We literally trained for 3 years before our coach said that we were capable enough to start playing competition games. We had days where training's were hard, the old team members drilled us to become better each and every day. We got yelled at every time we made a mistake, but in my mind I kept saying 'It's to make us become better'. I trained myself for the setter position and I became better each and every day until I had a setback because of my injury.
The team that I used to play my first competition with, I think it was in 2014 or 2015.