Personal Narrative: The New Volleyball Team

The term passionate refers to any powerful or compelling feeling as to love or hate. Many Americans become passionate with one another, food, and also hobbies. I for one became passionate with volleyball. In fact, it is one of the top dangerous sports. I managed to make it through numerous of years with a few sprained and jammed fingers which were surprising. I became passionate when I was recognized by a high school coach at something I thought I was doing inadequately at. Meanwhile, over the time I have developed and was awarded the MVP award. In 2009 at West Middle School, I was in the eighth grade and heard that the school was having tryouts for the new volleyball team. Although I didn’t care too much about it, but my cousin Shantel and Laterria thought it would be fun to try out. I was a rookie at the game when I first began I would constantly foul balls and double hit. Once I began to get better I became the setter of the West Warriors which is much like the quarterback in football. As the setter, I get to decide who will be better at acing the ball. An ace in volleyball is when an attacker strikes the ball, earning the team a point. As I got the hang of the things I was recognized by Jerry Tersei who was the coach of Auburn High School Girls Varsity volleyball team. I joined the Auburn volleyball camp for the first two years of high school. The camp was extremely intense and crowded. Coach Tersei made us do stadiums when we first came to camp to determine the weak and the strong. We also ran the mile which could be no more than ten minutes, which was extremely hard for me because I wasn’t much of a runner. We would also work on determining which position would fit us based our capabilities. Since I was put in a group with setters we would face the wall and do numerous wall sets around 500 every day. The setters were also isolated from the others which I did not like because they had a variety of activities that they were able to work on. At the end of every practice lower classman would scrimmage against the upperclassmen. The scrimmage would help us get a feel on how tough the other teams could be during actually an actual game. During the ninth grade, Laterria and I tried out for the volleyball team. It was a mixture of feelings for me because I was excited that I made the freshman volleyball team, but also sad that she did not make the team. My two positions were setter and defense. The setter has the major goal as I said before. However, you will have to manage to set or bump the ball to any of the hitters no matter where you are at on the floor. Although the defense is more laid back it is not as critical. …show more content…
I would switch from defense to attacker during the game. I also stepped down from being a setter because it was stressful for me. It was like a chicken running around with your head chopped off. The overall senior year was the best year of all time. It was a long journey, but having the same teammate’s made it much easier because there was already a connection among us. We helped each other progress as the years moved on. At the end of the season, it was a bittersweet moment because everyone was going to different colleges to play volley. Once the season was over we had a ceremony to celebrate our accomplishments. I received the M.V.P. award because of my hard work and dedication I made towards myself and others. All I could say in my speech was “the sprained fingers were well worth it”. Through my years of volleyball, I’ve learned that everything you manage to do always starts with a trial and error. My error was going through a sport not knowing how to comprehend the concept of the game. As we all know that once you keep going through that trial it will no longer be an error it will become a progression. If you follow the basic steps and techniques you will enhance and continue to develop and become better in a matter of