Lydia's volleyball highlights

We know how this goes by now, right?  Three month, you hear nothing from me, and then BAM! Six month old news is posted!  But let's look at this with a long-term perspective. I'm recording history.  As long as it's recorded, the "when" is not so important.  If you want to know what's happen in the Wedan Family in the present moment, text me.  You will probably hear back from me within 48 hours.

As with everything else, we didn't know what to expect in our new community when it came to volleyball. Lydia was ready to take on the challenge and she tried out the first week at her new school.  There were lots of girls and they put together four teams, and a waitlist.  At her last school, they barely had enough girls to form one team. 

Much like football, it felt like whiplash.  The teams were ranked A-1, A-2, B-1, and B-2. 

 

Yes, really.  

That's what we've come to call "The Woodbury Way". Our prior experience was disorganization and disengagement.  "The Woodbury Way" is spreadsheet central and over-the-top engagement.  But I digress...

For those of us who don't know much about volleyball, there is the regular volleyball season in the fall in Minnesota that kids play at school - or rec league before middle school.  And then there is this thing called "club volleyball" (or JO - Junior Olympic volleyball), that runs it's season through the winter months.  We have never tried JO volleyball for 3 reasons: (1) covid, (2) cost, and (3) commitment level.  Yikes - JO volleyball runs the same season as wrestling.

I had already done my research, and, knowing Lydia's passion for the sport, decided we would try JO volleyball this year if she managed to make A team.  She didn't know that, so no pressure!  

Lydia and volleyball are an unlikely pair that go together like pineapple on pizza.  My 5-foot-nothing daughter made A-2!  

Woodbury keeps middle school in-house, so they exclusively played the A teams from the three other middle schools in our district and her team went 3 and 3.

It is so much fun to watch Lydia live in action on the court.  I loved every minute of it last fall, and I'm currently loving every minute of club volleyball.  Which will come in a later post.

Much later.