As I was making practice plans today for the team I coach team, I got to thinking about my team I coached last year, which as I have mentioned before, is a completely different team. I saw a few of my girls last week where cincy classics practices and they all said how much they missed me. I miss them a lot too. I also ran into some of their parents and they had mentioned how, "it's just not going to be the same this year." As a coach this really means a lot. It just shows me that I had made a positive influence on these girls and even their parents.
Last year was my first year coaching all by myself with a J.O. (junior olympic) team. It was scary and intimidating at first, not going to lie. Then I realized if I just be myself and instill in these girls everything I have learned I will be just fine. So that's what I did, and the group of girls I had were great and they made me laugh all the time. There was never a dull moment. There were also a couple rough patches last year, only because i had some girls who played multiple sports and there were always conflicts and sometime we would only have 3-5 girls at a practice. One practice we even had 2! As the season proceeded, I had the opprotunity to notice how much better they had gotten and how they have evolved as a volleyball player. They had gotten stronger, smarter, and just flat out better.
I had the opprotunity to see how they had grown as a player the other night as i watched their practice, and i got a little emotional because I miss them so much!
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