I Need to Rant
For the past couple of days I've been feeling really discouraged with volleyball because my team lost a tournament way worse than we should have. I'm not saying we should have won (though we could have), I just know we should have done much better than we did.
A lot of the reason I feel so discouraged is because I'm really frustrated with my teammates. All of their attitudes are absolutely terrible (Some worse than others). If they lose one point, they act like they lost the entire tournament. I'm one of the only people on my team who is constantly talking and encouraging my teammates. They never ever listen to me though, no matter what. It's like theres a f-ing brick wall between all of us.
The player who has the second worse attitude is our libero, and since she's constantly on the court her mood easily affects the mood of everyone else, so she's the one I always try to encourage. Most of the time she gives me a cold shoulder, and at the beginning of the season she would actually snap at me a lot, but she's learned not to do that.
During one of the games we lost, I started to tear up because my words weren't getting through to any of my teammates, and it was really frustrating me (I cry a lot when I'm frustrated). After my libero missed one of the passes, I went up to her and told her that she'll get the next one, and then one of my setters (the person on my team who undeniably has the worst attitude) snapped at me and told me to just leave the libero alone.
This just made the whole situation worse for me, and I actually started crying (because I'm an overly emotional teenage girl lmao). I think all of my teammates think I'm a crybaby now (and I'm pretty sure they all think I was crying because we lost to a team we could have completely crushed, even though I wasn't). Although there are many other reasons I feel dispirited about volleyball from that tournament, that was probably one of them that did the most.
I'm sorry if this was a stupid rant, I just really needed to say (or type) it.
A lot of the reason I feel so discouraged is because I'm really frustrated with my teammates. All of their attitudes are absolutely terrible (Some worse than others). If they lose one point, they act like they lost the entire tournament. I'm one of the only people on my team who is constantly talking and encouraging my teammates. They never ever listen to me though, no matter what. It's like theres a f-ing brick wall between all of us.
The player who has the second worse attitude is our libero, and since she's constantly on the court her mood easily affects the mood of everyone else, so she's the one I always try to encourage. Most of the time she gives me a cold shoulder, and at the beginning of the season she would actually snap at me a lot, but she's learned not to do that.
During one of the games we lost, I started to tear up because my words weren't getting through to any of my teammates, and it was really frustrating me (I cry a lot when I'm frustrated). After my libero missed one of the passes, I went up to her and told her that she'll get the next one, and then one of my setters (the person on my team who undeniably has the worst attitude) snapped at me and told me to just leave the libero alone.
This just made the whole situation worse for me, and I actually started crying (because I'm an overly emotional teenage girl lmao). I think all of my teammates think I'm a crybaby now (and I'm pretty sure they all think I was crying because we lost to a team we could have completely crushed, even though I wasn't). Although there are many other reasons I feel dispirited about volleyball from that tournament, that was probably one of them that did the most.
I'm sorry if this was a stupid rant, I just really needed to say (or type) it.
18-21, F