It's super easy to look at others and say , oh , she's going to this school or she won this tournament , and it really is just hurtful to yourself and does nothing but hurt you and . Um , slow down your process as a person because everyone's constantly growing like being a sophomore in college , I still have so much room to grow and I know that now , but growing up I didn't realize that and I thought I was already plateauing and looking at others , it was definitely really challenging . Hi , I'm Macy Ballard .
I think the biggest thing for me , and I keep reminding myself is never settle . every walk of life , there's something like you could be reaching towards , and I think that's helped me really progress like as an athlete , but also as a person . Just in any aspect of life just thinking like , yes , I accomplished this , but now I can like try to level up and get to another level .
every walk of life , there's something like you could be reaching towards , and I think that's helped me really progress like as an athlete , but also as a person . Just in any aspect of life just thinking like , yes , I accomplished this , but now I can like try to level up and get to another level . One of the most important things that I focus on my sport is just outside of practicing , just lifting and really putting emphasis on being strong .
I think that's definitely my strong suit is just my strength and so just like taking that and finding like that's like what really like sets me apart from others and just trying to like . Progress myself as far as possible . Some challenges I faced in volleyball is just learning to deal with failure .
In college , the game is definitely more physical , so learning to adjust with that just is like everyone you're playing is much bigger and stronger , so just learning to . Adjust with who you're playing and um it's definitely helped me find my sense of identity when I'm playing just being more aggressive as a person I think in a younger level and juniors you're able to kind of get away with being less on the strong side and then in college everyone's lifting every day everyone has that strength and just figuring out what works for you . It's really important .
