Volleyball Encouragement Quotes

He still looked apprehensive, so after a moment’s hesitation, I gave his shoulder an encouraging pat. It was the sort of innocent gesture I might make for any of my students, but most of my students didn’t possess deltoids the size of a volleyball and the density of a brick.

Such questions, and the dichotomy they presume, point to trenchant assumptions about women’s athletic bodies, and black athletic bodies in particular. Even though women have been participating “in sport” for more than a century, such diversion has always been fraught: a distraction, but not a profession. Women were often encouraged to take up sports without strong male counterparts (field hockey, volleyball) or that demanded little physical exertion (golf).