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Some people questioned all the marks up and down your forearms but you were just in season. And eventually, it stopped hurting.

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In all of my international volleyball experience, I never qualified for the Olympics. I like to say, though I can’t tell for sure, that I would have been an Olympian had I developed my mental game at a younger age.

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Here are 10 ways in which being 6’5” in a 5’5” average world has made my life better.

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Finally it was our turn to play. The guy who drove the pickup truck walked over to the ref and counted out something like five hundred bucks. “What the hell?” I asked one of my teammates.

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If you played volleyball you lived by a specific volleyball code.