5/6/2023

One Armed Bandit Award: Lizzy for making an 1 armed saved.

Wizard of Oz Awards: It was a hard driven ball and Chloe passes it up, but it is ticketed for the back curtain. Sanah runs INTO the curtain to save the ball, gets it back and Riley finally puts it away! Great teamwork!

Follow the Leader Award: Chloe for following Sanah and passing the ball up so we can free ball it back… AND we got the point! Excellent team work!

y=mx+b Award: Kat for hitting line for a point

Best Imitation of a Tack: Gabby P for making Tack Sharp passing

Best Imitation of Bob the Builder: Lizzy for roofing

Houdini Award: Kalyn for your miracle disappearing dumps. Your dumps are already very good, this time you added a little jump in it and there were caught totally flat footed.

Einstein Award: Gabby M for hitting very smart and controlled hits from the middle of the court. This is exactly what we’re looking for!

Protractor Award: Lizzy, Riley, Meredith for hitting angle

Anti-Protractor Award: Kalyn, Kat, Olivia and Sanah for hitting from the other angle

Pushy Protractor Award: Gabby M for effectively pushing angle. There is a difference between just pushing angle because that is the only thing left to do, vs pushing angle that is the only thing left to do AND trying to get a point. You pushed angle, to a spot where you earned us a point.

There is I in Team Award: Sanah. 11 points in a row on serve? Wow. You saw that they dropped 5 players into serve reception AND YOU STILL ACED THEM DEEP! When I was coaching boys, I called that the Omega formation, because it was the last thing to do.

There is I in Team Award 2: Sanah. You hit, but it gets blocked back, then you follow it up with a deep push.

There is Team in I award: Everyone around Sanah, instead of standing around and watching, I seem to remember that everyone was ready to make a play on the ball, if it had gone to you. Way to go. Way to support your teammate.

P-p-p-p-pressure… NOT! Award: Olivia. I think it was 18-24 and you came up to serve. We got to 23-24 and you aced them to get us to 24-24! Awesome! Billy Joel has nothing on you!

Professor X Awards: Kalyn and Gabby M, you had served it deep and you saw that they were shading deep and on their heels. Then you dropped it short. Totally read my mind. 🙂

Meghan Trainor Awards Sanah and Gabby M for serving aces on the “base” line.

Olaf Award: Riley for serving up an Ace after a timeout and didn’t get frozen.

< Award: Carmen for hitting to the corner

Playground Award: Olivia and Lizzy for running slides

The Flash Award: Chloe for flashing in, making perfect passes and getting back into position… in a flash

Gershwin Award: Kalyn, Chloe and outsides. They were right side hitting and aiming for our setter to put us out of rhythm, but y’all ran the Setter 1st contact so well that it was like we were in rhythm anyways!

Down Ball Down Award: Gabby P for hitting a down ball from 20′

Low Bridge Award: Kalyn, the ball was hit into the trusses and you shuffled your feet and made the adjustments AND made a great set.

Van Halen Award: Meredith for hitting power jump serves. I know you didn’t get a chance to hit many, but I’m tell you… it’s coming. Most girls hit jump floats. Yes, they’re effective. but not many can hit power jump top spin serves. Keep working on it.