Sunday, October 26, 2025

"Nobody Is Coming to Save You"

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Sport teaches many lessons - competition, teamwork, resilience. Coaches take "timeouts" to help reset the team's energy, compo...

Introduce Yourself to the Broom

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" Our first jobs introduce us to the broom ." - Andrew Carnegie "Everything is a chance to do and to be your best." - Ry...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

"Don't Take Anything Personally"

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Don't Take Anything Personally pic.twitter.com/apWhzZelbg — InspiroQuest (@InspiroQuest) October 19, 2025 "Don't take anything...

Tell the Best Version of Your Story, "One More"

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"Little things make big things happen." - John Wooden People are "the storytelling animal." The Heath Brothers shared th...

Stats Are In - Melrose vs Watertown

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Stats are in.  Not much to be gleaned here. 

Fast Five: Reminders for Athletes

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"How you do anything is how you do everything." Be eclectic.    Eclectic means drawing ideas, style, or taste from a wide and div...

Senior Night Photography from Raj Das

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Melrose is fortunate to have a photography craftsman in Raj Das. He shares Senior Night photographs here . His photography website links her...
Friday, October 24, 2025

What's Your Theme as a Player?

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In French, the term is "raison d'etre."  The French phrase “raison d’être” translates literally as “reason for being” or “re...

Game 20: Melrose 3 Watertown 0

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Melrose defeated Watertown 25-17, 25-12, and 25-16 on Senior Night before an excellent crowd at the MVMMS. The win completes the regular sea...

Updated Power Rankings and You See What You Look For

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All opinions expressed in the blog are solely mine. The blog is not an official publication of MVB or any City of Melrose institution.  Look...

Control

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Athletes work to change the impossible into the improbable, the improbable into the possible.  Image from Ryan Holiday's "The Obsta...

"I Love the Boos. It Means You're Relevant."

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Teams lose or learn. Melrose earned headlines , not the desired kind, in today's Boston Globe.    Former Patriots' defensive coordin...

Progress Means Discomfort

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Want separation? Do what most won’t. If it’s easy, you’re maintaining—not improving. Growth lives in purposeful discomfort. pic.twitter.com/...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

Senior Night

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Melrose hosts Watertown tonight amidst the pomp and pageantry that is Senior Night. Families, friends, and fans recognize MVB graduating sen...

Coaching as Teaching, Lessons from the Court

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Not every piece written or season coached will resonate. That’s what good teachers hope for — connection. Connection changes and molds peopl...

Three Answers

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There's a saying that three answers exist to your prayers, "Yes, No, and Wait." With the desire, ability, and persistence, som...

Stat Leaders

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Melrose usually is well-represented among Massachusetts state leaders. MVB 2025 is no exception.  Setters don't get the glory, the atten...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Work-Life Balance

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"It seems that you’re so caught up in and busy with work that you’ve had no time for the one thing that you’ve told me keeps your sanit...

Stats Are In - Melrose versus Stoneham (Wenzel Ties Career Season Attack Record)

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Stats are in .  Serving:  Melrose was just under 90 percent in serving percentage (they had four errors early). Alisa Dautovic had 21 servic...

Game 19: Melrose 3 Stoneham 0

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Melrose visited Stoneham on the Spartans' Senior Night and didn't help their hosts celebrate winning 25-8, 25-11, and 25-12. The win...