Hola Hombres

The Full Time training centre girls of Team Canada took a little trip down to Costa Rica to train/scrimmage against Team Costa Rica.  Sometimes we get scared of the food in foreign countries cause it can make us siiicckkkk and no one likes to play volleyball with a sick tummy....so we talk a little bit about our fun food preferences haha. Enjoy :)

Making Acupuncture Look Easy

Recovery is important for every athlete. Every Friday night after practice, we jump in the cold tubs, then the hot tubs, then get massaged, then sometimes get needles stuck into us (aka acupuncture).  Sometimes we get stuck in the clinic fairly late, so to speed up the process I just figured why not help out and take some of the needles out of my roomie Beth myself. She only shed a little bit of blood haha....

Quebec trip to check out CIS Nationals

Wow its been a while since I posted a blog! The whole collapsed lung thing combined with surgery, recovery, rehab, its been a couple of long and tough weeks! Luckily, I'm almost back to 100% with training so I'm feeling a lot better :)

We took a trip with our coaches to Quebec City, Quebec, to check out the Canadian University volleyball nationals. Check out some of the highlights here, including some game footage from the semis and the Finals. Congrats to the UBC Thunderbirds for their 4th consecutive National Championship!!!! Good work ladies!!!

Collapsed Lung

This post is basically self explanatory. Basically, my lung collapsed during cardio training one day, but we didnt figure that out until a couple days later....

Trip to Thunder Bay, Ontario!

One of the best parts of playing on Team Canada volleyball is the travelling!!!  So far, I haven't gotten a chance to travel outside of Canada with Team Canada, but this past weekend, I went on my second trip within Canada, to Thunder Bay, Ontario!  

I explain it to some degree in the video, but basically we were there to run some clinics with local middle school/high school players, check out a Lakehead University vs Ottawa University volleyball game, and then we got the chance to play Lakehead University. Heres a little peak into how the trip was...

Oh and ps - how sweet are my video editing skills now?? Haha....still working on them...

The Gritty Grotto!

We work out 5 times a week in this underground cave!  Chest, arms, legs, shoulders, back, all once a week....and throw in a little cardio now and then. Check it out!

Finding out how we deal with stress....

In every match, there are going to be stressful moments. Whether your winning, losing, or its a tight game, how you handle stress and adjust to it can make the difference between being a winner and a loser!  We're so lucky to have an amazing sports psychologist who we work with. Every week, we talk about how we can perform better in practice, set goals, how we can better motivate ourselves and also, when we get into a stressful situation, how do we deal with it.  Adrienne (our sports psych) attached these weird little cables to our earlobes, our fingers, our head and the back of our necks to monitor how we dealt with different computer simulations that put us in different stressful situations!  Beth (another Team Canada player) helped me out by filming!  We couldn't film the whole thing but check out all the cords connecting my head to the computer...