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And so with today’s game, our volleyball season comes to an end. I would like to say it was one of the most fun intramural sports experience I’ve had so far. First of all a huge thanks to Matt, Matt, Matt (see a pattern there?), David, Andrew, Vanessa and Linda for a whole lot of fun games. We had a bunch more people on our roster, but these are the ones that made it every time, and considering we won 3 of our 6 games with only 5 people playing, that counts

Our last game was close. We started off by winning the first set 25-13, and losing the second set 22-25. I think maybe we could have had the second set, we just got off to a slow start, and when we started working them again we were just a bit too far behind. We lost the tie breaker set 13-15. As you can see, it could have gone our way. But I’m not even angry, I’m being so sincere right now… (is that song ever going to get old, nah!).

What I also want to talk about is teamwork and fun. And the reason it comes up is simple. Today, we had fun. Which I feel is a lot more important than the experience that 4 people got on the opposing team. Yep, that’s right, after the first set, they literally almost sat 4 people on the sides and definitely didn’t play them in the tie-breaker set. I mean, yes, I would have liked them to play their weaker players as it means we probably would have definitely won. But that’s not it. Who makes a team with friends and tells their own friends to not play just for the win. That mentality never made sense to me. Ever. We lost, and I’m sure every person can say it was close and they personally had fun. Sure those 4 may have won, but were they even part of the team in the first place?

Hopefully we can get most of this team together for maybe next fall. It would be pretty awesome, we were all kinds of sweet sauce by the end of the season, and half of us can’t even jump to reach the top of the net! XD