Thoughts on "selling" boys volleyball to new players:
I was probably not fully prepared for what I was about to do when I said, "Yes, I'll be the head coach and start a new high school program." However, I did know immediately that I would put my best effort into creating the type of high school program that I had seen be successful. That meant that more days than not, I spent some part of my day working on things related to my new adventure. Planning, planning, planning... Right? Luckily for me, I'm fortunate to be in an area where boys volleyball is somewhat established, so finding teams to play was not terribly difficult, but finding players would prove to be another story. My program is at a highly rated, urban, city school district - where many students had never even thought of the possibility of boys volleyball, let alone actually play it competitively! I've lost count of the number of times boys have asked me, "Do you have to wear booty shorts to play?" or, "Does the team wear those sh