Volleyball is a wonderful sport. Some may say it's just a more intense version of "don't let the balloon hit the floor" (they aren't technically wrong) but it's more than that. Volleyball players know the ins and outs of the game, as well as what comes along with playing it. Here are just 12 things we know all too well.
1. The awful smell your kneepads emit
Your kneepads actually smell like death.
2. That feeling of getting a great hit
Getting a great hit it a feeling by itself, but when your team cheers and celebrates with you that feeling magnifies by 100.
3. When your face gets personally victimized by a hitter
Every player has gotten to privilege of getting hit in the face. Although some are super funny, others leave you traumatized for life.
4. When you're up to serve in a really close game
It's honestly the most stressful thing to be up to serve on game point, you can actually feel your coach's stare burn into your skin.
5. Your face when you get a great dig but your team doesn't get it over
I flopped and rolled onto the floor for you and this is how you repay me?
6. You and your teammates in the locker room after you win
Post-win locker room celebrations are always the best. Everyone is so pumped and relaying the game and it's one of the best feelings in the world to share with your teammates.
7. The look you give your coach when you make a mistake
*Puppy dog eyes*
8. You can never do anything because you always have volleyball
Being a volleyball player and having a thriving social life are two things you simply cannot possess at the same time.
9. When people ask what the libero does
"Why are they in a different colored jersey?"
10. Those time when you were in the net and the ref didn't catch it
Then you try to play it off cool like nothing ever happened.
11. When people say volleyball is easy
They are but mere ignorant peasants.
12. The immense love you feel towards your team and volleyball itself
When it all comes down to it, you love the sport and your team even with all the struggles that come along with it.
