Summer camp sparks team bonding for varsity volleyball team

Sometimes inspiration for a team comes from an unlikely place.  Sometimes it comes from a saying, a word or a song, but for this year’s varsity volleyball team, it came from a flock of geese.

Senior captain Leah Casey struggled with how to bring the volleyball team together.  She said it seemed like everyone was playing their position, but there was no teamwork. She found a solution at a summer leadership camp.

She shareded it with the volleyball team after practice.  The article, Lessons from Geese, gave new meaning to the team.

Geese fly in a flock. If one of them falls, then others will go down and help it back up. This is the same for the volleyball team and how they cheer each other up if they get down on themselves or each other.

When the geese fly together, they stay in formation and go in the same direction as one another to reach the same destination.

“We all have a common goal and we have to move forward together to reach it,” sophomore Daina Phillips said.

The volleyball team’s poster depicts them walking forward in a V formation just like geese. This was a coincidence.

“I think the poster is very fitting to what our focus is going to be in this year’s season,” junior Hannah Bradshaw said.

If geese are flying in their formation and everyone is in line, everything runs smoothly just like when the whole team is focused on the common goal of winning.

When one goose goes astray or if one player loses sight of the goal and goes off track, it makes it harder for the rest of the geese, or players, to stay in formation.

“When everyone remembers the common goal, we reach it much easier,” senior captain Catie Cline Said.

Geese act like family and help each other out when they are in trouble. Just like the volleyball team, the geese stay together through the bad and the good times or the wins and the losses.

“I definitely think our team is playing more like a team now, in fact we are playing more like a family,” Phillips said.

See them fly together at their next home game against Wylie High Oct. 4. The varsity match will start at 5:30.