Volleyball 2014

Summer volleyball workouts are over and it’s time for tryouts! Most of the volleyball players from last year are returning to tryout and several new players as well. As a player for the past three years I feel pretty sure I’ll make the varsity team again this year. But as the coach says “no one is guaranteed a spot”.

I thought we would have 2 days of tryouts and then the first team cut followed by another day of tryouts and then the second team cut but the new coach for this year continues to add tryout days. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

Yeaah! I made the varsity volleyball team. Most of the ladies from last year made the team with a few exceptions. A couple of our former teammates were cut from the team. Not really sure why one of them was cut since she was a good player.  Who knows what the coach was thinking. Now that we have our team we have to get ready for an upcoming scrimmage with one our rival schools.

The volleyball season seems to be going okay except for some of the rules and ideas that the coach has put in place. As l mentioned in an earlier entry the coach this year is new. He’s not new to volleyball since he has coached many years as a club volleyball coach but he is new to coaching at a public high school. His rules may work for his “club” team but they seem to be causing a lot of drama on our high school team.

In spite of all the drama, Grimsley has a very good varsity volleyball team. We played against some teams who were very easy which is not always the best as far as keeping our team focused and challenged. Our tougher opponents make us dig deep and put forth an effort that displays all our volleyball skills.