Category: sports

What I learned at my first NBA game 0

What I learned at my first NBA game

It’s hard to believe, but there was a time in my childhood when I enjoyed playing basketball with friends. I even remember my mom sending me to this random basketball/sports camp growing up. After...

Weekend update 0

Weekend update

In a nutshell: it was a lot of volleyball. On Saturday morning, I was super lucky to try sitting volleyball for the very first time with a member of the USWNT. Basically, I invited...

January 2016 0

January 2016

If there was a theme to the first month of 2016, it’s work hard, play hard. It all started off with a quick New Year’s weekend trip to Spokane, Washington to celebrate a friend’s birthday. I wasn’t...

Volleyball and Crossfit 0

Volleyball and Crossfit

I just got back from a vacation to LA, and as expected, it was wonderful. LA has become my go-to vacation spot of late because of the amazing weather and beaches there (primarily Hermosa...

My First Time Covering College Men’s Volleyball 0

My First Time Covering College Men’s Volleyball

If you had told me ten years ago that I would have the opportunity to be media for Stanford Men’s Volleyball, I would have said you’re crazy. I don’t think I ever touched a...

Day 8: It is finished. 0

Day 8: It is finished.

Apologies to my readers (all 3 of you) for posting this a day late…I actually started writing this yesterday, but didn’t have a chance to finish it. So…I made it! And I didn’t get...

Day 7: One…more…day… 0

Day 7: One…more…day…

Two things are clear after 7 days of Crossfit at 6 am: There’s only one thing that I should be consistently doing at 6 am, and that is sleeping. I didn’t mind getting up...

Day 6: Just two days left in the Crossfit experiment… 0

Day 6: Just two days left in the Crossfit experiment…

Joan typically arrives late to class, and today was no exception. I guess she must like going through the warm-up exercises, because otherwise she could arrive even later and avoid it entirely. After warming...

Day 5: Olympic Lifts 101 0

Day 5: Olympic Lifts 101

Even though I woke up exhausted this morning, I was still excited to go to class…the instruction is that good. We started learning Olympic lifts today, and I think we will be doing that...