Descriptive Essay About Volleyball Game

     The sport of volleyball was created by a man named William G. Morgan of Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895. Morgan was a physical education teacher at the YMCA and called it "mintonette". It was an indoor or outdoor pastime that had characteristics of both handball and tennis. The first rules were written down by Morgan himself. He wrote that the game called for a 6 foot 6 inch net and a court of 25x50 feet. A match composed of 9 innings and 3 serves for each team in each inning. In case of a serving error they got a second chance just like in tennis. If the ball it the net

It was a nice and sunny day, with birds chirping and the smell of freshly cut grass. I felt the leather on my baseball glove and the delicious taste of cereal. I’m ready to play some baseball.

Most people believe soccer is nothing but just a game , but for me, it's more than a game it's a passion. Soccer involves hard work , dedication , and long hours out in the field. It takes hard work to be out in the field playing with a ball aggressively and with skills. Soccer is a sport where there is no giving up , in order to be successful, you need to practice intensely to get stronger and better every day. There's times where you want to give up, but you just can't you need to find some type of motivation to keep you going. My coach is the person who has made an impact in my life . By that it changed me in many different ways. He has been able to motivate me , support me , and not letting me fail.

She past me the ball, I took a jump stop and my left knee turned inward to my right knee. My knee turned so bad that the left one touched the right one making a popping sound. I fell to the court in pain while the tears mixed with sweat. The coaches had to call for an ambulance to take me to Cook’s Children Hospital.

This piece was important to me. I love the way that it describes the game. I choose it because it shows my perspective, a player. There is lots of rhyming in this poem. In every second and fourth line in each stanza rhymed. I liked the rhyming because it made me want to keep reading. It made the poem more intense and gave it better flow. The theme shows what volleyball is about. It also shows how the tensions that rise. This poem connects to my paper because it shows my perspective. Volleyball reminds me of being on the court. I could picture a game in my head, my team is serving. I am at the net, ready to sprint across. When you’re on the net and the server hits the ball, everything turns into slow motion.

People have always loved to play games. The human race has created hundreds of thousands of games to entertain themselves and to compete with one another. The most beloved games are those of physical sports. One of these sports, that has become a worldwide phenomenon, is the game soccer. The entire world gathers every four years to send out their best team, and to see which country is the ultimate champion. To play the game of soccer, there needs to be referees to ensure that the players are safe and are following the rules. Though this was once a highly respected position, in Virginia, working as a referee is no longer worth the time, due to a lack of respect, no support system, and the constant variations and changes to the rules.

Volleyball, widely known in the Midwest as a sport played mostly by girls, is getting some male attention in many cities, including Kansas City. Sisters or friends who adore volleyball are getting their siblings, and sometimes brothers, into the sport. Before, there weren’t any teams for boys, which would direct them to play with a girls’ team, or more often, not play at all. Luckily, nowadays, there are a few individuals who saw this dilemma thus creating multiple teams for boys to play with. Nevertheless, there are still a few main problems that need ironing out. Those problems being that it is challenging to recruit boys to play for the team, plus there aren’t many teams for boys to play on. So let's investigate and look into the possible solutions to these matters.

When one thinks about volleyball, what do they think of? An easy sport, for girls only? I bet that is what you think about, well according to Danielle Bettermann volleyball is actually a sport for males also, and is also very difficult. She says “Volleyball takes a lot of the following things, diversity, teamwork, rivalries, love for the game, intensity, aggression, and that the skills take forever to perfect.” (Bettermann).

Competition is vital for a sport to continue to grow and engage audience attention around the world.

It was the summer prior to freshman year, and all I wanted to do was make the volleyball team. However, I was not a great player and I did not make the team. Although it hurt when it happened, I did not know what it would lead to. In the middle of first semester, my friend had told me Valencia was going to form a lacrosse team and thought we should join. Not knowing anything about the sport, I agreed. The problem was there was only going to be a boys’ team, and some of the boys and their fathers were not keen on us joining. Despite their opinions of us, we found a coach who would teach us and began preparing.

I felt like I could do anything. The moment was extremely surreal. I hadn’t accomplished anything so arduous in my life. The crowd’s cheers were thundering through my body. I had so much adrenaline coursing through my veins that I wasn’t even weary. People were jumping up and down, screaming in victory, and clapping so loud I couldn’t hear myself think. I couldn’t believe that I had just won the State Championship volleyball game.

Playing on the varsity volleyball team is an adrenaline rush like no other. To be able to play the sport you love with teammates that are like family, in front of a crowd of actual family members is the ultimate feeling. Playing is even better when you, a small town nobody, beat a ranked team in the first set. We had just beaten Humboldt 25-17 and I was on top of the world. We were playing like our lives depended on it and I couldn’t be more proud of the girls.

I first started playing volleyball at a very young age. I was in the seventh grade when my volleyball career started. My sister started playing in the seventh grade and I just wanted to follow her footsteps. My seventh grade year was ok because I had just started out and really didn’t know the game. There was A team and a B team, where A team was better than the B team. I tried my best to be on the A-team, but guess where I ended up, on the B team.

The popularity of Volleyball has increased dramatically over past years. This is a result of commodification. Commodification is the process of turning something into a commodity that can be bought and sold. Over the past 20 years, Volleyball has evolved from a simple, fun and recreational sport to a more appealing, more sexualized version, beach volleyball. As a result of this evolution, beach volleyball has received a vast improvement in popularity, especially amongst a male audience. The intent of this essay is to examine the sport of beach volleyball and explain why the individuals, and the sport itself, have evolved throughout the years. Volleyball’s transformation into beach volleyball is a positive step forward for the sport in

As my heart grew for the love of volleyball, I took my talents to harder competition, Great Lakes at the end of my sixth-grade season. This is a very well-known team and they are very superior at volleyball. That was one of the scariest tryouts I have ever attended because there were over three hundred girls trying out for the volleyball team! The first thing everyone was tested on was "hitting". Every girl got in a line and tried their best to hit the ball over the net. Well, I was still in sixth grade at the time along with many other girls and most of us were all still fairly short. I was the next girl in line to hit, I had butterflies in my stomach like no other. I walked up to the ten-foot line and did my approach. Boom! The ball goes screaming over the net! I never knew I had such great power in my arm. Next up in line was the girl behind me her name was Megan, she was also short. Megan goes up to the line and swung at the ball but missed. The girls in the gym were laughing at her because the ball went under the net instead of going over. Suddenly