Save of the Year: Gabby M, for tracking down a shanked pass All The Way back to the black screen and getting it back to our court where we free-balled it back to give us a chance to win the point! So. Very. Good.

Tide Award: Olivia and Kalyn for setting such clean sets that we were called… maybe twice?  all weekend

Terra Cotta Shingle Award: Lizzy for putting up so many roofs!

Best Imitation of The Flash: Sanah. There was a tip that was destined to hit the floor, but you read it, flashed in and passed it up with no sweat!

Best impression of a Setter: Gabby P, Kalyn (libero), Gabby M. and Sanah when our setter was forced to receive the 1st ball, you all stepped in and passed very hittable balls to the rest of the team. You communicated really well to let the liberos know that you’re taking the ball from them. This is terrific team volleyball!

Mariana Trench Award: Carmen: hitting deep left corner for a point

Puerto Rico Trench Award: Riley and Kalyn: free balling it to deep right corner for points

Virginia Rocket Award: Grace for Walloping hits that they couldn’t return

Fridgeaire Award: Gabby M for hitting it down the line so hard that it froze the defense.

Best Imitation of Sanah: Gabby M for serving an Ace on set point

Invisible Woman Award: Kalyn, you did your patented jump-back-set-dump to their 4, about 1 foot off of the net. Not only did you fake them out, I needed a double take to see where the ball had gone! Later on, the entire work table AND coach came up to me to tell me how you had faked them out too! They were all a buzz about that play.

Einstein Award: Meredith and Grace for being smart and pushing / tipping away from the defense.

Best Imitation of Hulk: Kalyn for absolutely SMASH-ing an overpass!

Best Imitation of a Tack: Chloe, Gabby P and Gabby M for making tack sharp passes

Top is Down Award: Grace for serving top spin serves that went down

Soft Asphalt Shingle Award: Carmen, you knew you were a little late and if you did your full block, you would have been in the net, so you put up a soft block and was able to foil the attack

Best Imitation of Lizzy: Sanah for putting up blocks

-1(y)=-1(mx+b) Award: Kat for hitting down the right side line

Edison Award: Lizzy for hitting a serve with such power that it Hit the passer.

Safety Blanket Award: Everyone! Y’all covered very well today. Maybe blocks or tips that would have fallen in, you were there and put a credible effort on them.

Western Redwood Award: Olivia for jumping so tall that you out-touched Lizzy for a tip kill.

Floor General Award: Chloe for taking charge in our back row defense

Colonel John Hannibal Smith Award: Kalyn and Kat, we’re in Receive 1 and you’re running around our defense to get into front row position, the serve was shanked, but you were paying attention and was right there, behind our passers to pick up the ball and give us a chance to win a point. “I love it when a plan comes together”

Butterfly Award: Lizzy for hitting a float with so much action that it confused the passers. They had no chance

Tesla Award: Riley for serving with such power, the libero got her hands up to defend herself, not to actually make a pass!

In triangle ABC, D and E are two points on side BC such that BD=CE= and ∠BAD=∠CAE∠=∠. Prove that triangle ABC is isosceles Award: Gabby M for saving a deep set and hitting a hard angle.

Alexander Graham Bell Awards: Sanah and Kalyn for having good communication

Final Word: Team. We play as a team. We work as a team. We lose as a team. We win as a team. We TOooOOooo as a team. We sing as a team. We Cheer as a team. We Hug it out as a team. We stick together as a team.