Hello volleyball fans,
Team Volleyhype was fortunate enough to catch up with Abbotsford's very own Ian Perry who is a UBC athlete going into his second year with the Thunderbirds. Take a look at his experience training in Gatineau, QC were the Mens National training center is located.
Enjoy
-Team Volleyhype
This year they decided to select the junior national team from the provincial team national championship that was held in Toronto. They had a few individual practice sessions with each team to take a look at some select skills but for the most part the team was being selected from performance during the tournament. B.C ( my team) had an unfortunate injury with one of our top players and ended up a upsetting 5th place. With this seeding I certainly though the slim chances of making the team I had were diminished. Hearing my name announced on the official list almost stopped my heart, not only had I had the team I was also the only Libero that was chosen. With the 3 other CIS liberos at the tournament from others teams and my in experience at the position I was super excited but also a little nervous.
The team finally met up for the first time and had a 4 hour team bonding ride to ottawa where we met most of the guys for the first time.
We started training almost right away, usually training for 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours at night. The level of training is certainly the best part of being on the team. Even without the good coaching you cant help but get better having the best in the country around you.
As training continued for 3 weeks our team (the guys) went certainly from strangers a few weeks before to basically best friends. All the guys are sweet.
Another awesome highlight is being able to play at the new training centre in gatineau. Playing on the new taraflex floor is nice on the knees.
As the tournament grew closer we started practicing having some practice matches and drills against guys from the senior national team. At first this was terrifying for everyone having the best guys in the nation on the other side of the net.
That’s it for now; hopefully you guys can catch some of our games that are being webcasted on…
http://ssncanada.ca/media/special_pages/volleyballcanada-live.html
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