Personal Narrative: My Volleyball Team

My volleyball team is the Saint Susanna Spartans. There are eight people on this team, myself included, and we are on the A team. The other girls on the team are: Adison, Audra, Emma, Grace, Isabel, Lydia, and Madison. Everyone on the team is kind and smart. They are wonderful people. We have two setters, Madison, and myself. We also have middle hitters and outside hitters. Emma and Grace are middle hitters. Lydia and Adison are outside hitters. Isabel and Audra are general passers. We all have our own position and are important for the team in order to win. Everyone does good things for the team. Lydia, Madison, and Adison are our best servers. Audra and Isabel are the best at getting the ball in the right spot for the setter. Emma, Lydia, and Grace are our best hitters, and Madison is our best setter. I like many different things about everybody. Like how they play, and their personalities towards the team. Adison is the funny one and she is really good at giving advice. That helps the team a lot. Emma and Isabel are both smart and know what they are talking about. Lydia, Madison, and Grace are all good at being great friends
and being there for everyone on the team no matter what. Those are all great qualities to have. Everyone on our team has played volleyball for at least two years, so everyone has a general knowledge of the game and that helps out our team and our coach tremendously. Everyone is such good friends on our team, so sometimes it is hard to have a serious practice where all we do is work.
We are all goofy and mess around. That is not the best for our team, but it reminds us that we are doing this not only to be good, but to have fun with friends. Sometimes, we get carried away on what we were talking about either before practice, or what had happened that day at school. Also, it is hard sometimes to be very positive when the same people keep messing up all of the time. However, we have to remember that we are all trying to get better and be the best that we can. Positivity is really the key to a team in order for them to bond, and play well together. Every once in while, but not very often, some people get down and negative about the team. Again, we have to remember to stay positive no matter what
happens. No one says bad things cannot turn to good things. Talking about things that happened at school could help us to figure out issues. Also, if we are making jokes and laughing, it could cheer us up about messing up or not doing the best in practice. If we are not positive, we just need to take a breath and turn that into positivity. That way, it could motivate the other person to do better. Change the negativity into encouragement. Change it into something that could be good for the team, because at that moment in time, the team is the most important thing. No one would want to hurt the team or discourage anyone on the team. We are all positive influences on everyone. Nothing will change that. Everyone on the team does good and bad things. But, that is what makes us the team that we are. We mess up, but we also get better. We bond with our teammates like no one else does. We have known each other for ten years, and we will know each other for even longer. So yes, we can be dumb and make stupid mistakes, but we will all get better, and we will work together better than any other team that we face. That is what any team needs. A team is like a machine, and if the parts don’t work together, then the machine breaks down. In conclusion, a team is lucky if they have as good of a team as the Saint Susanna Spartans.