Connor's Blog

 Since my pre-season ended around a week or two ago I have had and am still going to have a lot of free time on my hands and some days I don't know what I want to do. And this hasn't really been a problem or anything but it is something that I have been thinking about and never really thought about before. because when I have been in this situation before I would always have something to do when I was at home but this is not the case anymore.  Some of the things that I would do when I was at home and I had plenty of time on my hands to do whatever I wanted. Like workout, play video games, watching movies, hang with my friends/ siblings, or even do something with my parents but I am not always able to do those things now that I am here at college and pretty far away from home. And some of those things do not really interest me as much as they used to now that I am at college. The main things that I do now that I am an athlete here at school are lift, practice, and hang out with...

 As you may or may not know I play Volleyball here at North Central College. And that is basically the only reason that I am here. But I am glad that I came here at least so far. If I didn't come here I would probably be at some crappy school. But now that I am here, I know I made the right decision.  So far volleyball for me has not been as difficult as I thought it would at the collegiate level. So far I have been able to keep up with most of the others players and I like to think that I have a good chance of playing a decent amount this year. Or at least that is my hope. But if that doesn't happen that is fine with me but most people would agree that it is not desired. And some of my teammates have given me the confidence that I can take the number two spot on the team for my position.  But I will not know until January which is when our season starts what my position on the team is. But if don't get the spot on the team that I want and I end up on the bench a lot more...