1st Place Volleyball July 2010 : Page 6
player spotlight growing up playing volleyball? Then volleyball came around, and I just fell in love with it. By the time I got to high school, I had to pick one sport between basketball and volleyball, and I just had a greater passion for volleyball. To this day, I’m still going, and I love the sport so much! passion for volleyball. To this day, I’m still going, and I love the sport so much! P: What advice would you give to young girls who aspire to have similar experi-ences as you? KD: I would say just keep working hard, and never give up on your dreams. Make sure you have your academic side up to par because that’s one thing you don’t want to be losing on, just because of school. Take care of school, and then let everything thing else just take its course in volleyball. 6 Phenom | July 2010 P: What future experiences do you look forward to/hope for? KD: Well, before I graduate from Hawai’i, I would like to see if we can make it back to the NCAA Championships and hopefully bring a title back to the program and the state. As far as my post-college aspirations go, there is a possible goal to make it on the U.S. Women’s National Team. If that doesn’t happen, then I’d like to do as much as I can professionally overseas. P: Are there any experiences that stick out in your mind from whenever you were KD: For me, it would be playing club ball. For high school or school ball in Hawai’i, we didn’t get to travel much because Hawai’i is pretty much isolated from the states, so we looked forward to club tournaments each year. I loved the big season-ending tournaments at the end of the year, where I had the opportunity to meet my future college teammates or even the ath-letes that play across the net from me now. I met them all from playing club. It was nice to get that experience to play against them or with them. For my fi nal year at club, we came in sec-ond in the silver division, and normally we don’t make it past the top-eight, so that was a great accomplishment for us! P: If you could go back to any moment during this past season and relive that moment again, what would that be? KD: It would defi nitely be to play against Penn State one more time; to make it to the NCAA Championship when we had that moment, and come out with a win this time. It would be great to try to relive that moment and know what you did wrong and just fi x those little mistakes. ■
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