Okay....my bad I've been a little MIA with the blog but not because nothing has been happening in the volleyball world! On the contrary so much stuff is going on that I've been pre-occupied. Thats going to change dont worry :) The biggest news of the week was that our Olympic Qualifier, which has been scheduled for January 2012 for probably a year now, has been moved to May 2012.
This is obviously a massive change in our schedules, not only for training purposes, but for funding as well. We only had enough funding to get us through to January, now with the change, we won't get paid for the January-May months. Which makes training very difficult. If we can't find Pro contracts, then we will continue to train in Winnipeg but we'll only train in 1 time per day (instead of our usual 2 times per day) because we will need to get jobs to survive (food is kinda important when your an athlete). Our coach has decided we will train in the mornings come January, and the afternoons will be set aside for employment. Imagine this, the most important year for training, and we have to cut it down due to a lack of funding. Oh well, on the bright side maybe my hips will finally heal and won't be all bruised and cut up from diving on the gym floor all the time. No but seriously, we'll find a way to manage. Check out this little video of Jen and I discussing the change of dates!
