We never know when something good is going to come into our life. Sometimes it never looks like it could be good, but then it surprises you and it feels amazing. There are beautiful things that come and go in our lives and we have to accept them, and let them in. This beautiful thing in my life is my volleyball team.
Coming into the season this year we were known as the true underdogs to everyone, after last year when we lost a very important member of our team due to injury and it hit us hard. But we made up for it over our spring season and over the summer. We put in countless hours in the gym; making us stronger, faster and better than we were before. We saw all of this pay off when we started off the season strong with a 6-0 winning streak against some teams that we tumbled to last year. And it was a shock to everyone. It was exciting for us and then we started to get a little comfortable with where were at. Because not too long after we started to spin our selves out of control and we lost our sense of the game. We were struggling to keep thing together and were putting in so many hours of practice yet nothing just seemed to work sometimes.
Sure we managed to start pulling off some wins after we struggled a bit, but nothing like it was at the beginning. This even carried over into when we started playing teams in our conference. Then one day, things clicked. We started to realize that we can't let the other teams make the mistakes and just wait for all of that to happen, we have to get it together and play volleyball or else everything we have worked for was for nothing. The month of October hit and we finally said enough is enough. And things were looking up for us because we realized that this is not who Spalding volleyball really is all about.
We started to become like one again, things were clicking on and off the court. We were putting in the hours and they were paying off once again; we felt whole again. Since that day we had our true "come to Jesus moment" we have been putting in a ton of work and it has finally all payed off. We've shown people to never look at us like we are the underdogs and that anything can happen when you play us, because we will do anything to win and get the one thing that we all want the most. The conference championship.
But now, we are coming to the end of October and that means that we are just that much closer to conference than we all thought. It's exciting and scary because none of us want it to end. This beautiful thing that we have is heart. We play like it's the last one we will get to. We play for each other and with each other, because we are a family. We will out work anybody just to achieve greatness. We started off strong together and we will finish strong together. My beautiful thing is my team, and yes, it is coming to end, but without them I would never be able to be where I am today.
