from transition, then uses it to push a plain coaching question: how often is it actually trained?




Coach-to-coach volleyball talk that stays specific
Coach Brian Singh says 90% of the gyms he visits do not hold athletes to a high standard of excellence, and he links that gap to player development and match results.
This episode focuses on must-have technology for modern volleyball coaches, covering apps like Solo Stats Touch and iStat V-Ball 3 for tracking performance, tools like radar guns for measuring serving speed, and video breakdown software such as Quick Cut for efficient game analysis.
Austin Dyer sits down to talk through four straight national championships in Canada.
Coach Brian Singh uses Episode 83 of the Volleyball by Design podcast to revisit a 2021 lesson on hand signals and verbal cues after coaches asked for it again.
The Volleyball by Design Podcast episode 282, 'How The Best Volleyball Coaches Build Culture,' is Brian Singh's roundup of culture systems pulled from past interviews.
["Brian Singh defines a reverse sweep as a best-of-five comeback from 0-2 to 3-2 and treats it as the kind of loss coaches dread.", "He says the first response is emotional regulation, then a tactical shift, because set three is psychological warfare and the first eight points swing belief and pressure.", "Singh uses a USA-France TJ DeFalco switch, a Humber-St.
Coach Brian Singh explains the importance of transition in volleyball, where 53% of offense occurs, covering types like free ball and overpass transition, with strategies for coaching and practice.
Host Brian Singh interviews professional setter Micah Maha, diving deep into the art of setting, covering technical aspects like fast hands and footwork, psychological pressures, and decision-making.
Interview with University of Alberta head coach Carolyn O'Dwyer about winning the national championship, covering offensive weapons, practice standards, and training drills.
Coach Brian Singh shares common paths that top volleyball coaches have taken to advance their careers.
Coach Brian Singh discusses how to improve players' volleyball IQ and game understanding.
Coach Brian Singh shares his experience creating a competitive volleyball league in Canada, covering planning, rules, and structure.
Coach Brian Singh discusses tactical approaches to serve-receive in volleyball, focusing on setup and passing strategies.
Coach Brian Singh provides a step-by-step guide for training inexperienced volleyball players to compete with experienced ones.
Coach Brian Singh explains the differences between passing float serves and spin serves, and how to train athletes for both.
Coach Brian Singh explains how to design and implement offensive systems in volleyball, from basic to advanced levels.
Coach Brian Singh provides a blueprint for structuring volleyball training to teach skills effectively across different levels.
A volleyball coach interviews a top Canadian player about his success and the programs that developed him.