First Tournament at the Championship Level and we found that the teams were far more evenly matched, and that made for far more fun, far closer matches!
The coaches all felt that our Semi-Final against LVC Fire Intensity was like the Gold Medal final for us. Whoever won that match would surely have the momentum to bring it home for Gold! Alas, LVC beat us in some very close sets. We were up in the second game but they came back and won a deserving victory. It was by FAR the loudest game of the year and it was great to see the 14U Stingers not intimidated at all, but dishing kill after kill right back at LVC.
In the Bronze medal match, the girls ran out of gas... and we lost in two very close sets.
After all the emotions settled down and the disappointment of losing the Bronze final was over, the coaches thought this was a great tournament for us. We showed clearly that this is the level we belong in and we showed a lot of great team progress.
Some team stats:
Kills were down slighly from 75 to 63, but Kill Errors were way down from 49 to 33.
Pass Rating went from 2.12 to 2.19 - Most notable serve receive passing improved.
Blocks were down a bit from 25 to 16.
Serve % went up from 80.3% to 80.8%
Your coaches have digested all of this and are building practice plans to improve even more!
All the best,
Donnette, Tanya and Ed