Elena Shklyar是新闻学院的大三学生。她也是密歇根州立大学排球队的一员。这个故事是改编自WKAR的内容。今年7月，Shklyar写下了她回到校园和排球队一起练习的经历。去年12月，她给出了自己的最新情况。
我从没想过我会带着半张脸的面具走进排球场，不能和队友击掌，也没有准备秋天的比赛。
但这只是我生活的“新常态”的一部分，作为密歇根州立排球队的一名初级二传手。
因为新冠肺炎，正常的情况完全改变了。大学生运动员的日常生活是前所未有的。
现在是每天早上做症状测试，向管子里吐痰，以便进入体育馆打排球。
现在因为队友流鼻涕或头痛，不得不去做COVID – 19检测，结果是因为天气变化而感冒，所以不能在最后一分钟来训练。
现在是每次练习都要戴多个口罩流汗，而不仅仅是t恤。
现在是我给我的室友发短信，说“早上帮他们吐痰”，这样我们就能拿到我们的新冠肺炎早期检测结果。
现在是我的一个赛季被推迟了，一年多都不能参加排球比赛了。我们是怎么走到这一步的?今年，COVID-19改变了我的世界。
2020年7 – 8月
大约在七月初，我又可以开始和我的教练和球队一起在杰尼森菲尔德豪斯训练了。终于，我觉得一切都恢复正常了。
然后我开始听说秋季运动取消了，就像春季运动一样，不幸的是，只是几个月前。
果然，几天后，当我正在练习的时候，我们确切地听到了消息——那个秋天我们不能比赛了。可以肯定地说，当时我的心都快掉下来了。
我们工作的所有事情，所有的锻炼我们做缩放在我们的房子隔离，我们所有的努力工作似乎再次推迟。
我知道我在一开始就抱怨不能进入我们的更衣室，在训练结束时不得不擦拭每个排球，但我愿意做任何事情，只要能有一个赛季。有些事情比体育重要得多，我明白。但对我来说，一个训练了一辈子的一级运动员就为了这个机会?这是毁灭性的。
好消息是这个赛季只是推迟了，并没有取消。我们将有机会在春天比赛。在那之前，我们还要再练习几个月的时间来准备。
2020年9
First semester of my junior year at Michigan State has not been what I expected.
I never expected to go a fall season without playing a volleyball match and I definitely never expected spending every morning in my bedroom doing classes on Zoom.
A day in my life this semester is way different than it has been in the past.
My usual day now goes like this: I wake up for classes only to roll out of my bed and sit at my desk for a few hours listening to my professors on my computer.
After that, I do some homework until it’s time for me to go into the gym. I fill out my COVID-19 screener, which is a survey of any symptoms we may have, walk to the gym and get my temperature checked in order to get in.
This is one of the only normal parts of my day now when I get to do my treatment before practice and practice with my team.
When I say these are the “normal” parts of my day, really the only normal part is finally getting to set a volleyball.
Nothing is normal about not being able to read my teammates emotions on the court because I can only see their eyes.
It definitely isn’t normal not being able to even fill up our own water bottle at practice because we aren’t allowed to touch the water cooler.
No locker room access, no access to our coaches’ offices, no access to our fueling station for snacks, limited access to our academic center and not being able to ever really having a set schedule anymore has become normal to my teammates and me.
Not having access to all of these things mainly limits the things and people we are exposed to. We basically have to shower and change at home and make scheduled appointments for treatment rather than freely coming into the athletic training room.
Everything I have enjoyed the past few years as a Michigan State student-athlete has been limited since and it is necessary. Everyone’s life has changed in this past year.
As an athlete, the sports world has been flipped upside down and thrown around multiple times this year.
I am glad I have had access to a volleyball gym and weight room, as I know some other collegiate athletes have not had that opportunity the past few months. I feel as though this has definitely helped my volleyball skill level stay up as well as my strength and conditioning.
I don’t know what is coming next for me in the world of volleyball. My dream has always been playing in the Olympics. A more realistic dream may be continuing my future volleyball career as a professional overseas for a few years and then starting a coaching career.
Maybe I will end up following my other passion as a sports journalist.
Only time will tell what my future holds. If I have learned anything these past few months, it’s that things can change in the blink of an eye and you have to just roll with the punches.
In a few short weeks, I get to go back to school and prepare to start my season on Jan. 22. My team and I have been preparing every day by working out, having team meetings, film sessions and practicing our volleyball skills in order to be as prepared as possible for the season.
I am beyond excited to get a chance to wear the green and white and represent Michigan State again. 新闻旨在传播有益信息，英文原版地址：https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2020/student-view-not-what-i-expected