Three-Lane Serve Receive
Three passers protect their lanes and apply short-right, deep-left to both seams.
Quick look
18 minutes 5–16 playersBeginner · Intermediate
Family: Serve receive and seams Choose up to three drills, then let the builder complete and time your practice.
What players are learning
Build a simple three-player serve-receive shape with one repeatable seam rule.
Set it up
- Mark left, middle, and right passing lanes with cones.
- Place a target near the setter position.
Run the drill
- Identify the left and right passer for each of the two seams.
- Servers send six balls across the lanes, including obvious short and deep seam balls.
- For either seam, the passer on the right takes short and the passer on the left takes deep.
- Passers call early, send the ball to the target, and recover to base after contact.
- Rotate one new passer in after each six-ball round.
What to say
- See the server before adjusting.
- Short to the right; deep to the left.
- The call confirms the responsibility.
- Pass high enough for the team to organize.
Make it harder
- Begin with servers announcing short or deep.
- Remove the announcement and vary the serve.
- Play the rally live after every pass.
See the setup
Where everyone starts
Passers share the court in lanes and send every playable ball toward the target.