- November 5, 2024
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The best advice I ever got was from my parents. They told me that the size of a person doesn’t make an athlete, but instead the heart and effort. I was usually the smallest person on any team I joined and was never the star athlete, but was always taught to do my best and was born with a highly competitive spirit.
As a student, I played softball, volleyball, track and golf, but it wasn’t until my sophomore year in high school that I was faced with the choice of living out my parents’ advice or believing a varsity volleyball coach.
That coach told me I shouldn’t be at volleyball tryouts because I am too small and have no future in the sport. I endured tryouts and ended up making the JV team. At the end of the year, we moved to Florida, and I continued to play volleyball and other sports throughout high school.
I ended up getting a volleyball scholarship to college. Now, I’m the volleyball coach at Matanzas High School and for a local club team during the offseason.
Thank goodness I listened to my parents’ advice, and not the poor advice of this coach.
