4/8/2015

Best Gandolf Impression: Isabel. She said Thou Shall Not Pass, and sure enough the hits were blocked back.

Best Run of Serves: Sarah. The jump serve was humming and none of their passers for 7-15 points could do anything about it.

Best Middle Net Swing: Crystal. That was the hardest I’ve seen the net hit, since coaching the Princeton Women’s Club team. It shows your awesome power! (btw next year, that will probably be illegal, stay tuned)

Best Set when not playing: Nikki. Nikki is so good at setting that she set a ball while doing book!

Best Back Row Hitting: Sarah and Juliana. It is such a comfort to have both of you in the back row to put a quality attack on the ball and not just free-ball it over.

Best Killer Serve: Kaelin. There was one serve in particular, that cleared the net, hit the libero square in the arms and I could have sworn that she fell backwards.

Most Painful Serve: Alyssa H. You hit a serve with so well, that when the libero hit the ball she squeaked. Then throughout the rally she kept on rubbing her arms because it hurt so much.

Best Adjustment: Marlena. After hitting with 0 errors, I asked you to try to hit line. Sure enough, when the set got up, you turned & hit line and their middle back simply wasn’t ready for the deep corner.

Best deep corner push: Nikki. I salute you with little devil horns!

Best offensive series: Jenna. Over and over and over again, the ball came back and forth. Over and over and over again the set went to you and you did us proud by hitting it with strength and consistency.

Best playing in different positions: Kaelin, Sarah, Jenna, Crystal, Juliana. Thank you very much for stepping up.

Best setting game: Nikki. There were times in previous competitions in which, if the passes were tight, you’d dump, but you turned and set them over to our outside! Good job, keep it up.

Best variation of hits: Alyssa H. Angle, angle, line, HARD angle, angle. Very nice, that totally keeps the blockers honest.

Best almost yellow card. Coach Marko. Not allowed on the court!

Best court awareness: Nikki. Wherever and whenever there seems that the ball was going to drop, Nikki made a play to keep us in the point.