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12/9/2014

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Another example of facing adversity was playing our lovely rival Pinecrest. Playing against pinecrest isn’t always fun. We never thought we could beat them and turns out this year we owned them.

In the past years it has been the struggle. Either they have good defenders or a good offense. And even there’s some years where there’s no telling how the game is going to go.

But this year was totally different. Cause we didn’t care. We knew that if we just played our game no team could stop us. Meaning everyone had to be on. Our back row with passing and digging the hard balls and our offense getting good balls to be set and put away.

Also that we have positive vibes. See we aren’t a negative team, but it’s that we have so many competitive spirits that when either of us aren’t feeling what’s going on the team can feel it. Not to mention it’s like that because we have some people on the team that are just doing this for fun it makes it even harder when you need them to be just as compassionate as you.

That’s most definitely when the caliber level comes in. I say this because there’s a range of our caliber level. It’s not totally obvious, but when we have to all play at the same level it’s sometimes a bit of a task.

ANother way that we have to play our game is through patience as well. Sometimes our adrenalin is running too much that when we play we end up having unforced errors and getting ourselves down. Or when we are doing fine and get down a point or two and think that we need to make this impressive play by hitting the ball as hard as we can.

When all we need to do is just calm down and control the ball and the game the way we were taught to. Most of the times we attack the ball and it’s just us hitting the ball hard with really no control. Now sometimes coaches like that, but it’s mainly better when a coach has a player that knows how to put the ball in specific.

We actually have those type of players too. One of them is our star freshmen Sarah J. She’s 6’2 and plays like every inch of it. She’s possibly our most complete player. Then there’s our other star outside hitter Kaitlin. She’s almost a complete player she has slight moments, but if you catch her when she’s hot she’s a train that can’t be stopped.

Lastly if you enjoyed this blog please feel free to comment in the comment box below! I’d seriously love to have your feedback on anything even if it’s about my team. Thank you for your valuable time! (:
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Facing adversity

11/7/2014

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"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."
- Muhammad Ali


This year was a tough, but solid year. We overcame a lot of adversity and grew stronger through all of it. For starters our very first tournament of the 2014 season. We went 3-1, which is pretty solid coming from that we played schools in a much higher classification than us.

As an example last year we played a team that beat us single handed last year. I mean sorry to speak the truth, but we had absolutely no chance with the type of players they had and this year we saw what they do and we figured out a way to face adversity to their players to be able to defeat them. It honestly was awesome beating them exactly like how they beat us.

Another example is the game we seriously had to face adversity! It was a tough game and sad to say we lost, but in my mind I know we could have played so much better. Anyways, the game started out slightly rough; we watched them in warm-ups and we honestly weren't that impressed. And everyone knows how that goes. When you see a team that doesn't look that skillful our first thing is...to let our guard down. Even though we really should have left it up.

The first match against them was rough we ended up losing which meant the next game was “fight night”, we were determined that we weren't going down without a fight. And that’s exactly what we did. We fought our way into a tie breaker match! We thought this is it we got them where we want them which meant we got nothing to do, but play good volleyball (which we thought wouldn't be very hard for us).

Well we ended up falling short to them, but we were in it til’ the end! It was frustrating, but coming back from letting our guard down and having to fight was seriously a good growing point for us. We never had to do that before (partially because we've only played two games together).

But also it enabled us to having to find ways to be successful. Not to mention figuring out each others strengths and weaknesses and seeing what we need to work on. It may have seemed like a negative (even though it added a loss to our record) it actually helped us have to figure how to face adversity. Without it we wouldn't have been the team we are.

If you enjoyed reading about us having to face adversity feel free to leave a comment in the comment box below. Or even share your story! I’d love to read about it! Be sure to include your name and if you have a blog as well.
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