How can I make this girl feel more welcome?

Question

There's this girl on my volleyball team; and she's the newest addition to the team. She wasn't at tryouts, so she didn't get the initial chance to meet everyone the way the rest of my team did. She's not that good, but I can tell she puts in an honest effort. Today at practice, she kept getting the ball passed to her, and her passes always went way out of control, and by the fourth pass she messed up, she was almost in tears. I felt really bad about it, but I didn't know what to say.

I'm kind of bad at this stuff, so what can I say when that happens? And how can I make her feel more welcome?

Answer 1

Talk to her and tell lher taht she is almost welcome in the team.  Tell her don't  feel shy of the members of a team.  Tell her you are one team, one group and one victory for all.

Answer 2

Be nice and give her some pointers. She is probably doing bad because she feels really nervous because she is around a bunch of people she doesn't know.. just be nice and offer to help her out with some volleyball moves

Answer 3

tell her:

to be herself, no pressure, feel at home, don't think about it too much

be the best you,

she just needs a little warming up, a little practice,

friends, and confidence

Answer 4

Okay, this is what you have to do, you can gather up the volley ball team and have this fun introduction for her to get to know everybody and everybody, knows her, if your good in volleyball help her out with the passes serves volleys and stuff to show her that she should be confident and that she'll get better at volleyball, you could have a sleepover with the volleyball team or you could get the team to make a card or something, or even lol get a volleyball and everybody signs it. And tell the team captin that we should all be helping her and supporting her especially the captin cuz shes in charge and she has responsibilities to boost up everybodys confidence

Answer 5

After practice I would pull her aside and tell her that you really respect her trying and that your willing to help her practice. When it happens during a practice reassure her by letting her know that it happens to everyone and say things like "You'll get it next time"  or "It happens to the best of us, shake it off" or even "You can do it, I believe in you".

As for the welcoming thing maybe have a sleep over that you invite her to, giving her time to bond with the team off the court, in a less stressful situation.

Answer 6

maybe u can plan something so the whole team could go out and do something together outside of practice... go out for lunch/pizza/ice cream. and during practice u could be like good try but next time try this...