make the volleyball team

As of right now I’m in the middle of tryouts with four days to go until we find out if we’ve officially made the team. I’m definitely not playing varsity, because they’ve finalized the team for varsity; but I’ll probably be on JV. At least, that’s what I’m hoping!

I am a complete procrastinator. It’s terrible. Looks like no Ooks for me, but with dedication to practice I might still have a chance. If I don’t make the team then maybe I could join a club team. That would be decent. But the chance to make new friends at my new school would be great, so that’s the real objective here.

I asked my mom about volleyball camp and she said that I would probably be able to go to a week long day camp which would really help me learn how to put my skills into play. I still need to keep practicing though. My mom played volleyball in highschool so she also said that she would help me practice some handy drills which would be perfect. I like that she’s really trying to help me even though he shoulder got pretty messed in that car accident two months ago. I love her a lot.

I’ve never been all that sporty, but I’m going into high school so I think it’s a good chance to break some stereotypes I’ve made over the years for myself. (eg:’I suck’) I’ve been practicing and I think it’s safe to say that I’ve improved. I’ll talk to my mom today about taking a class or going to a 3 day camp or something so I can put my skills into action. I have about a month and I think I could seriously make the junior team!

Our club season ended on Saturday, and I’m looking forward to tryouts on 8/15. I’m hoping to get in some practice time before then so I won’t be rusty.

I think doing club definitely helped though, and I’m feeling better about a position on the JV team.

We played really well today, winning 3/4 of the games. The last game was pretty difficult as we made it to the Gold division, which is the highest one comprising of the first six teams of our club, but we were seeded first and we played the 6th team; we lost, unfortunately and it was single elimination! Oh well, we had a couple of obstacles such as 3 people not being able to make the tournament.

Since 1/3 of our team didn’t show up, I played for the entire time which is pretty exciting. I’m starting to think that I shouldn’t be too worried about making JV next year, but I’m definitely still worried.

Club volleyball ends around 6/20 though, and volleyball tryouts are 8/15. I hope my skills last that long and I don’t get completely out of shape by then. I’m planning on practicing in the two month gap, as much as I can at least.

I was talking to a couple of people at the volleyball tournament yesterday, and they thought there was even the possibility of me making the varsity team next year.

I haven’t been playing that long, so I don’t think I’d be comfortable playing at the varsity level just right now. I know it would feel right playing on the JV team and I’d be happy with that. We’ll have to see how it goes at tryouts on August 15th!

I talked to one of the varsity players this year, and she thinks there’s about a 90% chance that I’ll make the team next year.

I suppose the only thing really, though, is to try my best now, practice, and do my best at tryouts which will be in August.

So far we’ve had two volleyball tournaments, and at the second one we got our jerseys. Apparently I’m #10, which was my third choice but that’s okay. I’m still pretty happy and they fit pretty well. They’re also not that bad looking.

The first tournament went horribly for us, but the second one did go a lot better, which is good. I’m thinking we’re improving.

I’m really bummed since club volleyball started but the practices currently coincide with Academic League matches. Since Academic League only goes until the end of this month with only 4 matches left, it’s really important for me to be at each one.

However, volleyball only has two practices per week, one on Tuesday and one on Thursday. I’m missing the Thursday practices since Academic League starts only 30 minutes later than each one and goes for at least an hour longer. It wouldn’t be worth it for me to go the first 30 minutes of volleyball because that’s just stretching.

I’m kind of upset about that, but so far Academic League is going well so I hope that I won’t be giving up 4 volleyball practices for nothing, as getting onto the volleyball team is a goal of mine.