Volleyball Season 2012

Another season has come and gone.  I had a really great season. It was a hard season, but a great season. This year changed a lot because the 8th grade coach that I worked with in the past retired...aka...had a baby, so a new coach was hired. I wasted the whole first half of the season by being frustrated with my co-worker thinking that everything that she was doing was wrong, then I had an epiphany, she's not the problem, I AM!

 

She wasn't doing things wrong, she was doing things different, and just because it is different doesn't mean that it is bad. So, I sucked up my pride, spilled my guts about how I was feeling, apologized , and began to learn from Laura. She is inspiring and very very good at coaching! I missed out.

 

So anyways, I had the 7th grade team and they were very green. Typically, here in Shelley, the girls start in 5th grade and so they know all the basics by the time I get them but this year I had a few girls make the team who had never ever played before. They just worked really hard and showed alot of promise, so it was a year of learning by girls and coach.

 

Right here I am telling the girl smiling that I know she can get her serve over if she just wouldn't start freaking out about stepping on the line. She has a great serve, she just looses her confidence sometimes...silly girl.

 Our last cheer of the season, go Lady Russets!

 Sometimes I will overhear the other coaches and think that they are super mean and a little too intense for 7th graders. So I always wonder, Do I come across that way and I just don't know it. I ask my Mom-in-law and Sis-in-law, who came to watch me coach, if I seemed that way and luckily, they both responded that I seem to be more encouraging and semi-stressed but not mean. Phew!

 I was explaining that if you get a serve that comes high and fast that a set off the serve is your best option verses tomahawking it....less control as to where the ball will go. (Any friend who knows more: Dess, Mags, anybody, feel free to correct me on this. ) 

 My fans: Libby, Alexis, Lainey, Kenzie, and Eli

We do have to bribe them with candy to sit still and actually watch my game but nevertheless, I love having people there for me even though I am not playing.

 But they can handle only so much before they start going crazy and Jared has to take them home.

 This picture is skewed but Grandpa Jerry is entertaining Eli at the game with his phone.

 And when the kids completely stop watching the game and start climbing all over the benches, you know it is time to head home.

This season was very challenging but I wouldn't trade it! I think I grew alot this year and hope that my newly gained coaching skills from this year along with all that I have learned from my previous mentor, Pam, will enable me to help the girls that I have in the future!