Beach volleyball

To understand me you must understand my passion for volleyball. The last eight years of my life have been filled with training in what I would consider to be the best sport. I played at the varsity level all four years for my high school career and the school off-season was filled with club volleyball. My passion for this sport has left me with many bruises, a few concussions and hundreds of great memories! I love the rush of a win and I cry with each defeat but as in life, every loss is a…

decide whether we want to be athletes, be in the band, or just enjoy school and just enjoy being free. As a child I chose to play sports, and not just any kind of sport, I chose to play volleyball. Volleyball is such a demanding sport physically and mentally and no matter what age level you play up to. Of course volleyball was not the only sport I played but it was the only one that made me look forward to practice every day. For example, I also played basketball until my senior year of high…

Allyson Felix is an American track and field sprinter, who she competes in in the 100 meters, 200 meters, and the 400 meters. She was athletically gifted from a young age and began playing basketball. Felix earned the nickname “Chicken Legs” for her scrawny physique. She decided to go for the track team freshmen year to prove her physical strength. She excelled from the beginning, finishing seventh in the 200-meter dash at the CIF California State Meet, within a year. She eventually became a…

Even as a little fifth grader, new to volleyball, at the height of 4’10, I grew a love for setting and trained for it as often as I could. For my first two years of playing I never was on an actual team, but anytime I got to work in the gym I would automatically want to be setting. Once I entered seventh grade and middle school ball started I strived even harder to get the spot as setter, but for it being my first year I was okay with not being chosen as a setter. Once my eighth grade season…

me had; whether it was basketball, cheerleading, or track - they had found a purpose that drove them. I did not have anything that I was truly passionate about but when I began playing volleyball, I discovered it and I fell in love with the intensity that came when I touched a volleyball. The first year of volleyball was rough, I enjoyed the adrenaline that flooded my body when the seconds turned into minutes which slowly turned into…

Think I’ll Pass I always told myself that I hated it, the cheering on the court, the uniforms of tight spandex, and even the concept of the game. However, in the spring of 2016, I tried something new and began to love it from the very beginning. Volleyball isn’t just a sport of passing a ball over a net, or a competitive version of don’t let the ball touch the ground. It is surpassing obstacles and adversity, making new friends and growing closer to teammates, and meeting new coaches that seek…

On Tuesday, September 9th, the Northeast varsity volleyball team faced the West Liberty Comets. It was a big game to look forward to because West Liberty was a ranked team and extremely virtuous. I still remember the nervous feeling I had before the start of the game until the first ball was served. The score of the first match ended up being 22-25, with West Liberty taking the win. The following two matches weren’t as close as the first one and West Liberty ended up beating us in the three…

with a stretch. Game day had arrived, and as a team, we were all ready to go out and kill it. We had already gotten dressed in our new uniforms, stretched, and finished warming up our legs in the Pequot Lakes High School hallway. Pequot had a great volleyball program, along with some great players, so we knew that the match against them would be a tough one. We all gathered in the locker room with the coaches, and the starters names were already written on the whiteboard: Hiltner, Borders,…

fortitude involved when competing. I am also a very competitive person, and the sports I played provided me another outlet for my competitive spirit. But it wasn’t until seventh grade that I found the sport that I fell in love with. Since I joined volleyball two years after most of my peers, I was put on the “B-team.” I was determined to work as hard as I could to make the “A-team” the next year. Unfortunately, my hard work did not lead to immediate…

Bad decisions, makes the best stories. Truitt Odom One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as a adventure. ~ William Feather. It was summer, one month after my 17th birthday, and, even though I had a lot of great adventures with the people I loved, I still wasn 't satisfied. So I took of work, grabbed my two best friends, Trey and Parker, and we set out on nonstop adventure for 3 days, which led to a Whataburger bill of over $100, running…