When does 20 minutes = 8 minutes?
Another tournament visited, another tough day on the court. UW-Platteville was the site of last weekend’s volleyball tournament for the Wisconsin Performance 16s Black team. Leaving the house at 7, we made the trek to Platteville (never been) and found the fieldhouse easily – Thank you, Garmin. To all tournament hosts: Could we trouble you [...]
A few wins
The wins are few, so we should enjoy them. The Marshall volleyball squad is nearing the end of their season, and they’ve notched a whopping 2 match wins thus far. New Glarus and Westfield fell to the mighty Cardinals; both were away wins. There is one more chance for the girls to win at home [...]
Schmoomer?
There are many good things about Hannah playing setter on her school’s volleyball team. Namely, she is a pivotal player in a leadership position on the court, she’s involved (or should be) in every play, and she’s getting great position work in for her future playing days. Did I mention she’s involved in nearly every [...]
Lace ‘em up, first match
Here I am spending part of my Sunday strolling through the videos from Thursday night’s volleyball matches between Marshall, Mayville, and Columbus. Hannah got her first start as the setter on the Marshall Varsity squad and they did OK. Even though they only won one game that evening, they were competitive in most games. Luckily, [...]
Summer’s Over
According to the girl’s’ schedules, I think we can declare summer over. At high schools all across the state of Wisconsin this week, girls are are digging through their long-forgotten volleyball bags looking for their shoes, kneepads, tape, etc. Volleyball practice (two-a-day!) began in Marshall Monday with a morning conditioning practice followed by an afternoon [...]
Summer continues
We’re sort of in a lull (just for today), so I thought I’d give a quick summertime update. Chronologically speaking… Hannah had a great time at volleyball camp at UW-Whitewater two weeks ago. Even though she was a little under the weather on the final day, she got much needed work as a setter. A [...]
Hannah’s first tournament
As I’m sure I mentioned previously, Hannah, too, is playing club volleyball this winter. It’s her second year spending the off-season getting more playing time and improving her skills. It proved extremely valuable for her last year when she stepped on the court as a freshmen and was a leader on the JV team. Playing [...]
Clare’s first tournament
Now that the club volleyball season is in full swing, our weekends are filling up quickly. As was previously posted, Clare is participating in volleyball this year for Midwest Juniors on their 13s Blue team. The team travelled to Oregon, WI last weekend to play in their first tournament of the year. There were two [...]
Club volleyball is under way
This past Sunday, Midwest Juniors hosted a mostly intrasquad scrimmage among their various teams. The pools were divided by age and, luckily for us, the girls both played at the same time (but not against each other). Hannah is playing on a 15s Regional team this year and Clare is with the lone 13s squad. [...]
Back to Midwest Juniors (again and again)
…meaning that both Hannah and Clare have accepted offers to play with the Midwest Juniors volleyball club this season. Hannah played with this club last year and gained a ton of experience while improving her game tremendously. With no basketball for the first time in a long time, this will be Hannah’s only sport during [...]
