Iron-woman award: Francesca, for playing every point on Saturday. I leaned on you for your great all-around play, your strength, your capacity to learn and your ability to make the players around you better. Thank you for stepping up and shining.

Best Imitation of a Yogi Sailor: Aleyna for making an origami boat and doing a yoga pose w/ me.

Lancelot Award: Rachel for winning a joust.

Best Punisher Impression: Anna for destroying one of their overpasses for a kill.

Best 1 Dimensional Hit: Caroline for hitting line and no one was there to get it.

Best Deep Corner Serves: Dara and Charlotte for serving to deep right corner.

Best Impressions of Deep Corner Serves with Hits: Francesca for hitting deeeeeep right corner.

Meh, that was Easy Award: Addison for making playing libero look so easy.

Best 1-2 Combination: Cadence & Dara. Cadence passes a super short ball up to Dara who turns and hits the ball.

Best Houdini Impression: Charlotte you make serving your hard serves look so easy… almost like magic.

Best Pirate Impression: Ally for pegging the setter. This is especially important because most teams do not have a good 2nd option. Great job, keep it up.

Best Gandolf Impression: Rachel for blocking a ball and saying “you shall not pass”

Best Short Award: Cadence for backrow tipping the ball over but knowing how to be below the height of the net.

Most Unusual Hit for a Point: Francesca, for forearm passing the ball over… low, with top spin and down for a winner.

Best Run of Determined Serving: Rachel. ‘Nuff said.

Deep Middle Top Spin Serves: Dara

Best Change of Serve: Aleyna, for going to exclusive jump serves and DOMINATING! Great job, keep it up.

Best Tracker Impression: Addison for tracking down an errant pass and gets it up so we could get it back over for a point.

Best In-Game Adjustment: Francesca, for seeing a gap in coverage and filling the need.

Best Change in Serve: Ally for serving cross top spin and then hitting a float down the line. They were complete caught by surprise.

Best Hard Serve: Rachel, you served the ball so hard that the passer couldn’t react and it hit her head!

Best Tack Sharp Passing: Just about everyone. Our in-game passing is one of our strengths. It keeps us in the game. Once we get going, I totally am confident about our chances.

Most Amazing Digs: Francesca. I truely don’t know how you do it. Their outsides -crushed- the ball and you manage to get down, shoulders and platform angled for some GREAT digs.

Impress of Kobe Fadeaway: Anna for falling backwards to get a set that was just a little behind you and your powered it over.

Best Bugs Bunny Changeups: Caroline and Ally for very effective tips after strong hits.

Best Mr. T Impression: Dara for hitting the left T.

Best In Game Transition Adjustment: Anna for free ball transitioning faster and faster and faster.

Best Tennis Impression: Aleyna for hitting a backhand winner.

Best Trapeze Impression: Cadence for pushing a ball over, but it hits the top tape and the ball baaaarely trickles over for a point.

Best Tip Pass: Cadence for covering a short ball that was ticketed for the ground and sending up a perfect pass for Rachel to set.

Best Self Combo: Aleyna for making a perfect pass, then hitting the ball middle-middle for a point.

The most impressive thing that I saw on Satuday: You. We hit some adversity yesterday, but you stuck with your teammates. I’ve seen teams fall apart from tournaments like this, but you kept it together. THE Most Impressive Thing is your character.

Head Hunter Award: Ashlyn for hitting the ball so hard that it almost hits the passer in the head, still not sure how she got out of the way…

Left is Right Awards: Dara and Aleyna for hitting the balls back with your left hand.

Block Party: Cadence, Dara, Aleyna, Caroline, Dara

Best OMG Where Did That Hit Come From: Ally, for hitting the balls so hard from the opposite position that they didn’t know how to react.

Best Arm Joint Award: Francesca for passing with her elbow and still got the ball up.

Best Imitation of a Speed Bump: Francesca for having a bump kill.

Best Pegging the Setter: Aleyna and Ally for hitting the setter and they were forced to hit free balls.

Best Omega Serve: Charlotte for serving and hitting the end line.

Jordan Hasay Award: Ashlyn for having the longest run of serves at 9.

Best Wow Hit: Dara, you were falling back, then you took a swing and that ball seemed to take off, but landed in the back 5′ of the court for a kill.  Very nicely done!

Best Cool Cucumber Tacks: Charlotte and Addison for taking the majority of the balls that were hit to us and giving our setters a chance to get to them AND doing it with aplomb.

Best Candy Restaurant Waitress Impression: Caroline for a sweet, sweet tip kill.

Brianna Lyston Award: Cadence for having the most short runs of serves.

Best Imitation of a Second Speed Bump: Francesca for another bump kill.

Best “I Got This”: Addison for passing and then being ready to hit the ball.

Best Annie Oakley Impression: Rachel for slinging shoot sets and for Caroline for hitting them!  <– Just wow.  THEN Ashlyn joined the party!  <– Just wow X 2!

Best Miracle Save: Caroline, that ball was ticketed to the ground and you dove and got under it for a miracle save!

Don’t Bet Against Us Award: Everyone!  We can and will come back against most anyone.

Defeated Newton Award: Ally for hitting the ball down from the 10′ line.  I’m not sure how you altered Physics, but you were able to get that ball down from what seems like an impossible angle.

y=mx+b Award: Francesca, Caroline, Ashlyn for hitting the ball down the line.

Best Adjustments on Defense: Addison, Charlotte and Francesca: Last tournament it was difficult to pick up some balls because we weren’t in a good position to make the plays.  We didn’t have a chance to go over that in practice, but today you took to the instruction within the chaos of the match and thrived!  Very, very good.

Best Imitation of another Speed Bump; Francesca for hitting yet another bump kill.

Highest Wattage Serve: Cadence, constant, unrelenting power.

Bridge Over Troubled Water Award: Caroline for pushing the ball over the defense.

Deep Corner 5 Points Award: Dara and Francesca for hitting deep right corner.

Best Vlad Guerrero Award: Caroline, the shoot set was high and outside, yet you made an mid approach adjustment at still hit it down!

Best Teammate Award: Anna, for coming to support our team when she wasn’t medically cleared to play.  <– Gold star