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CSC live webinars are free to attend in 2023-24 with advance registration required. Visit
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On-Demand Webinar
Working with volleyball stats & stat rules
Learning about the sport of volleyball and producing accurate statistics.
Original date: Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023
Generating consistent statistics and consistent stat reporting are essential duties of each athletic communications department. From our 2023-24 CSC Statistics and Stat Rules Webinar Series, this webinar, with five leading pro and college volleyball statisticians, featured a discussion and insights on:
- college volleyball rules and how to score them correctly
- best practices for pregame preparation for statistics, setting up stat personnel, and post-game reporting; working with your opponents’ athletic communications volleyball contact(s)
- the use of proper in-game volleyball scoring techniques to register accurate statistics, including: entering starters; what sources to use if unsure about a play; recording basic statistics
- a review of the hand signals that volleyball officials use to determine a play and also how they signal player numbers/substitutions
- discussion of difficult/unusual plays, ways to troubleshoot them and the way to accurate stat them during the game
- best practices and communications in editing game files and working with your fellow SIDs post-match
Panelists
- Mindy Brauer – MIT Assistant Director of DAPER Communications, Promotions, and Marketing
- Diane Nordstrom – University of Wisconsin Associate Director of Brand Communication / CSC Hall of Famer and CSC Professional Development and Education Committee member
- Joe Reinsch – Pacific West Conference Assistant Commissioner
- Shane White – Professional Association of Volleyball Officials (PAVO) & USA Volleyball official and national volleyball statistician
- Moderator: Mark Albanese, Pacific Lutheran Director of Sports Communication / CSC Professional Development and Education Committee member
Other resources and statistical training materials:
From CSC 360 September issue: Accurate statistics are important; resources are available
- For sports that utilize NCAA LiveStats (football, soccer, volleyball and ice hockey), the NCAA Manager is a terrific resource filled with training videos and a FAQ page for each sport.
- Live training webinars for fall sports have passed, but recordings of the sessions remain available online.
- Be sure to sign up for the NCAA LiveStats newsletter to receive product updates and register for upcoming webinars.
- On game day, if you incur any issues, contact NCAA LiveStats help desk at (877) 542-7282 or email NCAASupport@geniussports.com. We encourage you to CC the corresponding NCAA staff member (more on that below!) so that we are aware of the issue.
For those in the NAIA utilizing Presto Sports statistics software:
YouTube Presto Training Playlist
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