Hello!

My name is Isabelle Barfield, and my life is quite the ride, so let’s go over some of the highlights together. To begin my story, we start on the coast where colonizers first stepped, the east coast! I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where I spent my first two years growing and taking in the world around me. While I was born in Boston, my dad was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and my mum was born in Calgary, Canada! They met in Hawaii, and then came me, their biracial, dual citizen, outspoken daughter. They are both nurses. My dad, a retired corpsman from the navy, and my mum, a trauma nurse, turned ICU Manager. The level of medicine embedded in the family birthed my love of the human body. Specifically the heart and the brain. When I was eight years old, my mum asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her I wanted to be a “heart surgeon.” When I was 10 or 11, I decided cardiothoracic surgery wasn’t as excellent as neurosurgery. I am now 16 in my 10th year of high school with a catastrophic passion for neuroscience. I plan to obtain a bachelor’s of science then follow medical school through internship, residency, and all that comes after. Ironically, volleyball was not the intended plan for my life when I was younger. My little brother and I had learned to ice skate before we could walk, and I figure skated for the better portion of my elementary years. As my love for figure skating began to wilt, my love for gymnastics started to grow. It faded again and grew back as dance, archery, basketball, high jump, pole vault, and finally blossomed into volleyball as a middle/pin hitter. Developmental teams turned into club teams that lead to varsity teams, and I am now in love with the sport. I currently play on Mead Senior Highschools Varsity Volleyball team and am with the Renovators Volleyball Club (RVC) as a U16 going into U17 this upcoming summer. I am happy with where I am now but highly excited to see my goals grow, skills improve, and anything else the universe tosses to me. I pride myself on my academics and my street smarts, maintaining a 4.0 in school and in my social life. I bring drive, diversity (racially and culturally), passion everywhere I go, positivity, and radiant energy on and off the court. I work painstakingly hard for everything I set my mind to, and I eagerly await the adversity, competition, and excitement collegiate volleyball has to offer!

Love,

Isabelle Barfield.