THE FUTURE OF YOUTH VOLLEYBALL with Ginger Hineline

Well, I have, um, played volleyball my entire life.

Um, I grew up in a small town in, in, uh, Wheatland, Wyoming, and then w- had the opportunity to play in college, had the opportunity to coach at the Division I level, assistant coach.

And, um, and then I just have been coaching, training, starting volleyball clubs, directing volleyball clubs, you know, my entire life.

And so I'm really passionate about developing, um, players.

And the youth is important.

I mean, this is where they start playing volleyball.

This is their first opportunity to see if they enjoy p- the sport, and I think it's just highly im- highly important to me, 'cause I just, I love the game and love to train and coach.

That's awesome.

Yeah, it is highly important, and having my daughter go through it now, I'm seeing all the flaws and the areas for improvement, so I'm excited to see what people-

Yeah

... like you, you're doing and, and we'll get into all that.

I, I just wanna follow up.

Wyoming, not, I don't know if that's the hotbed of volleyball at least, but-

It is

... tell, tell me.

[laughs]

It's gotten better.

It's-

Okay

...

I mean, okay, so yeah.

I, I played, uh, my freshman year in college was in 1985, so we're talking way, way back in the day.

Wow.

Um, and they had zero club teams in the-

Wow