Sunday, January 18, 2026

Become the Standard

Players create memories - of the 'guys' who show up every day as competitors, communicators, and great teammates.

When you coach and watch sports for ages, players and plays resonate. 

The 2022 team showed maximum resilience during a postseason match with Billerica with one of the greatest points in MVB history. 

Set 4, Melrose leads 23-22. Ruth Breen slows an attack, Emma Desmond makes a running one-handed save going out of bounds, and Chloe Gentile gets a kill with an athletic adjustment. The bench goes wild. 

The standard happens at the intersection of skill, strategy (including game understanding), physicality (conditioning), and psychology (resilience). 

Become the standard. It's dishonest to say you'd rather have a 2-star player with a 5-star attitude than a 5-star player with a 2-star attitude. Coaches want 5-star players with 5-star attitudes. 

"Always do your best." Being the best version of yourself daily won't come easy. It won't always win or make you an all-star. But it brings peace of mind and dispels regret. 

As Jim Rohn said, "we suffer the pain of discipline or the pain of regret." 

Lagniappe. Timeless..."an accumulation of your thoughts, your habits, and your priorities." 

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