Volleyball Blues

This would be me begging Olympic Gold Medalist, Kerri Walsh to sub in on our team. So she gave me her contact info and said when she's in town to give ger a call and we'd have another outside hitter!

When I began my blog, I wrote about my first volleyball game of the season and how we lost two out of three games to a deaf team. Well, since that ONE win, there hasn't been another. That was four weeks ago, and I gotta tell ya' I'm startin' to get a little down.
I LOVE playing volleyball, and I love to play competitively, but our team is in way over our heads in this league.
And the sad thing is, it's really not that difficult of play, it's just very organized.
I don't know what we can do.
I'm a very vocal player, probably from playing organized ball in high school and a little in college. So if you're familiar with the sport of volleyball, you'll sympathize with me when I say I'm yelling, "TIP!!! DUMP!!!! ANGLE ANGLE!!!!!! LINE!!!! IT'S GOOD!!!!!!" and we just can't get anything done.
We have talented individuals on our team, with some height to boot, but we haven't mastered using what each of us are good at to better our team as a whole.
That thought process of, "she's a good setter and she's a good hitter, let's put them next to each other" does not exist on this team.
I've been trying to be more upbeat when were down by 11 points in a game, though I feel like screaming, I know it doesn't help team morale. I try to see that we're still pretty new at playing together, and one of our girls doesn't seem that she's EVER played at all. It's ok Kim, we'll forgive you for recruiting her.
It's just frustrating when you KNOW you're better than you're performing (like the Packers).

I'm hoping that by the end of this season, everyone will walk away with greater ability to utilize their skills. That would be the greatest accomplishment.

Winning ain't everything, but then why does it suck so much to lose?
cue the harmonica cause I got the volleyball blues.