Volleyball butko biography

With volleyball on “you”: the story of the sports family Butko Zhanna Butko is a master of sports in volleyball, the coach of the 1st qualification category told what she regrets, how the volleyball helps the harmonious development of the personality and whether it is easy to be a fateful person in the life of pupils and his children Artem and Alexander Butko, who became famous volleyball players.

An inexplicable attraction is Zhanna Sergeevna, a logical question: why did volleyball become your favorite sport? I still can’t explain this. At the beginning of the 4th grade, she went to look for a volleyball section at our Grodno Stadium “Red Banner”. She looked at all rooms and asked: “Do you teach you to play volleyball here? And when she opened the next door, the woman finally said: “Yes, yes, come in!

I began to train with her. I got into a group where the children were 3 years older than me. By the end of the school year, the city championship took 2nd place, and the older girls did not forgive me for this. We had a conflict in the locker room: they considered that I was interfering with their career. They could not resist them and left. Although my mother was against me to throw this romantic sport that nobles and representatives of the nobility in the past were engaged.

The coach came to our house, they called me to the school principal, persuaded me, but I stubbornly wanted to play volleyball. When a coach came to the school to recruit children in a volleyball section, I was delighted. And he chose 3 girls who were taller than me. But I am persistent, I still began to go to training. The ball was not given to me. I climbed the ropes, along the walls in the hall, until we started learning the taxes.

And, when the girls could not kill the ball through the grid, I sent him through the entire hall. Only then they paid attention to me. With this, my career in volleyball began, which greatly upset my mother. But then I did not understand that I had such a strong character. I realized this, having matured, because she could withstand the unreasonable decisions of the coach at a time when all the players were shaking and afraid.

After all, such an explosive mixture - a great desire and strong character - should help to overcome all the difficulties? Life did not stint on them against me. I entered the School of the Olympic Reserve, played for the youth team of the republic. Then we participated in the Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR. Everything was fine, but my mother fell ill, and I had to return to Grodno.

Here I continued to play in the Communist team. And then love happened. I got married early, the children were born. It is difficult to withstand such a load, but it is possible. All crossed out the injury. I tried to recover, return, but I had to end my career at 24 years old. I then started depression. The fact that Sasha became pregnant. Responsibility for children did not allow her hands.

Even before the birth of the youngest son. Probably, good coaches are obtained from those who do not have a game career. I didn’t succeed in it, I did not fully realize myself as a player. She was engaged in the boys of the year of birth. The coach left, and they gave them to me when the guys studied already in the 7th grade. We took 4th place in the youth championship of the Soviet Union.

The competition was held in Lviv, we reached the finals, and lost through my fault. I was too young, I did not calculate all the tricks and intrigues from the side of the seasoned, experienced coaches. Most of these boys then fell into the team of the Grodno "communal person". Some of them later became coaches, for example, Dmitry Cat. He is my pupil. For him, I became a fateful person, I saw potential in a guy.

I understood this. Sasha from a small age went to the camps with me in the summer, and then at home addressed me: "Mom Zhanna Sergeevna, I want to eat." And it hurt me to hear that, really. Not easy ... ... Volleyball begins - Zhanna Sergeevna, you married a creative person far from sports. It turned out an amazing combination: a musician and an athlete. He led the orchestra. When I played, he had to endure my frequent business trips, fees.

Who will like that the young wife is always on the trip? When our firstborn was born, after 3 months I returned to the sport. The husband remained with the little Artem. On this basis, we had conflicts. But I always told him: "You knew that you would not marry the opera singer, but in the athlete." He did not want the children to play volleyball, but dreamed that they would become musicians.

I bought them guitars, music centers, lured in every possible way. But you need to deal with children, find time for them, and he was very passionate about work. And every summer I went with my pupils to the camp. Where to put your sons? I took it with me. Everyone traveled around, and they also had to sit down just like that. Unfortunately, the husband was seriously ill and passed away early.

I was then 44 years old. This has become a great tragedy for sons. The younger Alexander was especially difficult. He was 20 years old, he only left his father’s house, left for Moscow. I could not go with him, as my husband needed care. And the son of Artem had already married this time.This is an expensive sport in which you need to financially invest.

We did not have that kind of money. Plus, I had to take my son for training, and I had to do this. And then Artem fell ill with pneumonia, spent a month in the hospital for a month. The coaches never called, did not ask how the child was doing. It was alerted. I came to them and directly said: “If you are not interested in it, it means that I take it into volleyball, because there, I know for sure, he will achieve a professional level.” I took him from tennis in the middle of the school year and told my husband: "Tennis ends, volleyball begins." She gave Artem to a sports class.

I could not be soft, fluffy, because I had to make quite strict decisions. Now I regret it ... To some extent, I took my childhood from my sons. My nephew played hockey for the region’s national team, but the doctors banned him. And one fine day he dragged the whole hockey ammunition to our house with the words: “Sanya, this is for you! And who will carry? Mom, of course.

At the end of the school year, I asked Sasha if they had a camp. He replied not. He trained in a team with his brother and children who were 4 years older than him. The son turned out to be a very capable boy, talented in any game sport. It is not surprising that the basketball coaches followed him on his heels. But his dream remained hockey. Even today, having so many titles and achievements in volleyball, Sasha enthusiastically monitors games, knows all the NHL players.

Once I even told me that I poisoned his life with his volleyball and he would never give his children to this sport.