Volleyball

In this post I want to talk about volleyball and what it means to me. Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net, and the aim of the team is ground the ball in the other team's field.

I've been playing volleyball since I was 12; a bunch of girls wanted to start a volleyball team in Castelló, so we did it. Some of us had never touched a ball before, but we were willing to learn. Nowadays, five years later 5 of us original girls are still playing together  in Sant Pere Pescador. 

I always think that I started playing real volleyball when I moved to Sant Pere, in 2014. That year was the first one that we played in a higher level, and we started to play every weekend.

Every training and every match made us better, in each match there was something better than the match before, we were improving week to week, until now. We still keep learning every day. Thanks to our new trainer, we started to learn a team works, we learnt to trust in our teammates, we learnt values such as commitment, cooperation and unity. 

Since 2014 nothing has changed, there are some new girls and other ones who have left it, but as my trainer says, the ones who really want to play volleyball, who don’t mind spending all the afternoon in the sports complex supporting other teams or playing, the ones who wake up at dawn to take the bus and drive for 3 hours to play, even if the night before was carnival. These are the girls that keep playing.

I am so proud of my team, we are a very united team, on and off the field, and that’s because we spend a lot of time together, not only in trainings but because almost every time that we play in another town or city we have to stay there and have lunch or dinner, so we talk and laugh a lot. Also, every year we go to another city to play a tournament, so we spend a complete weekend together. Nowadays, thanks to all these things we do, there is a lot of confidence with all the teammates and with the trainer.

To sum up, I want to say that volleyball has made me live experiences and feelings that I couldn’t live if I didn’t play. I wouldn’t change at all the feeling of making a point during a difficult match, and celebrate it all together or the adrenaline that you feel after a good match. Playing volleyball is my passion, and thanks to it I have met a lot of fantastic people and spent a great time with them.