The gateway to success in volleyball, the Spring High Volleyball Tournament (All Japan High School Championships). This year, Kiyoshi Kameoka (18), captain of Tokyo’s Sundai Gakuen High School, which won consecutive championships, went on to study at the University of Tsukuba in the Kanto University Division 1 League. This promising star, who has been playing as an outside hitter since entering the school, spoke about his “future” ahead of the Paris Olympics.

Disapproval from the whole family

“Why are you there?”

The Spring High Volleyball Tournament finals were held in January this year. It was in the third set, when Sundai Gakuen High School had taken the first two sets.

As the rally continued, the opposing setter tossed the ball high to the left where the ace was waiting, and Kameoka, who was in the center of the back court, took four steps back and prepared for a spike outside the end line.

Then, the opponent’s attack, which was a one-touch pass, flew right to where Kameoka was waiting. When he returned the ball to the setter and scored a point, the crowd roared. On SNS (Internet social networking service), people were amazed at his “precognitive ability.”

After the match, Kameoka looked back on the match with a calm look on his mind, saying, “The opponent’s ace was a player who would blow away opponents with his power even if they had a good block, so I was aiming for that.”

She started playing volleyball in her first year of elementary school. Both of her parents were in the volleyball club until they reached university. From an early age, she would join her mother’s volleyball team and her older sister’s practice, so it was a natural progression for her to start playing the sport.

She quickly became obsessed with volleyball.

His father Ryusuke (50) said, “He was into sports other than volleyball and video games too…