Professional Bowlers Association Award: Carmen, the ball was rolling on the top of the net from our left to right and you stuck with it, tapped the ball over, without hitting the net! Great body control and net awareness.

1 Armed Bandit Award: Chloe the ball was hit to your left and it seemed like you turned all the way around, fully extended your arm and made a perfect pass. Plays like this have the opposing coaches saying how difficult it is to play against us because it seems like we pick everything up.

32 Degree Award: Gabby M, all day, you were pounding the serves. They were expecting these balls to be hard and you dropped a low and short serve. They didn’t move until after the ball had bounced in front of them.

Impossible Hit Award: Carmen, in the last point of the final’s 1st set, you hit / tipped the ball to our left and it landed about 3″ from the mid line and 6″ from the sideline. That is impossible to defend, unless the blocker was there.

Protractor Award: Grace for hitting hard angles

2 D Award: Grace, Riley, Gabby M, Kat and Olivia for hitting line shots from both sides of the court. 

Best Imitation of Thumper Award: Meredith for thumping hard hits.

Pinball Award: Meredith for serving a ball so hard, that the first passer ducked and almost did a split, she did touch the ball to the passer behind her who shanked it into the back of the first player.

Gravity Award: Sanah for coming back into coverage. They though that they could take advantage our middle, but you were there and covered the whole area, as the ball was coming down you collapsed your legs, but kept your platform got up some perfect passes. 

Billards Award: Gabby M and Carmen for hitting deep corner, no one was there, earning a point!

Life Preserver Award: Sanah and Riley for hitting amazing float serves.

I Got You Award: Carmen and Sanah, in separate rallies you took 75-80% of the hits in a rally and in the end you prevailed by winning the rally.

Lego Award: Lizzy for making and tooling blocks

Team Award: Really all of you. When someone makes a mistake you pick each other up. Then you talk it over and figure out how to prevent it from happening the next time. Awesome!

Waitress Award: Kalyn for tipping the ball over for a point.

On Time Award: Sanah, receiving in Rotation 1 is always hard because you have to go so far around. The serve came, you ran all the way around and was on time and ready for the set.

Bridge Award: Lizzy and Carmen for hitting or tipping overpasses back over for points.

Peg Award: Just about everyone! One of the keys to our success was we were able to make the setter take the first ball. This immediately took their best setting option away from them. You saw it against both Ocean and Impact. Very smart and winning volleyball strategy.

Redirection Award: Chloe for tracking down a pass that was redirected off of the ceiling.

On the Spot Award: Lizzy, we asked you to serve… cold. And you stepped up and served great! Let’s keep this up.

Consistent Tack Sharp Passing: Chloe, Gabby M and Kalyn. Your coverage and passing make everything else easy.

Coverage Award: Chloe. Up, down, back and forth we saw you cover everything. This does not show up in the stats line, but it is the foundation of winning volleyball.

Future Planning Award: Grace. Tipping in for points and then in a timeout had the idea to tip deep as they were expecting short tips. Great having a plan to win.

1 is First Award: Sanah for effectively serving down the line to 1.

Bumping Award: eveyrone! This isn’t an award about passing, it is about team chemistry and the hip bumping, hand slapping and all of the other “stuff” that y’all do in between points. Great! Love it!

Inelastic Collision Award: Riley serves the ball so hard that their 2 setters both go for the pass and collide which gives us point.

Body Control Award: Gabby M for having great body control in making effective hits with tight or low sets. All of this while staying out of the net!

Body Control Award part 2: Everyone! While highlighting Gabby M’s actions, we played a remarkably clean tournament. Maybe we were called for 1? 2? net violations? 0 foot faults. 1? 2? doubles? Excellent.

Best Lefty hit: Olivia, you hit cross court at the opposing setter. That is great! Keep that up.

Last words: Congratulations to Riley for earning a chicken. Sanah and Meredith for earning ice creams!

Last Last word: Good job, keep up the hard work, focus on improving your game as we hope to win against stronger competition!