TOPIC: SCHOOL LIFE
End of a Great Volleyball Season
by Cathryn Jiang
During the volleyball season, the
Wildcats
team
of
Shanghai
Livingston American School played
against some other teams of other
international schools in Shanghai.
The SLAS Wildcats team tried their
best and enjoyed playing in the
competitions and ended the season
with the last tournament on Sunday,
October 19, 2014.
could be one of some good teams
they met this year who had strong
serves and good cooperation. Last
but not least, Josh thinks that their
team can improve more on
communicating with each other
during games which they would have
less chance to crush into each other.
“The team we had was strong this
year,” Jennifer Jiang, a ninth grader
who is interested in volleyball, says.
“Also, even though we lost games
during the season, everyone was
enthusiastic and had lots of fun,”
Jennifer added, “it’s just that we
probably need to practice more with
each other & learn how to cooperate.”
“The volleyball season was very
good,” Josh Tseng, a tenth grader who
is also a part of the volleyball team,
says, “we learned how to cooperate
and we had a lot of fun during both
competitions and practices.” Josh
also added, “The opponents we had
were strong, they had good
cooperation and strong serves.”
At last, the volleyball season that
lasted from the first quarter to the
Josh Tseng is a student athlete who beginning of the second quarter
joined in the high school Wildcats finally ended. The Wildcats team,
volleyball team this year. Josh both high school boys and girls, did
enjoyed playing volleyball; however, their best during the games and
he had never joined any school teams practices, and enjoyed playing on the
before. Therefore, he decided to try team. In conclusion, even though the
to join the team this year of SLAS teams did not win all of the games,
Wildcats. Josh really appreciated his the student athletes in the teams
teammates because if he makes a enjoyed themselves and are hoping
mistake, his team would encourage to get better results for the volleyball
him instead of blaming him of competitions next year.
everything. The SLAS Wildcats team
has met some strong opponents this
year. According to Josh, SAS Puxi