With Sarah Floyd on the court, HP Volleyball holds lofty goals
An elite player on a powerful team, Sarah Floyd knows she and her Highland Park teammates are going to get their share of wins.
It could be quite a few — enough to take them all the way to the top.
But slow down. Why not enjoy the ride?
“I know we have the mentality of win state or go to state,” she said. “For us, it’s not about being there in that moment, it’s leading up to it; how we work to get there, and we progress and we win games or lose them and learn from our mistakes. We grow as a team. For me, that’s really fun, having a team that progresses in the season and doesn’t just max at the beginning.”
Floyd knows her team well, since she has played with many of her teammates at her TAV (Texas Advantage Volleyball) club. Some, she shared the court with early in third and fourth grade. Now a sophomore, she’s in her second year on the varsity and a top national recruit as a promising 6-foot-3 athlete.
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She knows the Scots’ potential. One more thing: She is the Scots’ best player, and no one has a problem saying that.
“She’s earned respect from all her teammates,” coach Michael Dearman said. “Even as a freshman, she was getting a lot of respect from the seniors. You’d hear them say, ‘I keep forgetting you’re a freshman.’ They don’t look at her as a sophomore. They look at her as Sarah Floyd.”
Smart, dependable, and a good teammate, Floyd has the tangibles and intangibles. Yes, she’s nice. But she’s also competitive and intense. That’s always easy to see from her determination to get the Scots over the top.
“In really tight matches or tight sets, it is so fun and enjoyable if you just be confident and go after the ball and you’re just super aggressive and have the mentality of, ‘I want to win the game,’” she said. “It’s always so fun when that happens.”
She doesn’t want to be far from that feeling — ever. She’ll keep volleyball in her life as long as possible.
“I do picture volleyball in my future,” she said. “Playing in college is one thing I really want to do, as well as go pro afterwards. And maybe … the Olympics.”
There’s nothing wrong with thinking big. Any team with Floyd on it has a right to.
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