 Hey you guys welcome to my live stream. Today we're going to be doing a women's volleyball league. I haven't played women's and quite some time in a more structured environment. So I really wanted to live stream for you guys so that way you can see some women's game and you can see me play women's on this net. I hope that you guys are ready and it's going to be super super exciting. So right now everybody's checking and taking their team photos. Let me show you. Everybody's taking their team photos right now. Matching shirts. My team name is the Girl Scouts. So right now they're adjusting the nets and fixing the nets so that way we are ready. So every team has matching shirts. I'm not wearing my matching shirt right now but a lot of people are. So it's going to be super exciting. Are you excited? I'm super excited. I'm trying to figure out what court we're going to be on. It's going to be it's going to be lit. So I hope you guys really look forward to seeing some good stuff. I'm going to go ahead and start hitting the wall and I'm warming up my arms. So yeah feel free to chat in the comments. Talk to each other. Give some tryout tips. Comment on some of the things that you do see so that way we can better ourselves from volleyball. Let's go Girl Scouts. Let me find out what court we're on and then I can let you know where we're going. Don't mind me guys. Let's get game time. We're going to go ahead and warm this up because I feel like she better hurt. You guys good? We're all good over here. This game's starting. Seems better. Again it may be you guys. So we can see a little bit better. Oh okay. I'm tired y'all. Tired fam. Tired fam. Feels like there ain't no AC out there man. Did you see those spikes though? I can drink my water at the same time. Yeah I'm playing on doing some hitting things. Working on it right now. Finding somebody to help me film because it's kind of hard to film at the same time as hit. At the same time as toss myself a ball. So yeah but if you guys don't already know or if you're new to my channel I was traditionally a middle hitter or a middle blocker. I spent a lot of my time in high school blocking the ball but then I realized hey girl you have this nasty arm. So then as I started playing club and college I started becoming outside and I really dedicated myself on killing the ball. So that's how I got here. Hard working dedication. So when I went home I worked on my approach. Every time I get in practice I would get my hands on the ball. I would just continue to get my hands on the ball. Keep doing it. We're about to play our second game and then I'm trying to cool down because I put a lot of hard work. I got a twist down up here. It's not baby these are all me. I just have really long nails right now. They're gel. They're just really long. I used to play with acrylic. No bueno. How was the game girl? All right girl. I need some AC. Brad what was our score? 25-16? We did good. Me being a libero. Are you guys talking about me being a libero? Because we can dead that. I can tell you one thing Coco's not and Coco is not a libero. I'm not. Who's an 05 baby? Please tell me. Lord. Lord girl. They even talk about their age. Somebody said they're an 05 baby girl. I don't even want to tell you when I was born. Somebody said they're an 05 baby girl. I'm going to 05. Really? I think an 05 I was in like sixth grade. 25. I was born in 93. Yeah. Yeah. I was born in 93. You look like you could be 25. Yeah. You know what 32 is the new 25. Take it girl. Take it. Moisturize. You have to moisturize girl. That's all you do. I take skin care very seriously. Yeah. I go to a dermatologist. I get my skin care. I wear sunscreen every day. I drink my water. I take it serious. I take serious girl. I'm trying to look young. I'm trying to look super young. Do you know who Gabrielle Union is? I'm trying to look like her when I'm older. She is beautiful. I'm trying to look like her my whole life. Let's do it. Next game. Let me get you guys in a good position. We get it. Overseas a lot of men play volleyball. I would say predominantly out of the United States. Mostly men play volleyball. I would say that. Many women do not have a career outside of the United States when it comes to volleyball because volleyball is more of an international sport. So it's played all around. So I personally think there's a lot of recognition with men volleyball and I think it's daresay more popular on the world west too. And yes volleyball can be played by anyone. I think that anybody, any gender, religion, race, ethnicity should be able to play volleyball and that is why daresay I am here to show you more representation. There's representation everywhere. There are Hispanic volleyball players, Asian volleyball players, black volleyball players. There are so many different people who play volleyball and can be joined by this board. So I really want to change your perspective and thinking that it is primarily one nationality because it is not. When you think about on the international world scales there are so many people who from different countries who come together to enjoy this game and a lot of different sports. So that is why the Olympics was formed for us to be able to come together and share the love of sport and not to hate and all of that. So that's why I really want you guys to see that and that's why I'm happy that you guys get to see me here because I've been playing volleyball in a long time and I want you to see the love that there is here. There's love for everyone here and I want you to love it no matter who you are girl or boy black or white Asian it doesn't matter Hispanic we are all here to love the sport we are here with love we are here with love no matter what you are where you are what you see there will always be love here for you especially with me so there will always be a place for you here on my channel there'll be a place for you here in the sport come and see me you know and I can't express that enough I cannot express the love there is enough okay so I don't want you to think that you don't belong there are many different circumstances I have been in my life where I was the only person of color on the volleyball court um and I remember to myself this sport was made for me it was made for everyone so even though you may be in a predicament where you feel like you are alone you are not you are not you can even look through here we have so many different nationalities playing here we have people who are Asian people who are Hispanic people who are black who are white of different ages um we have people who are young people who are older different religions come from different countries and you know what we all come together a lot because we love this sport and that's what we bond over so yeah but we played the heck out of that game I'm actually a little tired um I'm a little tired but um we have another game coming up so I'm trying to conserve my energy by drinking this green hopefully it will help hopefully it will help what was you trying to say to me talking about didn't you hear what it said my mama told me if you got it flown it super chat oh thank you I really appreciate you that math and what is that math or G thank you I really I really hope that I shared some wisdom with you today I hope that you can really see from that perspective I I don't want you