blog#7- free write

The thing that happened to me in high school that pretty much changed my life was,

When I was 6 years old I started playing volleyball. I started on a developmental team to learn the fundamental skills then I became dedicated and committed to play club volleyball and school ball this was a year round sport. To do something repeatedly you have to actually love that certain thing and I loved volleyball it was my hobby. Playing volleyball taught me how to understand the real meaning of a team player not just playing for yourself, a good attitude, and being coachable.

My Freshman and Sophomore year of high school I played year round ball. I was a member of my select team and my high school team. While high school season was over we went into off season where we trained to help us get stronger and quicker for the next prior. This is when club volleyball starts, with this being said I barley had any free time or a social life. I had practice Monday through Thursday on the weekdays then on Friday after school I would head out of town for whatever tournament I had that weekend. This was a major factor of helping me balance my time management with my homework and studies knowing that I didn’t have a lot of time to complete my work.

  Volleyball got to be very stressful knowing that I had to start applying for colleges and my grades didn’t stand where I would have liked them to. This is where I had to make a huge decision in my life. I quit club and school ball at the end of my sophomore year club season. Also, I had decided whether or not I want continue my future and play college volleyball or not. It was tough for me knowing that I played this sport for 10 years and I loved the game but, playing year round definitely puts so much pressure on you doing the same thing every day it just got old. The more competitive it got the more it became a job to me because I would want to be the best athlete I could so would do private lessons before every practice to help me reach my goal. But like rowe said “This is where many people face confusion in life and don’t know what the best path is for them and leads to fear.” With that quote my whole junior and senior year  that was the only thing on my mind wondering if I should have stayed with the sport or did I do the right thing. In conclusion, this was a major decision on my life quitting volleyball knowing I could have had an experience playing college ball and could have lead me to great things in life. By quitting volleyball, I had time to focus on my studies and to get my gpa and class rank up for college and it gave me a social life on the other hand when I played volleyball I felt like I had no freedom it was just volleyball day after day.