With experience comes perspective, and Rhonda Low has enough of both to know how to judge success.
It's not always a season-long No. 1 ranking.
It's not always an undefeated final regular-season record.
It's not always even a state championship.
The Cathedral High School boys volleyball team, one of the state's elite programs regardless of sport, experienced all three the past two seasons, and although the Irish didn't quite reach their goal for the 2009 season, Low – the Irish's head coach – said that didn't make the season a disappointment.
Not even close.