-1 Award: Sarah for doing the opposite of what I said. “Serve it hard and deep” so of course, she serves, hits the top of the net and lands on the 1 FOOT LINE in position 4. For an Ace. I had to apologize to the other coach…
Parting of the Red Sea Award: Tess for serving the ball so hard that the passers on the receiving team all shied away from the ball!
Best Bob the Builder Impression: Addison for putting up a roof to block a ball.
Knocking Down Bridges Award: Addison, Annika and Sarah(!) for hitting back overpasses.
Spic and Span Award: Diggy for super clean sets.
Level Award: Jamie for very consistent passing.
Mariana Trench Award: Rylee for super deep angle and super deep court hits. This is great, keep it up as it puts constant pressure on their defense.
y=mx+b Award: Sofia for hitting line for a point!
3 Meter Springboard Award: Halle for making those diving, sprawling saves! Those saves were critical to keeping our team in the game and to allow our team to apply constant, relentless pressure.
6 Pack Award: Sophie for hitting the hardest middle hit.
What Just Happened?!? Award: Diggy for setting a backset that was so good that I couldn’t follow it for a second! Great job for spreading the offense around!
Best Impression of a Tack: Halle for Tack Sharp passing. It isn’t the spectacular saves that you make that keep us in the majority of points, it is the routine passes that give our setters options and flexibility with our offense. It All Starts With A Pass.
Best Out of System Sets: Diggy and Sarah. Each of you had several sets where the passes took you 10+ feel off of the net. In these cases you made your decisions and set up high sets in positions where our players could do something with them.
Best Get The Heck Out The Way Award: Everyone who isn’t a setter! I think we had… maybe 1? play where the ball was taken from the setter. This shows a true maturation of us as a team.
Pinball Award: Natalie, you served a ball so hard, that it bounced off of passer with such pace that it clunked the passer next to her..
Squeezing Out of a Tight Situation Award: Jamie for hitting a super tight set over the net. It was an incredibly difficult shot and you made it look easy.
Spine Award: Tess, while in the Back Row, hitting a Back set.
Quality-Quality Serves: Everyone. Really. Total Quality Serving game today. Just Wow.
Best Magnus Effect Serves: Jamie for hitting top spin serves.
It’s Cold Outside… NOT: Our outsides today were On Fire with your passing, coverage, transitioning and hitting.
Best Going Backwards hit: Annika for tracking back a ball and hitting it over the net.
Ducks in a Row: All of our servers. We had too many players who went on serving runs. Granted that their service reception wasn’t the strongest, but y’all launched strong, quality serves.