DIVE OF TOURNAMENT: Ally. Hands down, best dive. Just incredible. No question. The ref, came over and gave you compliments. This does not happen very much.
Best Imitation of a gust of wind: Charlotte serve moved so much that when it reached the passer, she squeezed her eyes shut as the ball hit her. She didn’t pass the ball, the ball bounced off of her.
Best Concrete Protractor Award: Caroline for getting up and hitting hard angle.
Best Imitation of a Waitress: Cadence for a tip kill down the line.
Anti Gravity Award: Addison, nothing drops.
Best Deep Corner 5 Points: Francesca for hitting deeeeep left corner.
Best use of the Confundus Charm: Caroline for serving the ball with such deception that they got confused and couldn’t pass.
Best Line Serves: Ally for hitting top spin serves down the line to great effect.
Best Sharp Shooting: Charlotte for serving balls ONTO their baseline.
Best Use of Friction: Rachel: The ball was passed super tight, you put topspin on the ball with a roll shot where the ball rolled up the net’s top tape and over for a point!
Gerry Rafferty award: Francesca for crushing it down the line.
Best Hit while Falling Backwards: Anna, I still don’t know how you fall backwards and still get so much power into your hits. We’ll keep on working and you’ll be crushing the ball soon!
Best Changeup: Caroline for effective tips that find the floor.
Best Imitation of a Roof: Aleyna and Dara for putting great blocks.
Best Deep Corner 5 Point Serves: Charlotte for floating a ball right into a 1 square foot corner.
Best Imitation of a Duplex’s Roof: Rachel and Dara for putting up double blocks. This is going to be more important as we get into playing against better outside hitters.
Most Immune to Ice: Cadence for serving through 2 timeouts called to try to ice you.
Ax + By – C = 0 award: Caroline and Francesca for hitting line.
Best Bruce Lee Impression: Francesca: That was a SUPER hard serve. You got your hands up with strength and flexibility and made a great pass to Rachel.
Best Run of Serves: Charlotte 9 points in a row!
Fisherman’s Award: Cadence for fishing the ball out of the net for a perfect set.
Best Face Palm Award: Aleyna for serving a ball so high and strong that when she went to pass it, it bounced off of her platform and into her face!
3rd Pedal Award: Aleyna for clutch serving
Tack Sharp Passing: Addison for passing up, back, left and right! Great all around libero play!
20% award: Ally for great tips over the blockers and down into their middle-middle.
Best Fight Through Traffic Award: Cadence for tracking down errant passes around and through middles, and outsides.
Billiards Award: Aleyna and Rachel. Aleyna hits the ball, but it gets blocked back over and Rachel hits the combo back over!
Best Bridge Kills: Dara and Anna for killing overpasses.
Best Forward Sprawl Saves: Addison and Cadence, the balls were ticketed for the ground, but you were low, got lower and sprawled to make the saves.
Best Sound Effect When Passing: Francesca for OY-ing the ball back over the net.