“I wouldn’t say that I lost the passion for my sport, but I was recognizing that my body was getting tired and that I was ready to start to do other things, and maybe take a step back from it. But I think that I’ve always been enjoying volleyball. I think that my time came to an end when I was playing with my teammates for a long time, and then I had to play with a different group in a different setting. It was all different. I wouldn’t say that I necessarily ever got burned out at my sport. But after I graduated and I wasn’t playing collegiate volleyball anymore, I found ways to really still be involved in different ways like coaching or just going to different [events], like the girls’ games and stuff like that. Doing those things, like coaching, really showed me how passionate I was about my sport and how there’s different ways to show it. I was really fortunate in high school that my volleyball coach taught me how to coach other people, and so that was always something in the back of my mind. And once I went to college, it wasn’t the same because I wasn’t playing with my high school teammates anymore. So coaching was a great outlet. And just finding different ways to give back to the volleyball community, like running tournaments and things like that. I’ve always been really thankful for the volleyball community because I’ve been able to make friends, play beach [volleyball], and meet new people and different things like that. I wouldn’t say that my passion necessarily burned out but my role in the sport changed. And maybe that’s why I never burnt out, because I was always involved,” Varsity Boys’ Volleyball Assistant Coach Tedd Butler said.