Accomplishment

Today was a great one. I had personal training at 1:30 with the amazing Jocelyn Forest at Santa Cruz Strength where I have officially started to weightlift. She taught me how to do overhead snatches and I have fallen in love with them! It was such a great feeling because I accomplished learning a whole new lift in one day that sometimes takes people to learn in weeks. After I got them down, I went and did block jumps with 193 pounds. I love block jumps because I can just feel my legs pushing for those jumps, exploding through the weight, and increasing my vertical jump by the second. I then got into hurdle work and did some one leg hops through them, finishing with abs and back.

I also had volleyball practice tonight. It was a great practice because everyone is so determined to do well in our upcoming tournament on February 9th and 10th at the Sacramento Convention Center. My team makes me so proud. I just joined Club Shoreline last year and they asked me to play up, so I took the spot. I met my amazing team that I am continuing to play with for one more year, then hopefully playing with Vision Volleyball Club, a college recruiting volleyball team, next year.

I felt so accomplished today. It made me feel so confident and made me want to pursue in so much more. Being confident is such a big key point in being an athlete, it really determines where you could go. It's all about determination. You have to believe in your own potential. If you have the determination and confidence towards a big goal, you will be taken there by the way you guide yourself. I've really learned that you need to be confident in the people that you work and play with. That is such a main factor because if you do not believe in one of your teammates, then you are not being a team player. You have to send praise to your teammates and not crave their love and affection. Having that factor will make you feel more loved, more valuable, and make you all feel like you are really a team/family, working together as a whole.

I don't think of my team as a team. They are family. You spend so much time with them and you work together as one. Everyone on a team should all have one goal in mind: SUCCESS. "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." Find success in your career, no matter what it is! Everyone has the potential to pursure in their dreams/goals!

This is a picture of my team last year! We have lost number 2 (to the left of me) and number 13 (to the right of me) and have added two amazing players! Go Shoreline!