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Hey there's an article about Colorado State's Kelsey Snider titled "Patience pays off for CSU volleyball player Kelsey Snider"! So what's she been so patient about, like patience is sooo important?
"Kelsey Snider received questionnaires from 67 college volleyball programs."

Ah, so she was patient with all the paper cuts she got from the questionnaires, or...?

"And now, after sitting out last fall as a redshirt..."

OK, scratch that, scratch the paper cut statement. I'm with you now: She was patient about having to launder all those red shirts, you know, separate them from your whites. Gotcha.

And now, now she's ready to play for the Rams as their starting right side. So besides washing all those shirts, what was Snider doing last year?

"It helped me understand CSU's system, the blocking system, stuff like that."

Really? How complicated is Hilbert's blocking system? Is this a card-counting scenario? Is a working knowledge of Visual C++ needed? It's blocking.

At any rate, she seems to have it figured out, being a starter and all. What's Hilbert say?

"She has these incredible days, where she shows flashes of brilliance."

Uh-oh. I'm sensing an "On the other hand" coming.

"And she has days where..."

I knew it. Here we go. This is gonna hurt.

"...she shows a lot of youth."

Tactful! 

"What really sets her apart, though, Hilbert said, is her blocking ability."

You mean the blocking she does in that complicated system?

"I just love the act of blocking."

Ah so it's all just an act. Snider doesn't really care about blocking at all, does she. DOES SHE.

"She plays very hard all the time, though," Hilbert said. So I guess she does care. But how much does she care?

"Sometimes she's calling for sets that she's not really ready to take."

If there's anything a coach hates, it's players calling for a set on the right side while sitting on the end of the bench. Soooo annoying.

"There are times when I have to rein her back in and tell her, 'Hey, be a a little more patient,'" Hilbert said.

Aaaand we're back to the patience thing. I thought we were past this.