Katie Holloway’s physical play at the net and strong serving earned her a trip to the Rio Paralympics with her teammates.
mid-January to Thanksgiving, non-residents are mostly their own bosses. They’re sent a weekly training plan, but it’s up to them to get the work done, and then they travel to Oklahoma as frequently as possible for three- to four-day monthly team camps. Not having the entire team under one roof
isn’t ideal, but with budget constraints that prevent sitting players from focusing exclusively on sitting volleyball, Hamiter says it’s a necessary workaround. “The coach side of me thinks, ‘Don’t move away; I want you here training full time,” he says. “But the relationship coach side of me understands that they have a life, they’ve got to live it, they’ve got to have a job and it needs to be a job that will push them toward a career down the road.”
Super mom
A photo taken last year by Webster’s five-year- old daughter, Madelyn, says it all. Webster is sitting on the floor of the family living room,
their arms up. When they were part of the practice, it made it easier for them
to understand what I was doing and it was more of a family investment. — Lora Webster
“
setting a volleyball. Next to her is her three- year-old son, Cole, who has glanced up from a book he’s reading to watch Mom. Lying across Webster’s lap is the baby, Kyle, who’s now a year old. Out of the camera’s view but involved as Webster’s peppering partner is her husband, Paul Bargellini, an attorney and former team captain of the men’s club volleyball team at the Univer- sity of Delaware. “That picture pretty much sums up how we
did it,” Webster says. “The kids had a volleyball in their hands as soon as they could lift their arms up. When they were part of the practice, it made it easier for them to understand what I was doing and it was more of a family invest- ment. That’s how we got through it. We just did it together.” As an active kid growing up in Lincoln,
Nebraska, Webster got an early start in sports, too, playing “absolutely everything,” from soccer to gymnastics. At age 11, she was diagnosed with bone cancer in her left leg. Faced with a couple of treatment options, her parents let her
make the call, and she chose a procedure called rotationplasty that involved removing her knee, rotating the lower part of her leg 180 degrees and reattaching it to the femur. Soon after, she was fitted for a prosthesis. “My mom was hesitant [with the rotation- plasty] because she was imagining me going on a date when I was older and explaining that my foot is on backward,” Webster says. “She was thinking of her teenage daughter, and it was good that she had that perspective, but that wasn’t on my radar. I just wanted to retain mobility and activity. I was always outside and playing sports. That was my life, and that’s what I wanted to keep – just being able to move.” The family relocated from Lincoln to Phoenix
when Webster was 15, and she played a full complement of sports through high school: four years of standing volleyball, track and a year on the varsity diving team.
As busy as life was back then, it got a whole lot busier when she became a mom midway through her sitting career. One example of
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