Carolina Crush Volleyball Club

 

Core Values: A Break Down of Our Culture

 

Carolina Crush Volleyball is focused on developing character based athletes that will compete at their highest level. This requires a culture where athletes, their parents, and coaches understand and share the same vision. More than just understanding the vision athletes, their parents, and coaches must work together to achieve it. Our goal is to take each athlete from where they are to where they want to be.  In order to do this successfully we believe in adopting and living certain core values and beliefs.  Values are never changing and we want our athletes to have core values that will last them a lifetime. Values remain the same regardless of the circumstance that  It is our belief that athletes who have developed strong values, have great volleyball careers and happy lives.

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Our Values

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 Passionately Engage ~ Trust ~ Commitment ~ Growth Mindset ~  Mentality Tough ~ Communication ~Burning Desire to Achieve ~ Strong Work Ethic ~ Discipline ~ Positive Attitude

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Passionately Engage

A Passionately engaged individual has an intense enthusiasm and commitment towards something. A passion and commitment to keep reaching new heights in the sport. Become passionately engaged in what you are doing and you will find that the moments where you want to quit, will keep you dedicated to achieving your goals.  Be dedicated in everything you do. Be passionately engaged! 

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Trust

Developing trust takes honesty, work, and acceptance. Trust is a key element in every relationship. When trust is established and then cultivated, the relationship can grow to deeper levels. Trust needs to be earned and developed with coaches, teammates, parents, and self.  Trust takes time and all parties working together to build that trust.

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Commitment

When a player doesn’t show up, doesn’t give their best, doesn’t fulling commit to the team or the vision of the team there is a wedge created between the team and that player. Commitment is a vital key to success for all players, parents, and coaches. Agreeing to be a part of the team is saying yes to being at practice, yes to being at tournaments, and yes to giving your best at both practices and tournaments. Learning to be responsible and to be faithful to commitments is not only important to volleyball but to life.

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Growth Mindset

A growth mindset is a learning mindset.  A person who embodies a growth mindset seeks out challenges and focus on the process, NOT the outcome.  Learning is a process and it can get very frustrating, a growth mindset puts off frustration and looks for opportunities to improve.  You may hear us talk about a “Fixed Mindset”. This is a term used by Dr. Carol Dweck in her book “The Mindset”. Fixed Mindsets are beliefs that people cannot change with work but rather people are “meant” or “born” to do certain things.  For example, kids typically say, “I am not a good reader.”  It doesn’t come easy to me.”  Someone with the growth mindset would look at that and say, “I may not be good at reading now, but with work, I can become the best I can be.”  People with the growth mindset love challenges were those with the fixed mindset tend to avoid any challenge because it makes them look bad. Everyone has to learn and improvement is progress. Having the right mindset is key to success.

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Mentality Tough

Mental Toughness… That is a hard one. The steps to being mentally tough aren’t easy. The first step is cutting the excuses. Any excuse for nonperformance, however valid, softens the character. It is a sedative against one’s own conscience. When a someone uses an excuse, he or she attempts to convince both himself or herself and others that unsatisfactory performance is somehow acceptable. No matter how good or how valid, the excuse never changes performance. Once you stop making excuses for why you had a poor performance and except that you had a bad play or game, the sooner you can move to the next play or match. To use an excuse is a habit. We cannot have both the performance habit and the excuse habit. We all have a supply of excuses. The more we use them the lower become our standards, the poorer our performance. The better we perform, the less plausible our excuses become; therefore the first step to mental toughness is to lose the excuses. The next step is to practice tough. Not only do you have to practice games skills, you have to practice practice mindsets. How will you react to a bright light in your face while serving? How will you react when you face tight officials to are looking for two hits? The answer is to practice. Practice what your response will be when you are faced with a challenge. We want players who want to build their mental strength just like they would their bodies.

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Communication

We all think that we are communicating and communicating on a high level when in reality communication hasn’t taken place at all.  Details must be covered and expectations set as well as made clear. Communication isn’t all happy or goes well. It can be rough at time. It often needs and takes a lot of understanding.  Problems do arise, when they do we all must be brave and takes courage to communicate with parents, teammates, and  coaches.  We at CCVC value communication, It is a large key to our culture. A lot of problems can be solved and cleared up through good communication.

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Burning Desire to Achieve

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is. Everyone wants to win right?

Sometimes players, parents, and coaches forget about wanting to win has to be greater than the act of winning. Winning is great! It is fun and it makes you feel like you have accomplished something. Wanting to win goes past winning. It goes into having a strong burning desire to be the best you can be. That should be a passion and work ethic that is unquestionable. Achieving the highest mark possible should be the goal every time. These players put in work to make “Ball is life”  be a reality and not just an Instagram bio post. If you want to win and want to do everything in your power to be your best, we want you!

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 Strong Work Ethic

A strong work ethic is part of an individual's personal values. It's based in a belief in the value of work for its own sake and not just for its rewards. There are five things that go into a strong work ethic.

Punctuality: Punctuality is not restricted to when you begin your tournament day or when practice starts - it also means being prompt for meetings and events connected to your volleyball career.

Reliability: In the business world, when you have a strong work ethic, your employer worries less about the work you produce. He or she knows you are reliable, which means you will do what is asked of you. This includes coming to work, completing projects and participating in workplace enhancement activities, such as team-building exercises. Moving this to the volleyball world, when you have a strong work ethic, your teammates worry less about what you are going to in games. The coaches know you are reliable, which means you will play any position if needed, and anything the team needs.

Flexibility: Team needs. Plain and simple. You might be a setter and the need of the team is a DS, well strong work ethic players say okay I will do my best. A step past that is playing a team and finding the best way to score or read.

Attention to Details: Professionalism, regardless of the industry, is part of a good work ethic. Attention to detail demonstrates you care not only about your work, but its quality.

Positive Attitudes: Fundamentally, a strong work ethic may be about having a positive attitude about your sport. As team members, those with positive work ethics may refrain from speaking ill about teammates or coaches. They should emphasize the positive in their working environment and look toward making it better through their own personal commitment to excellence.

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Discipline 

Self-discipline is very important to us at CCVC. We want athletes who work hard, always do the right thing, and want to see themselves succeed in volleyball.  

 

 

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Positive Attitude

The most important part of our culture. Being positive even when the mists of defeat is very hard. It goes back to the mind set. Overcoming a loss or set back starts with a positive attitude. 

Rather you think you can or you think you can't you are right. Is a saying that is 100% true. You most be positive to overcome the issues you will face. Positive thinking runs over into positive attitudes. Athletes with positive attitudes go farther and complete more goals than athletes without that mind set. 

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