The Apple TV shows a screen saver of photos flying by when it's playing music, and among the albums I have that sync with it include my 2004 and 2005 volleyball teams. 2004 was the year I had Caity and Katie, Rachel, Megan, Dana, Jackie, Bridget, Amanda and Val. We had a particularly good time in Baltimore and won our lowly bracket. 2005 was the year I had Jossie, Rachel, Rachel, Bridget again, Sara, Kali, Gabbi, Katie and Carly. It was a slightly less strong team, but they had such a good time together.
You might think that I'd be sad or something because I'm not coaching this year, but honestly, I'm not at all. I still love the sport, love shaping young minds and look forward to doing it again... but on my terms where the situation doesn't suck.
Those were an amazing couple of years for me. I got to coach my setting prodigy (who would be one regardless of whether or not I coached her), and had a lot of success making kids better players. I'll have those opportunities again. I'm not planning on dying tomorrow.
I've really come to accept that I can only be so many things at one time, and right now I want to be into relationship developing and being an entrepreneur. I'll add coaching back into the mix when it feels right, and I can really do it the way I know I can. For now, I'm just happy to have those volleyball memories, and the lasting friendships with many of those kids.