Volleyball-HSJV1

The Week Ahead

Hi, JV1 families! I just wanted to send a quick note to let you know that I'm out this week. The girls know this if they were here last week, but since a few have been out I wanted to make sure I communicated it to everyone. My daughter is going to college in a couple weeks, so we're on a trip with her and a few friends, and of course the only week that worked out of the whole summer was this one.

Coach Megan will be with the girls this week, along with Coach Denise and the rest of our wonderful coaching staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkpmYtog...

Also, I told the girls I would send a video of a 5-1 rotation. If your athlete has been out, have her watch this to get an overview of the rotation we'll be using to start off our season. Some of the distinctives of this are slightly different than what we will do, but it's a good basic idea of where to go during the various rotations. And if you want to learn more about volleyball, this is a great introduction to positions and rotations.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Coach Parks

Welcome to JV1!

I'm so excited to have the privilege of coaching each of young women on JV1 this year.

For those I haven't met, my name is Catherine Parks, and this is my 6th year coaching at FCS. I fell in love with volleyball as a freshman in high school and played through high school and college. When my daughter decided to play in the 8th grade, I offered to help out, started coaching JV, and discovered a love for coaching and building relationships with the amazing athletes in our program. When I'm not at the gym, I work as an acquisitions editor for Moody Publishers, which means I'm basically a coach for authors. I'm a mom to two teens and wife to Erik.

I'm thrilled that Megan Barfield will be an assistant coach for our team again this season! Megan is such a wonderful cheerleader and encourager for the girls, and we're so blessed to have her helping out again.

If your athlete was at practice Friday night, she should have brought home a green folder with some homework to do over the weekend. This year our high school teams will be going through a workbook with a short assignment each week. Many of the lessons will touch on things we've spoken about over previous seasons--identity, value, character, goals, etc--but this year we wanted to find a way to help the truths to implant and stick with these young women for a lifetime. Each athlete has a folder with a pre-season assessment to fill out this weekend, and we will pass out the new lesson each Monday (as long as I have it written in time!). If you have any questions about this, please reach out to me.

If your athlete wasn't here Friday, we'll get her set up with what she needs when she's back in the gym.

Last thing for now: If you know you'll miss practice or games, please let me know those dates as soon as possible. It's totally fine if things come up later, but it helps with planning to know of absences early.

Thanks so much, and please reach out if there's any way I can serve you and your family.

Warmly,

Coach Parks