What Jenna has done very well over the years is take a situation and make it her own. She initially intended to be in New York for college when she was accepted to Columbia, but financially, she couldn’t make that happen. She came to Colorado State with the intention of not allowing it to become a second choice.
She played volleyball, on her own dime until receiving a scholarship last year, and she attacked her studies as she always had. Then the opportunity to intern with Goldman-Sachs came up, and the process just to be accepted into the program was arduous.
To Hilbert, it all played into Jenna’s wheelhouse.
“I told her, Jenna, this is one situation where you being a walk-on is going to play to your benefit,” Hilbert said. “You need to tell them you’re out there because you want to be out there, that you believe hard work and fitness and those things are important to your life, and it may impact my GPA.
“They change so much from age 17 to 21, 22. I’ve always said that’s the greatest part of coaching is watching people grow.”
So when something amazing is about to happen, he wants to share in the moment with his players. Interrupt practice for a job offer? No question. The drills can wait.
As unorthodox as it may sound, Jenna saw volleyball practice as the perfect setting for the phone conversation to take place. What happened after she celebrated with her team was just so natural.
She went back to practice. She took her line in the passing drill and worked on getting balls to the setter with perfect placement.
“It’s almost like I was more focused. I can just play volleyball right now and think about nothing else,” Jenna said of the moment. “It’s a weird thing to go from working a job and to be playing volleyball. It’s two different worlds, and then they collided together. I had more of an appreciation, because I think a lot of the way I got this job and the internship, the opportunities and the person I am is because of volleyball. So after I hung up that phone and I jumped back into the drill, it was more of like gratitude for what this sport has done for me and the opportunities it’s brought to me.”
Because of COVID-19 and the NCAA ruling moving most fall sports and their championships to the spring, Jenna’s volleyball career has likely ended a year early. As relaxing of a feeling as it is to have a job lined up after graduation, there is still a lot to cover.
She still has classes to take, but she admits the pressure has definitely lessened. Soon, she is going to jump straight into being an adult, and do it in New York City. It’s amazing to think her office is across from the World Trade Center and the lunchroom overlooks the Statue of Liberty. She’s not quite sure what the first “New York thing” will come first for her.
“That I chose this school and made it my own and made it my community,” Jenna said. “I worked really hard and said that one day, maybe, I’ll end up back up there. I didn’t plan it. It just came this way. Then Goldman appeared in the picture and New York came back into the picture. I look at the whole story laid out and I couldn’t have written it any better.”
Especially the part about accepting the job offer. You don’t dream up those settings.
No doubt about it -- practice definitely made it perfect.
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