Congratulations. You're on the 'box score'. Now come the hard questions that you have to answer.
1. What gets you and keeps you on the court?
2. How do you make the team better?
3. How do you make the girl "one pass away" better?
4. How do you impact winning?
5. What specifically can you do to earn the coaches' trust?
There's no 'secret sauce' but pathways exist.
Intangibles (hard to measure but real qualities)
- Connection (teamwork)
- Coachability
- Communication (talk)
- Effort - practice is the bank where you make deposits
- Toughness - resilience under stress
- Leadership (do the right things, the right way, as much as possible)
Execution
- Good decisions (volleyball IQ)
- Playmaking (relative to your position - serve, receive, attack, set, block, pass)
- Results (keeping the ball up, putting the ball down)
If a coach approaches you at practice today and asks "how can you contribute today, this week, this season?," provide an answer because you've thought about it.
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