For redshirt sophomore Melissa McMath and the rest of the Appalachian State volleyball team, their squad is much more than a group of people that they simply play a sport with. The team is much closer than that.
“It really is a second family for me,” McMath said.
They go through ups and downs with each other just like any family would.
One of these more special “ups” happened during the Mountaineers’ final team meeting of the spring and would change McMath’s life drastically. Head coach Matt Ginipro gathered his team as usual, and told them that they were going to do a team-building exercise.