Game of skill

As the final home volleyball game draws near, senior outside hitter Kiera James’ volleyball career will live on with her division one level commitment to play at Southern Illinois University. James’ four years on DGS varsity volleyball and participation in First Alliance Club Volleyball have led to her recruitment to play volleyball at the D1 level. With 226 kills, 48 aces and 171 digs during just this DGS volleyball season, James has some of the best statistics on the team. As a captain,…

Every Arcadia sports team is working hard this season to perfect their skills, especially the Girls Volleyball team. The Girls Volleyball team have been practicing non-stop to continue their undefeated record from last year. Every single player has been individually working hard to improve their skills, while working together to win games. Senior Ava Liu, who plays an outsider for the Girls Varsity Volleyball team, is hopeful about going to the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) with…

the position of the ball. This sort of technology is already being used in other sports like cricket. In the article written for the English publication called “Goal-line technology: Is it time ?” the author Wilson believes that such high profile games that have a huge financial impact on teams should be based on a fact rather than the opinions of a referee and linesman (Wilson,…

and games. If you don't have any self-confidence that you can play a good game, you won't ever. Doing some basic drills like layups will get your mind diverted to Basketball. Don't play around or you will lose your focus and mess up. This also gets your mind set that you can do it and achieve your goal. If you just want to play basketball for fun and not actually spend time practicing it, I suggest that you don't try out because you will never be mentally focused, During practices and games, be…

being yelled at or just talked to. Once a coach figures that out it will get the most out a player leading to success. High basketball IQ requires technical skills, attention, game awareness, and experience. A player having good technical skills allows them to have more confidence, which overall allows them to focus on other parts of the game. With their attention on the…

In lieu of letting the new players struggle with learning technical skills, I and a few other veteran team members taught the new players the fundamentals of soccer. Through weeks of training and weekend practices we all began to see growth in our new team. From this moment I knew my hard work was beginning to pay off. We endured many discouraging losses from the first few games; which turned a lot of heads in my direction. But we slowly bonded as a team and learned how to…

in hitting Square stance with knees bend and rear elbow down, watch the ball, stride when you hit, hold the bat correctly, follow through 1 point Almost never demonstrates competency in skill (doesn’t know how to hold the bat correctly, no stride, etc.) 2 points Rarely demonstrates competency in skill technique. (stands correctly, doesn’t hold bat correctly, doesn’t follow through…

requires great focus and good skills in order to succeed on the field. For you to have decent skills in this sport you need two things. One, you need to practice rigorously. Second, you must have the best possible golf equipment available to you. Having the best golf clubs and equipment does not really mean it will make you into the best golf player, but having the best equipment will certainly help your game. Sub standard or outdated equipment can affect your skills and your total performance.…

based off of teamwork and trusting your teammates. While playing you need to add apart to your game that is all in your head, the mental aspect of volleyball is extremely important. Being mentally strong can make or break you, you need to be able to not only outperform your opponent but also out think them. In any sport you need to have a good work ethic, but in volleyball it is vital, during long games you need to be able to compete just as good as you did in the beginning. Having a great work…

It was my first year at cornerstone and I was good friends with Matthew and Taylor. Cornerstone was having a three on three basketball tournament and we all had one thing in common,We all had insanely amazing basketball skills. We knew immediately that this was an opportunity that we could never pass up. But, we all decided together that we needed to spend most of our time thinking about our name and picking what we were going to wear. We settled on the mets as our name because the Mets were an…