Aarika

Age: 15      Height: 5'10     
Hometown: Ca
Team: Performance Volleyball Academy U16
Sports: Volleyball
Goals for next year: To make varsity volleyball team next year!
Academic Achievement: Presidents Award - Elemenary school
4.0 GPA - Junior High
Maintaining A's and B's with all advanced classes and a crazy schedule!
Athletic Achievement: I made my school's JV volleyball team after only playing volleyball for three months.
How you got started with CATZ: My volleyball coach, Nir, wanted my team to try CATZ.

Getting to know Aarika:

Any pre-game or pre-practice rituals or routines? Superstitions?
I have to wear my hair ribbon for every game or I feel naked without it. lol

Most memorable life moment.
Every moment is the BEST.

What college do you hope to attend?
I would love to go to Stanford, but Pepperdine, Santa Barbara, NYU would be fun too!

Specific academic goals or career choices in mind?
I want to get straight A's, and as for a career, all I know is that I want to do something artistic; acting or clothing design possibly.

Who is the most influential person/people in your life?
This weekend in one match I had to serve on game point for the other team and missed my serve twice. I faced the same situation later in the day and made my serve. I was really happy! I learned that I need to learn from experience and frustration and work to not do it again.

Coach Nir (Performance Volleyball Club Director)"Aarika has a great attitiude - always working hard with a big smile. Constantly working hard to improve at all aspects of the game."