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<\/a>Bid\u00e1 found in the Chargers the possibility of aligning his passion for the sport with the opportunity to invest in post-secondary studies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent four years after high school only playing volleyball,\u201d says Bid\u00e1. \u201cI realized that I don\u2019t just want to rely on sports, I want to study to get a degree, and in Brazil, we cannot do both with quality.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, Bid\u00e1 decided to take the future in his hands and started getting in touch with some colleges in Canada. Some positive replies arrived and eventually he chose Camosun, enrolling in the Exercise and Wellness program and becoming a Camosun Charger.<\/p>\n
Chargers men\u2019s volleyball coach Charles Parkinson received Bid\u00e1\u2019s e-mail to Camosun. Parkinson says that the Chargers looked into Bid\u00e1\u2019s experience and thought he could be a nice fit for the team. And they were right.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s fitting in perfectly. <\/i>He\u2019s exactly like I would expect him to be,\u201d says Parkinson, adding that Bid\u00e1 brings with him a lot of experience playing at a high level of volleyball. \u201cHe is a great player, very skilled; many of the Brazilian players have very good ball control skills. He\u2019s also a furious competitor, he\u2019s very mature, he\u2019s fitting in really, really well, and he\u2019s a\u00a0great guy as well. <\/i>We\u2019re really happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, despite his achievements in this particular sport, volleyball was actually not the first sport that the athlete was interested in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always played football in Brazil,\u201d he says. \u201cBut as I was a bigger size, I had to play with the older guys, but then I could not compete with them because I was younger.\u201d<\/p>\n
After three years of practicing volleyball in his town, an opportunity appeared to play in a different city.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s when I started my volleyball routine. That\u2019s when I saw that\u2019s what I like to do and what I love to do,\u201d says Bid\u00e1.<\/p>\n
And that love goes deeper than the training and willpower that motivates Bid\u00e1. The volleyball court also represents a deep connection with his biggest motivation: his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI worked so hard to be here, and my mom [did] also,\u201d he says. \u201cMy friends and family are so supportive that when I think about them the only thing that comes to my mind is to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moving here brings new challenges to Bid\u00e1: he needs to find a way to manage time between school, work, and volleyball practices, all in a new country. It may seem that study and sport are different paths, however, for Bid\u00e1, the discipline, determination, and resilience he\u2019s learned through volleyball are transferrable skills for his day-to-day routine.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust like in volleyball, we\u2019re going to have ups and downs during life, but you have to keep pushing,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Eduardo Bid\u00e1 recently arrived in Victoria from Brazil and wasted no time integrating himself into the Camosun Chargers men\u2019s volleyball team. Bid\u00e1, 22, was recognized as the Pacific Western Athletic Association male volleyball athlete of the week after just two weeks playing with the Chargers; he also was named a Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association male […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-february-21-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15460,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions\/15460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}