BSHS Country Week Girls Volleyball 2001

Ok then, Girls Volleyball. Lets go back and reminisce on some of those good times we had. The bus trip to Perth, there’s something we won’t forget in the near future. From singing to laughing. To the shy conversations that took place (between the girls and the boys teams) and how can we forget Mark and Josh’s chant? “It’s raining Bunno, Hallelujah, It’s raining Bunno, Oh Yeah.” (So did you pick the song???) Little did we know then that another school would then steal ‘our’ chant at the Closing Ceremony.

Then it was time for the games to begin. We played a total of nine games including our final for fifth/sixth place. Out of these games we won 3 very convincingly, with all other games being very close. We ended up 6th out of the 9 teams in B grade.

Throughout the week our games improved. We were actually playing volleyball not tennis. By Friday we had the game sussed. We had control, we were talking to each other (learning that ‘yours’ in volleyball is a swear-word.) and not to mention ‘the slappy thing’ to keep the team motivated.

Our highlights of the week were: I would have to say ice-skating followed by a team dinner. I don’t think a group of girls has laughed so much over a dinner at Sizzlers. Many stories where shared that night, laughing and joking at other people’s bad luck and stupidity. And then when there was nothing else to laugh about, we laughed at the way another person laughed, (eg Sarah trying to laugh when she only had half a voice, and Chelsea choking out a story and laughter at the same time.) Another time being the first game we won. It went to 3 sets, so we were all tense. The game was pretty close, we were all relieved when it was over and excited that we had actually won a game.

Before I go I would like to thank Miss McLean for being a great coach. She put in a lot of time and effort for us to get up to Perth. To the rest of the team, you all did well. Also good luck to the girls next year, show everyone that Volleyball IS a REAL sport!!!

An article by Shelly 'Pink' Compton from the 2001 Kingia magazine.