February 21 - March 1 (DAVRAA Week)
Heyyo guys!! It's been a month since I last posted here on my blog!! Wow, how i miss writing about my day!! So, I'm writing again...
So, It's the DAVRAA week!! The regionals was held in Tagum City about an hour away from Davao City. I was really excited and at the same time very nervous about the event since I know I haven't been training properly for the past few months! We only have 2 days training in Tagum before the games starts.
On the first day of the games I was really hyper and excited to see again my friends whom I only see during this time of the year! Sadly, most of them already graduated in High School and there's only a few left. After a long wait, there goes my first regional game of the season. My first opponent comes from Compostela Valley, actually all of my teammates' opponent are ComVal. So gladly, we got greater skills than them so not even one of them got the chance to win against us. Next in line is Mati, the greatest opponent of all! hahaha. My opponent is not new to me, I played against her last regionals in ComVal and won in just 2 sets! But this year was different, I haven't been practicing a lot and it's obvious that she really prepared so I was kinda nervous! Bc I was so tense, my play is very bad! I won the first but she got the 2nd set! We were the last game of the day so almost everyone was watching our third set, the most thrilling set ever! I was not in my best condition so it was a close fight, ended the game with me winning with 19-21! Can you imagine that? She almost beat me!! Thank God, I was able to withstand the game even though I was already exhausted due to lack of stamina! After the game, my coaches got really angry at me even though I won the game they told me It was really a poor performance from me and they were really nagging that I began to cry bc I realized I almost lost because I was over confident about myself & that angered me.. but even though they were pretty harsh I am still thankful that they are still there to support me all along, for being patient with me even though I get pretty lazy most of the time in training.. My coaches are the best!!!! :)
After that, it's already the last day for DAVRAA!! Wc means Championships! So my championship game is against my teammate, Ipay, whom I also got to play with last DCAA and ended up second so I was really nervous and already set my mind that this is going to be my game. I'm going to win this. I'm not gon' accept another defeat from her again.
She won the first set. Even though we're just teammates we still play like we're not friends, we have our own coaches with us. Second set, my mind was in ease bc in the first set I was so tense that I couldn't perform my strokes properly. I got the set point first (20), but she scored again so we got a Deuce. It was 22 all when something terrible happened! I got injured during the game!!! WTF!!!! I want to finish the game but my knee gave up and it was really painful because I dived in the court with my knee first to the ground then my body, can u feel me? it's like the most painful thing everrr. So I was just lying inside the court crying my heart out because I can't defend my title wc is the DAVRAA Champion, I really wanted to finish it but my coach stopped me. He forced me to just retire in the game. And then, after my knee got better he talked to me and told me to stop crying bc it wasn't worth it and it was my choice to not practice properly and regularly.. so yeah he was scolding me while I was crying in pain. But he was correct, it was all my fault. I was pretty relax about the game knowing that my opponent is training very hard! So bc of it, I just accepted my defeat. Me and Ipay are very good friends, we're enemies inside the court but not outside the court!! We're pretty much like best friends I could say.. haha we even took pictures after the game! =))
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(I don't have the pic in my laptop so I'm just gon' give you the link!)
