Learning Outcome: Commitment and Perseverance

Reflecting back on my volleyball experience, I think that I displayed perseverance and commitment throughout the season. Given that the activity itself required all the athletes to train 3 times a week, it is fair to say that a certain amount of commitment was shown from not only myself, but as well as peers, in attending the training sessions each week. It was the first time I had really signed up for the volleyball season so I had very little prior experience with the team themselves, before signing up. However, I decided to commit to it and showed up at all the training sessions no matter what. As the season progressed, unfortunately I grew to dislike the atmosphere at training, and the amount of pressure other individuals would put on less experienced players like myself. Although I was a bit uncomfortable with that, I still decided to persevere on with the activity as I had already committed to it – in that, I made the most of my experience. Although I wouldn’t say I’d sign up for another season, I did take away a lot of skills (that I talked about in previous reflections) from the activity and in my mind it was worth a shot. I had limit experience with playing volleyball prior to this, so my thinking was that I had to persevere through the trainings, and at least in the end, if I decided that the sports not for me, at least I can say open and honestly that I did try my best during the training sessions and that I did give volleyball the time of day.