Last Saturday I had my first.
I had my first volleyball game, of course.
If you remember , I made B Team (BT) and BT was split into 2 teams,(still a part of BT) Red(R) and Blue(B). I got put on the better side, B. I already knew everyone on B and we were pretty good not gonna lie. The way game days(Saturdays) work is that B was gonna play 2 teams from different schools, so two games. And then R would do the same. However, on this day, each BT would be playing 1 school. So Coach arranged it so that R went up against B. R went up against the other school first. And took both sets, so they won. But I can’t give you any details cause I’m not R. Next it was R vs B. They served first and we picked it up. We didn’t have any combos down or specific positions like setter, left wing spiker, etc. A Team was the ones to do that kind of stuff. Coach didn’t care about spiking or making points from our sides. Coach just wanted us to get the ball over the net. About 10 minutes had past and we were leading 10 to 5. Also, I was not in the game at the moment. A Team actually benches people for the entire game but BT has to give each player equal playing time, whether they were good or not. So it was at this moment I was subbed in. I’m #3. I was in front left and we had just scored a point. Which meant the person serving on our side would stay serving. We lost the serve and they served up. It headed straight towards me and I called, picking up the ball. My mistake then was passing it over the net, I wanted to try this new thing I was working on separately with my friend on B. The plan was for me to set up the ball for her spike. Realizing my mistake, I glance over at my friend, motioning a ‘sorry’. She shook her head, telling me that she didn’t care. Luckily, R was able to pick up the ball, but it was passed out. That meant we had to rotate clockwise. And I was rotating to back left, the serving position. My serves have never been strong, in fact my underhand serves go pretty high but they don’t go over the net. My overhand serves however, can go over the net, but not high enough so they either go under the net or hit the net. A part of me was saying to try overhand but that was too risky, if I didn’t hit the ball at the right time, it would either hit my fingers or my forearm. And overhand serves go more powerful if they are hit my the palm. So I ruled out overhand. I had to do underhand. There was no way my timing could be off and I don’t have to throw the ball, so I know exactly where my hand will hit it. So I served underhand. Not gonna lie my legs were shaking. This was my first volleyball game ever and my mom, little sister, grandma, Vinh, and Lanvy were watching. I didn’t dare to make eye contact. But I ended up messing up my footing and screwed the serve. It didn’t really matter, we won anyway. Our next game was against another school. They were bigger and their serves were arm-ripping.
We lost.
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