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A volleyball coach runs a season packed into ten weeks, with matches three times a week, film sessions, a rotation to manage, and a gym she has to ...

Club volleyball runs from November to June, which is longer than most professional seasons. Weekend tournaments in convention centers, four matches...

Volleyball senior night happens in a gym, which changes the whole feel of it. The lights are on, the crowd is close enough to hear individual voice...

Practice towels are the least glamorous item a program buys and one of the few that gets used literally every single day. Nobody posts about them. ...

Every swim team has the same pile behind the blocks. Forty identical towels in a heap, and nobody can find theirs. It is the most solvable problem ...

A softball coach runs practice in the wind in March, keeps a book, manages a pitching rotation, answers texts from parents at ten at night, and oft...

Travel softball is the season that does not get a banquet. No school assembly, no yearbook page, no announcement over the PA. Just eleven months of...

Softball senior night usually happens on a spring afternoon with the sun low behind the outfield fence and half the crowd standing along the third ...

Booster clubs have a hard job. Raise money without annoying the same forty families over and over, and do it with volunteers who already have jobs....

A pep rally is a hard room. Eight hundred teenagers in a gym who did not choose to be there, a PA system that echoes, and a student council trying ...

Rugby sides tend to be tighter than most teams, partly because of the sport and partly because they usually have to fight for the field time, the f...

We make these in Baltimore, which is a reasonable claim to authority on lacrosse keepsakes. The sport grew up here. Half the people in our building...