Since the start of the volleyball season, our team has been hard at work, training 4 times a week, with games every friday. The process overall was challenging from start to finish, first learning to perfect our individual skill and then learning how to play as a team. For me, I came into the season with terrible spiking form and a rusty serve, and at the end of the season my spiking sometimes goes in, and my serve is decent, in addition to the countless other things Ive learned, from quicks to slides, to blocking technique and back row spiking, in every sense of the game, Ive improved exponetially.

As an activity, volleyball isent the most physical or tiring sport. But its arguably one of the most skill dependent sports. Technique is everything. And if we keep this in mind, we went from losing to good teams to drawing against great teams over the course of the season which really highlights this improvment in skill that our team has went through.

The tournament that we came second in is a testament to this. It took place around 3 weeks ago, in september (I think). We played several teams that we had prior experince with during our weekly games but this time the tournament conditions provoked an urge to play better, so we did, and beat teams that we had gotten destroyed by previously.

As a whole, the volleyball season was a great experience, and definetly resulted in my growing as a player and more importantly as a learner, through the various methods we were trained in.

As for goals, I want to play conistently in SAISA, and hit good spikes and well placed tips. I also aim to work on my timing and jumping form in particular to get maximum power in my spikes and height in my blocks. As a team member I aim to be encouraging and keep spirits high, setting an example for other teams to follow.