Club volleyball players all over are able to relate to these 50 things:

1. Seeing your friends from other schools at tryouts like:

2. Getting done with High School Season and barely having one week off

3. Doing homework in the car on the way to practice because you literally have no other time to do it

4. That feeling when you find out you made the team you wanted:

5. That feeling when you find out you and your friends are on the same team:

6. Having your heart break when you find out your new BFF on your team lives 45 minutes away

7. Being showered with new gear when the season begins

8. Having to collect the courage to ask someone new to pepper with you

9. How quiet you all are in the beginning of the season when you don't know each other well enough yet

10. Icebreakers and Team Bonding till you die

11. Now the Coach can't shut you up (sorry coach you asked for it)

12. Wearing all of your new Club Gear to school the whole week after you get it

13. Getting home at 11 on school nights and falling asleep with homework on top of you

14. "Hey what are you doing tonight?" "Sorry, Volleyball practice" "This Weekend?" "Volleyball Tournament"

15. Getting so competitive when you face your club friends in a high school match

16. Trash Talking your friends at practice after your high school beats theirs

17. Eating dinner after a tournament at 12 p.m.

18. Walking in the tournament before the sun rises and leaving after it sets

19. You always know whose mom packs the best snacks

20. Having to pay 3.00$ for a bottle of water when you run out

21. That moment when your court is the last one to get done in pool play:

22. Getting stuck with the afternoon wave was literally the worst thing to ever happen to you

23. NEVER having plans for Valentines Day because of the Capital Hill Classic

24. When you find out your teammates are staying at the same hotel as you:

25. Getting an excuse to leave school early because of a tournament

26. The Nerves that consume your whole body when you see all the college coaches watching your court

27. Living in a hotel bed for 9/10 weekends from January to May

28. The face you make when you make it to the finals after a day of playing for 10 hours and lose:

29. Hearing your parents yell from the stands like:

30. Missing basically every social function on the weekends

31. Going to bed at 7 p.m. whenever you get the chance because you are just that tired

32. When you get to travel to a new city for the first time with your teammates

33. Checking your phone after playing all day and still not having any text messages

34. Spending too much money on t-shirts you never wear

35. The feeling of excitement when you got to a tournament and they sold nike products

36. Feeling overwhelmed with choices when a concession stand offered more than just hotdogs

37. Seeing all your teammates dressed up for the first time and wondering who these people were and what they did with your friends

38. The feeling of dreading going to a practice after your team didn't do well at your tournament

39. "Who is better friends, me and teammates, or my parents and their parents?"

40. The group messages will never stop

41. Immediately gaining 10 followers on every social media platform

42. Trying your best to make the crappy hotel wifi work so you could actually be productive

43. Dreading the final tournament because you don't want it to be over

44. Going back to high school ball and accidentally saying all your club chants

45. Hating that one team so much that if you don't beat them it is the end of the world

46. Winning your first tournament is basically a huge milestone in your life

47. When all your friends start committing to colleges and you're just so proud of them

48. Having a million grad parties to go to from all the people you have met

49. Learning that basically everyone knows everyone in the volleyball world

50. Having your teammates turn into friends who turn into family. There is no better sport or family to be apart of.