We had a good practice today. I had to reel us in a few times, but I remind you with the videos below why we do what we do, without the ball. Remind yourselves where we finished last season by looking at the newspaper clipping here. This is the first time the boys team at PVI, your tennis team, finished the season ranked. To be the first to do anything for your school should be enough incentive to put a soild effort each day at practice. We have much to gain by working hard and always thinking of the bigger picture.
I know it isn't that fun to hit balls and run in the cold. Not everything we always do will be fun. I knew that and tamed some of our activities. We know if we arrive at the end of the season and what we think will happen doesn't, that won't be fun either. We have a simple and realistic goal. We won a playoff match last year, and our goal is to win two this year. If we win two playoff matches, we will play for a NJSIAA Sectional Title, the first in your school's history. We sit at a very reasonable 60/40 possibility of winning that match. Each moment from now until this match we can increase that percentage. We could also decrease that percentage with time wasting shenanigans. We are better than that, and its my job to hold us to a representative standard. Never forget, the harder you work, the luckier you get.
