Volleyball Team

Volleyball is my favorite team sport to play - it is fast paced, non-contact, and I just have a lot of fun playing. Height helps for hitting, but coordination and timing are as important. Plus, there are other aspects to the game: setting, defending, serving.

I played a bit on an intramural team in college, and not again until I met some people at Green Lake (a park in Seattle) during the summer of 2000. We formed a team and have played in a league ever since. The league plays all year long - outdoors during the summer, and indoors the rest of the year.

The 2004 summer season is over except for the tournament in a few weeks. We did OK in our division, winning 22 games and losing 23 games. In reality we were an even 22/22 with one forfeited game because we forgot to bring the net - by the time we got a net, set up, and started playing, enough time for one game had passed. It may seem like the division was evenly matched, but that wasn't the case as most matches were definitely one-sided.

"Reeking Havoc", Summer 2004


From left to right: Lynn, Jaewha, Kathy, Todd, me, Ken. Not pictured is Mariusz who couldn't make the last game.

Our team used to be called Widespread Panic but last year the team juggled around membership and we reformed as Reeking Havoc.