[Tin Cup]

Yes and no...if a player is good enough to do both--hit and sit--they wouldn't be confused--IMO. They would look forward to each challenge especially when they get to set off the back row with more touches. If your in a 6-2 all you have to do is play your setters opposite. 5-1 you would just have two hitters when setter is on front row--three rotations then the setter is coming off the backrow. This is what Belfry ran last year. Confusion sometimes happens when sliding your setter to home base and back to the 1 position to protect her. This goes back to practice and team movement. Good teams flow in and out of this very easy. You make an excellent point on the college level, however 6ft setters are hard to find many times they are moved to setters once there. High school everyone takes a tall player and tries to develop them into hitters with the smaller girls being left to set. Your blocking q...anyone who can get up over the net needs to learn the art of blocking either soft, swing or extention blocking before hitting. This is where young tall players can make the biggest team contribution early in their careers. Much like Conley--Thacker did as 8th & 9th graders and now Hamilton, McCoy, Little, Ray and Hamilton.

Smaller players the ones who can pass the ball have a tremendous opportunity now on the NAIA level--Unlimited subs.

Wrong name for Betsy Layne...should have said Ray and Watkins