As we practiced daily, it was slow at first but soon
we were playing more as a team. We had to learn the rules, and the terminology.
We learned how to serve the ball, returned the ball, bump the ball for the
server to set the ball for the hitter. We talked about strategy, technique, and
plays that would confuse the other team and are advantageous for our team. Our
first few scrimmages against other team did not go well. We needed to
communicate with each other. Calling for
the ball, setting for each other, letting a teammate know that the return shot
was going out were all things we needed to work on. The official season was to
start, we got our uniforms. Our coach
had pulled some strings to get us official uniforms; we started to feel like
team and now we looked like a team. We were a tribe that had social structure,
and could identify ourselves and others could identify us as a team. At least
we looked the part, but were we ready to face another team?
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