Girls volleyball declares "It’s MC time," works on team bonding

Jennifer Farrell | Photographer

The girls huddle together in a tight circle with senior Anna Oh in the center.

All is quiet, then Oh shouts “What time is it?” the players around her respond, shouting “it’s MC time! It’s MC time! What! What! It’s MC time! It’s MC time! Woot! Woot!”

So begins the girls varsity volleyball team’s new cheer.

“It started with the freshmen team,” Oh said. “They would say it at our games, like when we were down and trying to come back. We heard it and decided it was a really cute cheer that got us pumped up. And then I just decided to say it this weekend and it really stuck with us the whole game and kept us fired up.”

As well as “MC time,” as this cheer has come to be known, the girls also circle up and sing “Ole!” before their games, yell “aruba!” after blocks and “Oh Dang!” after kills.

Evidently, these cheers are working, because the team has won two of their three league games.

Although they lost to Ramona during a weekend tournament two weeks ago, when the girls played them in an actual game last Tuesday, no one doubted they would win.

“We came in really confident and they came in really cocky,” junior Sierra Moran said. “They thought they were gonna win this one just because they beat us on the weekend. But we played strong and beat them easily.”

Sophomore Caroline Zin also feels good about this year’s team. “We are really energetic and enthusiastic,” she said. “We dominate our games and we’ve had a lot of fans come out.”

As well as having motivation, unique cheers and a winning record, the girls have an excellent relationship with each other.

“Most teams with 16 girls on them don’t really get along very well because there are so many girls that at least one of them will have a conflict with someone else.” Moran said. “But our team is so strong and we are all really good friends with each other and we all love each other, so we haven’t had any of those problems.” Zin agrees.

“We do a lot of team bonding. We go over to each other’s houses and make shirts and we have team dinners together,” she said. In a talk that the girls had last Monday, their coach said that they wouldn’t be successful this season unless they were “16 strong.” Meaning that the team is only as strong as its weakest link, and the players would have to stay strong together if they wanted to win.

This has become their new motto, and they have been living it every game.

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