Valeria Tzintzun '21 Recruiting Profile

I was born in Mexico and since I was in elementary school I started my sports life being enrolled in an Olympic Gymnastic team.  That sport took 2 years of my life, but it helped me to develop flexibility, agility and also to strengthened my muscles.  After to leave my gymnastic team for lack of money I decided to invest that time enrolling myself in free sports courses.  During that year I spent my time  looking for  what sport course to take next, so I started swimming, then I tried dance, athletics and at the end soccer.  I was about to choose another course when I found a prestigious volleyball team that had a very accessible price. My coach  María del Carmen Rangel was  a player from the national team and also was selected to play in the Olympic Games. For that reason her training very demanding and challenging , but it just make me to feel more engaged with the team. However, when I moved to U.S.A I was forced to leave my loved team and the life that I had in Mexico which made me to affront a lot of  new challenges. The depression that I got on the season on which my parents leave me and the non available volleyball teams made stop myself of training for four years. I could't speak the language, I didn't know an accessible place to play, or someone to me take to look for one. But when my parents came back to stay with me I got the willing to retake my routine, so I started over with the tryouts last year and I made into a Varsity team of soccer and when the season gets over I made into the volley ball varsity team. Now I want to focus on my volleyball team and try to get a scholarship so I could have the opportunity to go college.