As a member of the volleyball program at Grimsley we organize a charity volleyball game with our rival school every year. This years game was to raise money for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). ALS or the more common name, Lou Gehrig's disease affects the nerves in the brain as well as the spinal cord and it causes you to slowly lose movement throughout your body. When we were told this at the beginning of the season I had no idea what ALS was or what it stood for. As the day of the game approached we found out that one of the players of our rival schools father had the disease. As a player it made me realize how I am able to do something I love while help a great cause at the same time and how sometimes we can take for granted the things that we do naturally everyday that can not be done by people suffering with ALS. When I thought about the volleyball player who's dad is suffering from ALS it made me see her as a young lady who has to watch her dad suffer through this debilitating disease and not as a rival.