volleyball

I live for volleyball, theres no feeling in the world that compares to the rush I get when I take those first few steps onto the court.
Or when you give everything you have and you lay it all out on the court, nothing compares to that kind of rush.
Winning isnt everything though, growing as a team and giving everything you have to work together and push for points is what counts, it's truly what makes you individually and as a team stronger.
When one falls we together pick each other up, and what our mistakes were suddenly become lessons, and stepping stones for us to become stronger. Together.
A lot of the bobcats, my teammates have been playing together for 7 years. And together we have grown and honestly playing volleyball has not only made me stronger as an individual but it has taught me about how no matter what you have to push for points, and you have to lay everything out on the court and just give it your all, you have to push in life, you can't just stand and wait for something to come your way, you cant just stand on the court and watch the ball drop. It's your time.

I can't fully express what the feeling is exactly when I play volleyball, but honestly, it's like nothing else in the world matters in that moment, Win or lose, together we fight, and we learn and we grow. And the whole idea of a team means so much to me. I'm going to miss playing with these girls, because I've played with them for so long, it won't be the same without them.

Tonight the bobcat's played a swossa game, and everything we practiced and learned during our season came out onto the court tonight. Even though we didn't come home with the Swossa title, we came home with memories of playing our game, volleyball and not giving up.
The first game, with little knowledge about the other team, only playing them once in grade 10 for swossa and winning. We pushed and we played the game volleyball like we have never before. The first game was close, but lajeunesse lead with one win, 25 to 21. We did'nt let them decide there that they would win the next game, instead we faught. We won the second game 25 to 20. unfortunately in the third game we fell short by two and lajeunesse won 26 to 24. Realizing that they had 2 wins and we had 1, we still faught like hell on the court and we still pushed to the end, it was too close, lajeunesse ended the game with a 25 to 23 win.

Though we did not win to advance to offsaa we played volleyball, and thats what really matters.
I will never forget this night, and all the girls on this years 2010-2011 volleyball team.
It has been an amazing season.

Though we lost swossa we are travelling to florida this march break for a volleyball tourniment which i am really excited about! I can't wait.

Good season bobcats!

I'm tired of being who everyone else wants me to be, instead of the person I want to be.