I transferred to UMM this year and I was anxious. I wouldn't know my teammates and I wouldn't know what the coaches expected; I wasn't ready to be a freshman all over again. But I have to say, after two weeks of practice, I feel at home and everybody on campus and the team has been helpful and friendly.
Our practices have been intense. It's a challenge to learn everyone's playing style. But the players from last year have made us (the new players) feel part of the team and that's helped us adjust quickly. I thank them for that.
In practice we have been doing a lot of defensive drills like passing and blocking. We have touched some on hitting and lots of 6-on-6 drills.
Participating in Feed My Starving Children was fun and it made me feel good to volunteer my time to help the less fortunate. We filled containers with dried food. We made a contest out of it which made it fun. We were divided into teams and had a race to see who could fill the most containers in a certain amount of time.
We have less than a week to go before we see how we do against outside competition. We play Macalester on Wednesday. Our team is getting better every day and we can feel ourselves improving as a team. It just takes time and practice. The preseason has been a lot of work but a lot of fun, too. I have big expectations for our team this year. Go Cougars!!!!
Megan Theis
