High School Volleyball Research Paper

Swinging the door open, I press my sweaty palms against my jeans and nervously walk to the front desk. “I’m here to pick up my results,” I choke out. The woman behind the desk asks for my name, and I give it to her. She hands me a thin stack of papers, still warm from being printed. Leaning towards me she whispers, “You know, you can come back and retake the math segment in thirty days if you want to, sweetie.” Glancing at the college placement scores in my hand, I realize why she says this. I didn’t just fail the math segment, I had bombed it. Mortified, I politely thank her and hurriedly walk to the exit while mentally chastising …show more content…
As the actress Helen Hayes once so eloquently said, “If you rest, you rust;” an incredibly simple but true statement meaning that laziness can often deteriorate an ability, a reality I was currently …show more content…
It was a sport I had never played nor did I know much about. However, after many long, strenuous afternoon practices, I became moderately good at it; occasionally even doing as well as the girls that had much more training and experience in the sport than I. Midway through the season, though, I caught a horrible case of the stomach bug and missed practice for almost three weeks. When I came back, I was surprised at how quickly I had forgotten how to perform drills and certain plays. My once powerful serve had diminished into an uncertain, klutzy pass, and my previously impressive blocks were now nothing but awkward jumps in the wrong direction. I was completely humiliated, and it took me several weeks to progress into an adequate player