With only around 3 weeks left until SAISA volleyball starts, everyone in the team is improving their skills and learning how to work together as a team. We practice three times a week, and every Friday we play a game against another volleyball team outside of school. Looking back at the first week of training, I can say that each and every one of us in the team has improved one way or another. Weather is was to do an overhand serve, or learn how to hit a ball, each and every one of us has been working very hard. For me, I have finally learnt how to do an overhand serve, and I did use it for the first time in a game last week. We have also been doing a lot of games with local schools before going to SAISA, which I think is very beneficial because it gets us used to the pressure of an actual game. We can also see how much we have improved through the games, where we lost all three sets in the first two games. But after lots of practice, determination and fixing our mistakes, we were able to win our first game (3 out of 4 sets!!) during our third game!!! This was an amazing point for our team, where we all communicated amazingly, moved for the ball, blocking and transitioning from offensive to defensive and vice versa (and most importantly we stayed calm and did not scramble) . But, looking towards SAISA, I feel like the what our team could work on would be our serve receives, which are usually what makes us lose points because we are not moving quickly enough.

I’m very excited to play with this amazing team at SAISA, and I know we will do very well (top 3!!🏆) Everyone has been working very hard, and this team will definitely go far this year 🙂