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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Power League Qualifier
So here we go, the first power league of the year! Qualifier always makes me nervous because with 14s you never know where you supposed to be until you start playing.
We were ranked the top team out of the 16 teams that were at our particular location so this kinda hurt us as we only stood to move down in ranking or hold seed!
Since we were a one seed in our pool we played first against the 3 seed, Pirate 14 Gold. This was a game that made me extremely nervous. I remember playing this team last year and getting destroyed. They are from the Coos Bay area so they draw all the talent which makes them dangerous. Well game one it was ugly. But not because they were beating us but because it looked like we wanted to be in bed still. We struggled on serve receive and as a result got dominated 15-25. I got them fired up in the huddle and things changed in game two. Right from the beginning we came out firing with out serves and got a quick 4-0 lead. We pushed hard all game, passing better and serving better. We won game 2 easily 25-14. We had taken the momentum back. Game three was not easy but we battled all game. We won 15-13 in game three.
The next match was against PDX 14 Forrest. I thought that we should handle this team easily based on what I saw in previous games. But we were still a little sleepy and trying to figure out how to play as a team. We lost game one in a terrible passing performance 20-25. We cleaned it up in game 2 and 3 winning both easily. 25-18, 15-8. We were starting to get better on the day but we had a long way to go.
Next was the team I was most afraid of, the Sharks. They had some big hitters, a good setter and good defenders. One of our team goals was to compete better with this team. They had beat us badly the week before and we needed to play better. We did! The passing was improved and the serving as well. We gave them to many points on mistakes. We lost 17-25, 22-25. Both games we could have won if we cut down on the mistakes.
So we moved from 34 to 47 in Power League. Our first match was against Asics Athena to move back to 36. We were very evenly matched and it made for a great game. We battled hard all game. They were good defensively which made for a lot of great rallies. We lost game 1 22-25, won game 2 25-20 and lost game 3 15-17. We lost game three on three strait missed serves. We gave it away.
So we ended up staying 47th. We were to play one more match against Willamette Valley Gold to move to spot 42. They were not great but we played poorly too. We passed a 1.2 on serve receive and missed 8 serves but still won 25-20, 25-17. So we moved back up to 42.
We did not reach all of our goals on the day but I still felt good. Our two main goals were to stay in the 30's and compete with the sharks. We definitely competed with the sharks but we fell just short of the 30s.
My player of the tournament was easy! Amira played the best I have seen her play. Her feet were moving on defense! She was getting kills! I was so impressed, especially in that match against Asics Athena! Nice Work AMIRA!!!
We ended up one spot above 13 Gold so we are going to see them at our first Power League which will be fun. Next up is LOCOS in Estacada! See you then!!
Cheers,
Geoff
We were ranked the top team out of the 16 teams that were at our particular location so this kinda hurt us as we only stood to move down in ranking or hold seed!
Since we were a one seed in our pool we played first against the 3 seed, Pirate 14 Gold. This was a game that made me extremely nervous. I remember playing this team last year and getting destroyed. They are from the Coos Bay area so they draw all the talent which makes them dangerous. Well game one it was ugly. But not because they were beating us but because it looked like we wanted to be in bed still. We struggled on serve receive and as a result got dominated 15-25. I got them fired up in the huddle and things changed in game two. Right from the beginning we came out firing with out serves and got a quick 4-0 lead. We pushed hard all game, passing better and serving better. We won game 2 easily 25-14. We had taken the momentum back. Game three was not easy but we battled all game. We won 15-13 in game three.
The next match was against PDX 14 Forrest. I thought that we should handle this team easily based on what I saw in previous games. But we were still a little sleepy and trying to figure out how to play as a team. We lost game one in a terrible passing performance 20-25. We cleaned it up in game 2 and 3 winning both easily. 25-18, 15-8. We were starting to get better on the day but we had a long way to go.
Next was the team I was most afraid of, the Sharks. They had some big hitters, a good setter and good defenders. One of our team goals was to compete better with this team. They had beat us badly the week before and we needed to play better. We did! The passing was improved and the serving as well. We gave them to many points on mistakes. We lost 17-25, 22-25. Both games we could have won if we cut down on the mistakes.
So we moved from 34 to 47 in Power League. Our first match was against Asics Athena to move back to 36. We were very evenly matched and it made for a great game. We battled hard all game. They were good defensively which made for a lot of great rallies. We lost game 1 22-25, won game 2 25-20 and lost game 3 15-17. We lost game three on three strait missed serves. We gave it away.
So we ended up staying 47th. We were to play one more match against Willamette Valley Gold to move to spot 42. They were not great but we played poorly too. We passed a 1.2 on serve receive and missed 8 serves but still won 25-20, 25-17. So we moved back up to 42.
We did not reach all of our goals on the day but I still felt good. Our two main goals were to stay in the 30's and compete with the sharks. We definitely competed with the sharks but we fell just short of the 30s.
