Freshman Blog: September

On September 13 I attended the Stockton University’s Women’s Volleyball team match. The team played against Montclair State University in Big Blue and was sponsored by Stockton Athletics. The game started at 7 o’clock but we arrived at about 10 to 7 in order to get seats. There was a fair amount of parents there to support their daughters, as well as a student section. My friends and I sat in the second row because we had never been to a volleyball match and were unsure of what was going to happen.

The match started and the girls took the court. It was surprisingly intense as people started cheering. There were two people sitting in front of us that explained the game to us throughout the match. Volleyball works that when the serving team loses the serve the other team receives a point. This is called rally scoring. Each team gets three hits to get the ball over the net, and a block does not count for one of the hits. The game consists of three sets each to 25 points, or if it gets to 24-24 then a team has to win by 2 points.

As the game progressed the crowd was getting super into the match, especially the student section. One student started screaming at a girl on the Montclair team that he apparently knew, seeing as he called her by her name. He would yell things at her such as “Natalia, the ball goes over the net,” or “You can’t hide from me Natalia” when she was not on the court. It was so much fun because the everyone was there to support the girls and they were playing amazingly. They won the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th sets and therefore won the match. They have multiple matches throughout the season. I honestly cannot wait to see another match.