to feel like you're alone you're not you're really not um there's a place for you always here always here so as long as I'm making videos on the channel which hopefully is forever there will always be a place for you to play volleyball come together and meet me build friendships from the channel I really do hope you guys build friendships from the channel so thank you math there's you for the super chat I appreciate that thank you thank you for really good I hope this really really kind of really really really touched you because there's a place for you there will always be a place for you there may be times where you go to a tournament and you feel like you're the only person there and you feel out of place but you have to remember deep in your heart that that you belong you belong you belong there um and there are people like you who play volleyball there are people like you who share the same interests of you and not just volleyball people who like art people who like dance people who like a different sport people who like to study people like science and all of that people there are people out there there's a community for you so that is really why I started my channel to really show you that community and really put love into the sport because there's love here y'all what position am I I've been playing a little bit a lot of everything lately I've been playing a little bit of everything lately but um um I've been primarily outside here primarily outside right now I'm gonna put you guys down for a second because I gotta I gotta get some uh I gotta collect some um let's see if I can fix this tripod um probably not I'm trying to collect some um thank you you belong y'all I remember I mean I remember when I was a kid and I was starting out with a sport and I thought to myself and I felt out of place and I had to remind myself that you know what you have you and I didn't want to feel like I was out of place and you know even on my team sometimes you could feel out of place and I know what that feels like but you have to find your community and when you find them the love is there so that is what I want to do I want to create communities within you guys so you have a place to come to and talk to people and with the like and kindness and um yeah I can make some more videos about that things that I love the most like the ultimate most is that you guys talk to each other I really like that I want you guys to find friendships it's not really any good position that's great for beginners you really have to try something that you like and just go for it we're waiting on this next game to finish I'm really taking the time to cool down let's see there looks like there's another ringer out here so that means that I gotta go out there uh harder than I just did I gotta go out there really hard you belong what is the position right back it doesn't matter Stacey even if you feel like there are girls are better you have a position you have the right to be there you have to really work hard to up yourself in the position but you have the right to be there and you can do it girl you can do it uh-huh no matter what you belong no matter what so that's why on my channel you see a lot of diversity um you see a lot of you see boys you see girls um you see a lot of different ethnicities or religions because I want you to see the diversity because we as a world we are we are people and I have never met I have never met someone in volleyball that has not shared that love or that I have not loved because we love this together let me see how much battery I have you guys hold on we seem to be good so my whole team is resting right now um rehiring our body okay so club volleyball is not necessarily with the school it's with a different organization to teach you how to play volleyball a lot of club volleyball organizations are self-funded which means that players will pay to play um they can be they can be quite expensive but they do give you more information about volleyball league school to you could and also if you want to go play college club volleyball is a really great way to get recruited I would recommend going to your summer workout a lot of teams are already starting to have tryouts which means that summer workouts are over um but that's okay there's Wreckley's is ymca's recreation center church leagues I would try to get involved get your hands on a ball as much as possible that's okay Elizabeth you all you have to do is keep practicing and get your approach down and get your spike down because you know what when I first started spiking I feel like everybody on my team is better than me I came from the predicament of not knowing how to play at all and what I did was I didn't give up on myself because I knew that if I gave up on myself then it was over so don't give up on yourself don't give up on yourself by the way what's your favorite flavor of gatorade my favorite is this green apple ah it's my favorite I can't really tell you John but all I know is you should really not play with it because you can be you can make it worse pick up with the bomb y'all oh my god I found out about a couple years ago Angela I play primarily outside hitter um but I do a little bit of everything in these kind of leagues orange is good too oh yeah yeah lily um meshes math and math or g privately because I don't want the number on this on the chat because you don't want to randomize pop it into their snapchat privacy is everything guys when you hit the volleyball over your head with two posts this is a legal hit now in college yes in high school it really depends on the the the high school that you're in um because there are certain things that aren't illegal I know you guys tell me do that I'll tell you guys what the name is I live in north Carolina Amanda I live here come see me girl the game's almost over maybe I should snack are those gif power-ups uh I wish I had one right now never too late to think of my college charlotte north Carolina make club right now have you started recording yourself time is it this one 8 30 touch my body it depends on where league you're playing in if you're playing in college that's legal um if you're playing in I used to live in Pennsylvania math or g yeah yeah yeah Mia you should record your stuff starting to play volleyball um keep a record of recording so you should start recording your games um if you can get some shots of you doing different skills compile them together so that way you can get your uh take I used to live in Pennsylvania well just tell the best thing to do is try to talk to them um a lot of times when we are feel like we're not missing we're not understood it's a misunderstanding um so I would try to talk to them um whenever there's a good play go hey good game you know something like that just just kind of goes a long way we're about to play our next game I really hope that you enjoyed this live stream um make sure you share this with somebody you think you would need it if you want more inspiration from me follow me on instagram and that's coco.bolly so that way you can get more all right I'm gonna go play this one because my phone's gonna die and I don't want to cut out middle of the way all right you guys ready see you guys later bye bye continue to talk in the comments if you'd like to okay bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye