Be The One

This season Relentless made a decision to BE THE ONE.  We saw a need in Central Pa for a substantial yet financially accessible club volleyball experience for girls.  We could have sat back and asked, expected or waited for someone else do it.  But, much like years ago when I helped introduce grassroots youth developmental volleyball leagues into the area, it was time to BE THE ONE.  Expanding from two 14U travel teams to six teams ranging 12U-18U will stretch you. It will stretch your resources, personnel, patience, resolve and sanity.  Growth forces you to learn, to invest, to delegate, to train and to trust!  Bigger forces you to do more and be more, it forces you to GROW!

Each player in our club has new challenges before them.  None of our teams have played together as a unit before.  There are new players, new coaches and new roles.  Change is not comfortable.  Those who have in the past been role players are now suddenly leaders. Many are for the first time playing with kids who are mostly not from their school.  Some are playing new and unfamiliar positions. 

My challenge to each of our players - BE THE ONE!  Volleyball is one of the ultimate team sports. However, don’t use the “team” as an excuse to shift blame and responsibility onto someone else or onto the vague collective.  A successful team is a powerful fusion of individuals who each fully embrace and perform their individual jobs in unison for the good of the whole.  When you run… your heart pumps the blood, your lungs feed it oxygen, your muscles move the legs and your eyes see the path ahead.  Each organ has its own individual job yet they work together in unison to push the whole body ahead.  If the heart fails, the legs cannot run and body falls to the ground. 

Your team is your responsibility.  It will become a reflection of what you contribute.  You cannot ride the coattails of those who carried your last team.  You cannot toil quietly, err and hope that no one notices.  There is no one else to do your job.  Your team needs you to do the job.  Your team EXPECTS you to do the job.  Whether your team needs you to get the kill, make the block, dig the shot, put up the set… you can’t wait on someone else to save the day. Own your job and do it as well or better than you expect your teammates to do theirs.  Don’t accept mediocrity or minimal effort from yourself. If you want a better team, make yourself better.  That will in turn make your team better!  

Look for the reasons why, not the excuses for why not. But what if I fail? What if don’t have the skills or the confidence? No progress comes without failure.  Work hard to develop your skills which will increase both your confidence and your competence.  After all of this struggle and hard work, what if we lose?  To steal upon the words of Teddy Rooseveltat least fail while daring greatly, so that your place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat!

EMBRACE THE CHALLENGE. COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS!  YOU DO IT.  BE THE ONE!

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