Barnstorming Award: Riley for serving some of the hardest low-altitude serves I’ve seen in a long time.

You Are the Weakest Link, Goodbye Award: Kalyn for TWICE serving and hitting the opposing team’s player that they were hiding. First you hit her leg, then you made her try to pass! Both of which resulted in points. (if you don’t get the reference here is a clip of the game show https://youtu.be/0dcItDsp5sg)

Best Impression of a Roof: Olivia, Meredith, Lizzy, Kalyn for putting up blocks

Textbook Award: Chloe, for playing textbook tracking back and passing within balance, running to the line and stopping, verbally taking charge when we needed it, perfect passing on short serve receive. Textbook. Exactly how it should be done.

Best Impression of a Plumber: Gabby M for an effective pipe attack

Best Dig with Aplomb: Gabby P, their outsides were hitting hard balls, you got into position and passed it up to our setters as if it was nothing. Great job!

Best Combination: Lizzy hits an overpass back, but it comes back, then Grace hits the 2 one over… and it comes back again, finally Kalyn puts it away for good on the 3rd try!

Marathon (Longest run) Award: Gabby M for serving 12 points in a row

Best Non-Primary-Passer-Pass: Ruby for coming in making a perfect pass in transition when we needed it

Best Off-Hand Hit: Lizzy for lefty dropping a ball over the net for a point.

Best Alexis Imitation: Riley and Gabby M for high, topspin freeballs deep left corner for points. (My former Princeton U player, Alexis, used to do that for points)

Best Imitation of a Tack: Chloe and Gabby M for Tack Sharp passing, straight to target.

Acute Award: Meredith for rolling tight, outside of the net sets with hard angle for points.

y=mx+b Award: Gabby M, Riley, for effectively hitting line for points

Girl Scout Award: Meredith for hitting a campfire

Best Imitation of a Bridge: Lizzy for hitting overpasses… multiple times! There is nothing more satisfying as a middle than the hit our opponent’s passing mistakes.

Protractor Awards: Sanah, Riley, Gabby M, Meredith for hitting angles

Best 2 Handed Put Down: Kat, the ball was coming over and you took both hands and put it down!

Best Lefty Dump: Olivia for jumping and hitting lefty

Best Teammates: EVERYONE, really, just wow. I am so incredibly grateful for you, how you support each other and how you’re gelling as a team.

Best Imitation of a Wall: Carmen for blocking overpasses

Non-Setter-Set: Sanah, our setter dug the first ball and it went too far from our libero, so you took charge and made a perfect set!

Best Breakfast: Grace hits a wiffle for a point

Best Hitting Adjustment: Riley for making an adjustment to your angle swing and after that, they all went in.

Best Prediction Come True: Sanah, I told Coach Brett that Sanah’s going to serve and ace… and you did!

Not Fooled Award: Gabby P and Chloe for picking up setter dumps. They did it to us once, and then every other time, you were ready and made those plays look easy.

Great Finish: Grace serves an ace on set point

Great Finish #2: Kat for hitting the ball down for match point

Cold Shoulder Award: Kalyn for serving so hard and deep with movement that it clanked off of the libero’s shoulder.

Deep Corner Award: Carmen for hitting deep left corner

Deep Corner Award #2: Grace for hitting deep right corner

Great Up! Award: Chloe and Kalyn. There are too many instances to list when you magically appeared to get the ball up. Your ball-hound instincts make the court seem much smaller.

32 Award: Lizzy, the set drifted to your left, but you simply changed your approach and hit a 32 ball, as if we’ve been practicing it for weeks

Deflation Award: Kalyn for setting a back-set-dump for a kill. There is nothing more deflating to a team when they’re all ready for an In-System play, but the ball goes in the complete opposite direction and in.

Saving Your Team Award: Meredith for tracking down low, tight and outside sets and putting up shots that were difficult for our opponents to get by rolling or pushing to spots

Little Bread Award: Lizzy, Grace, Gabby M and Meredith for hitting rolls for points

Whomp Award: Grace for absolutely crushing a ball! More importantly, you heard what Coach Brett and I were telling you, then you implemented it and the results speak for themselves.