A Letter to All! 

 

I would first like to start by giving a Giant thanks for letting me be a part of your lives this year! If you are receiving this, you participated in one of our groups starting all the way back to last September up until last night.  It is because of you that I get to live my dream, and chase my passion.  Those that were able to attend last night get an extra special thank you... If I would ever remember to film our first practices, and then our last... What a stark contrast!  The competition level and game-play was fun to watch! Obviously the weather was insane right before we were to begin, and many of you pushed through and were gifted with a very mild temperature for August!  I could not have celebrated my birthday any better than surrounded by your families, except for the impromptu singing of Happy Birthday(could have done without that! haha).  Also thank you for the many cards and gifts, they were very much appreciated, and definitely not necessary... I often have trouble expressing my gratitude, but know it brightens my day.

 

UPCOMING:

We have several dates in August that I hope many of you will attend.  If you are planning on continuing your beach volleyball journey, it is important to try to stay in the sand as much as possible.  It takes a long time to get your body acclimated to moving in sand, and only a very short time to lose it... Plus if I am being honest, you will be missed!  The groups will be small, so expect them to fill up...register early!

 

Fall:

I know many of you will be playing for your schools, but as before, it is important to stay in the sand, even if it is one day a week.  The schedule is set up so that you have options to work around your school schedule.    Please note that if you can only make it once a week, it will be to maintain what we have built so far and not let the prior lessons be forgotten.  Registrations will open up in the next week or so, remember these are now on the Court Reserve App, or you can get to them from the website!

 

Year Round Programs:

If you have participated in the past, many things will be the same, but we will be adding another layer... Travel Group... This will follow the Full Time groups training sessions, but this group will be competing in tournaments, and will not be optional.  Not as intense as our College Group, but we will be traveling outside of our states to participate.  There is a big world out there of beach volleyball players, and I want them to experience playing on some of the iconic beaches in the south!

 

In conclusion... I am blessed with who I have been able to teach, to motivate, to help be successful.  It is not only volleyball that I try to teach, but life lessons, hopefully things they can take with them when they depart to help better their lives.  I hope they all know that I am hard on them, because I care... The world can be a crazy place, and it takes a village to prepare them, and I am most grateful for being part of that village.

 

If anyone has any questions, please let me know!  We will have a few parent meetings about our year round programs in the coming months... Please check the events page on our website for those dates and times!