Volleyball
The Volleyball activity was brought into Birch Rock in 1989 by Mike Mattson and Dave Jenkins. At the time, Mike and Dave were both playing on their high school team and were spending much of their lives just peppering<ref>To pepper the volleyball is just to bump or set it back and forth to each other and then occassionally spike, without jumping, the ball at the other and have him try to dig the hit out and recover. This has always been the best method for learning the basic skills without the net and jumping.</ref> the Volleyball around. They delivered a written proposal for the program to Toby Brewster and explained that the equipment needed would certainly be inexpensive compared to other programs (frugality was important in 1989).
Volleyball is certainly an activity that needs to be taught by someone who has learned the regular way played at colleges and in the Olympics rather than the family barbecue 'just hit it over the net' method.
The volleyball net still comes to Beach Day every summer.
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