Trust the Process - Excellent Coaches Seek Understanding Not Validation

It's an invitation to explore and view it from the 'opponents' side.

I've done this with everything from sports teams game plans, to books, to proposals

Do it right with your team and it's actually a lot of fun. pic.twitter.com/p0s6WxojMo

— Fergus Connolly (@Fergus_Connolly) October 18, 2022

I've known Coach Scott Celli for over twenty years and respect him and his body of work for many reasons. 

• Commitment - He's 'all in' on the success of the program. 
• Equity - Players get opportunity to expand their role. He runs a 'performance-focused, feedback-rich' program.
• Analysis - Coaches don't have to submit statistics to sites like Maxpreps.com. 
• Consistency - Melrose has earned a playoff berth for twenty-three consecutive seasons. 
• Player/Team development - The team you see at the end of the season is always fundamentally better than at the beginning. That makes them a tough out in the postseason. 
• Competitiveness - Melrose has played three of the top teams in their divisions and the state in Westborough, Newton Newton North, and Frontier. To have a chance in the playoffs you have to play the best. 
• Systems orientation - Improvement demands good habits within better systems. What systems or process change the games? Captaincy selection involves essay, interview, consultation with school leadership, and voting. Offseason camps build skill. Team reading builds leadership.

Personnel and strategy are fully his domain. He has 'coaches' eyes' every day at practice and has navigated decades of volleyball rough seas and halcyon days. Trust the process. 

Melrose Notes: Melrose Volleyball has never been about individual statistics. But individual achievement does earn mention. 

Ruth Breen and Leah Fowke split the setting duty Wednesday at Watertown with both recording double digit assist. 

Four Melrose attackers had at least six kills. 

Congratulations to Gia Vlajkovic for accumulating 210 kills in sixteen matches this season, vaulting her into the Melrose Top 20 kills in a single season with four games remaining not including the postseason.