Joey Guidone Basketball figured to be the game for Micaya White. Download Tv Apps For Java Phone more. Her dad, Randy White, played in the NBA.

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Her brother, R.J., is the starting center for UNC Greensboro. Micaya joined her first team when she was 6.

'Everybody assumed I was going to play too,' the 6-foot-1 White said. There was just one problem. She didn't love it. 'When I tried to show aggression, I'd end up hurting another player or fouling out of the game.' More than that, White cringed, 'I hated being touched. I'm a germ freak, so a sweaty person touching me freaked me out.'

A conversation with the volleyball coach at her middle school opened up an avenue she never considered. Urged to try out for the school's team, White hesitated. 'I didn't want to suck at it, and I knew nothing about it,' she said. Courtesy Texas There's a long line of basketball players in Micaya White's family.

But the Big 12 Freshman of the Year at Texas fell in love with volleyball. But within a week, White fell in love with the game in which the block party never ends. Volleyball fired up her competitive juices just as much as basketball, if not more. 'Only there was a net in between,' she said.

'You can put in all this aggression toward one object and let it out.' Basketball's loss became volleyball's gain.

White was the Big 12 Freshman of the Year at Texas, which reached the NCAA title game in December. Her decision to pick volleyball over basketball follows a national trend. Two years ago, for the first time, more high school girls played volleyball (432,176) than basketball (429,504), according to the. In 2015-16, volleyball added another 4,133 girls to those numbers, while basketball lost 276 participants. Examine the past decade, and the numbers are more striking.

Statistics compiled by the NFHS show an increase of more than 40,000 volleyball players in that span and a decrease of 23,000 basketball players. 'There's been a huge African-American crossover into our sport, and it's become the social norm now to play volleyball, whereas 10 or 15 years ago, it was basketball,' Texas coach Jerritt Elliott said. 'It appeals not just to the super tall but the super small. The super small has a niche with the libero and the [defensive specialist] position where they can find success at a very high level.' Volleyball, which had its national semifinals showcased on ESPN in December, has evolved way past the days of a picnic pastime. 'There's a whole lot of girls out there who like to be powerful, who like to be strong and assertive and aggressive, but they also like having a net between them,' said Kathy DeBoer, executive director of the American Volleyball Coaches Association.