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Spring Training

Spring season just started. No, not the flowers and showers but 6am practices for volleyball. It’s great to be back with the team and practicing our passion! You’re probably wondering why we have practices so early. We have our practices early because so many girls have a different schedule in the evenings with work, night classes, other sports, and studying. Having practice at 6am is the best meeting time. It’s also really nice getting things going early in the day, up and moving, and getting a good breakfast in rather than sleeping in. I feel like since I have a busy schedule my time management in back into play because I know I need to get things done. The con of this early morning torture is that I have to get up before the rooster crows. By the middle of the day I feel like a zombie, grumpy, and don’t want to talk to people- which is completely unlike me! So, the result is that I have to plan my day really well. I have to try and get a middle of the day power nap in so that I can make it to ten o’clock. Also, I have to adjust to going to bed earlier since I have to get up at the crack of dawn (or so it seems). I took into account last semester that I would be having early practices and wanted to start my classes later in the day so that I’d have time to shower and get breakfast. Last year I had class at 8:30am and had to go straight from practice to class. I couldn’t let this happen again because I felt so rushed and not to mention, gross. So far things have been going well, we are in our second week of practices and will go until spring break then resume for two weeks after break. We are allotted one competition day and we’ll be hosting the tournament here at the Mount at the beginning of April. Hopefully our hard work will pay off and we’ll take the trophy. Better get going on my homework…… have to be in the gym at 5:40am tomorrow!