My player of the tournament was easy! Amira played the best I have seen her play. Her feet were moving on defense! She was getting kills! I was so impressed, especially in that match against Asics Athena! Nice Work AMIRA!!!
We ended up one spot above 13 Gold so we are going to see them at our first Power League which will be fun. Next up is LOCOS in Estacada! See you then!!
Cheers,
Geoff
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Regional Sports Center
Alright family, here it is!
The first blog post after one of our tournaments. It was our first tournament and being a team that had only scrimmaged once we needed to use this day to come together as a team. Also we needed to see where we were strong and where we were weak. After these days both of those questions were answered.
Game 1 was against a team called Mid Valley Area 2. They were the 4 seed in the pool and I think that they deserved that spot. We are an incredibly tough serving team and I think that was a little overwhelming for them. We had 16 aces and only 7 total serving errors for both games. Chasity had 6 aces to lead the team. Chase was our kills leader with 3 total for the game. The final scores were 25-12 and 25-20.
The second match was against the 3 seed in the pool, The Sharks. This team was way under seeded and much better than we anticipated. This was a good lesson game for us. They were tall and handled our serves a lot better than the first team. This was the first time we played a team that had some hitters. I think we lost sight of our goals when it comes to base positions and hustle because we seemed to forget what we were doing. We passed awful and as a result we struggled. We had 27 zero passes. A zero pass is when we can make no play on the ball like a shank or error. That is basically 27 points that we gave them without making any sort of attempt to get the ball back in play on their side of the court. We only has 4 aces, 2 from Rachel, and 6 misses. Our kill leader was Kendra with 2! We lost 13-25 and 13-25. It should be noted that this team ended up winning the whole tournament.
The third and final match of pool play was against North Bend. Watching this team while reffing I thought we were better. But we did not play like it. We got out of sync from the 2nd game and struggled with the same stuff. Out passing was slightly improved but only slightly. We only had 8 aces and 10 misses in this game. 10 missed serves in 2 games in unacceptable and gave them 10 points they did not earn. Rachel, Chase and Kaelyn Large all had 3 kills in this match! Nice work there. We split games 25-27 and 28-26. This is a team we should have beat easy but we struggled to get it done.
So now we were on to bracket play. We were the top seed in our bracket so we had a buy in the first round. We ended up playing a Corvallis club. Unfortunately my stat taker had to leave so I lost that ability but I still can give my impressions of the game. Corvallis was not great and once again we served them off the court. Chase and Alexia had a ton of aces in this match. We beat them 25-12 and 25-13.
So it was on to the final match against North Pacific Juniors. This club is run by a friend of mine and I know they are ranked about 10 spots ahead of us in powerleague. So this was going to be a challenge for us but I was excited to play them! We serve received a lot better in this game, maybe the best we have yet. The serving was kinda iffy as we seemed to miss serves at the wrong times. Chasity had a nice run in the first game to get us back in and Kaelyn Large has some great serves in game to to keep us close. They were a good team and we fought hard. In the end we came up short in both games 18-25 and 22-25. Both games were close around the 18 point mark and in the end they finished better than us.
We need to work on where we are supposed to be on defense and transitions. There was to much standing the court and not enough moving the ball. We have good hitters and setter, we need to get our passing squared away and we are going to be fine. There were elements of good passing but the girls are still working on being where they are supposed to be on court. It will get there and we will see some exciting volleyball.
Player of the tournament is going to Kaelyn Large and Chasity Bohman.
Chasity set beautifully this tournament but above that she was a wonderful server. She was by far our ace leader and served critical runs in games when we needed her. She is great at hitting the spots that I tell her to. Good work this weekend
Kaelyn is a natural leader. She is a great passer and has a awesome arm swing. Once we get her making a full approach she is going to be a feared hitter. She also has a nasty serve that was critical for us this weekend! Good job Kaelyn.
A couple of notes that I would like to make. I look for girls to be smart when they are on the court. What I mean by that is paying attention to what the other team is doing and taking advantage of that. Alexia gave me a great smile when I was calling her to serve zone 5 (down the line) She got a few aces on the player. I called zone 5 again but did not notice that they had subbed a new player in that spot to stop the bleeding. She noticed and I did not. She made sure to point it out to me so I could re-evaluate and chose a new zone. It made me smile and gave me pride! Nice work Alexia!
I am greatly encouraged. We have so much potential that is always coming through. This team is going to develop into a dangerous team. We know exactly what we need to work on and it is all muscle memory stuff. These girls have the skill, we just need to get them moving on defense! I also want to say that I was trying a lot of different line ups this weekend. I got a good idea of who can do what with which players. The line up will settle down a little bit as we move into Power League.
Cheers,
Geoff
The first blog post after one of our tournaments. It was our first tournament and being a team that had only scrimmaged once we needed to use this day to come together as a team. Also we needed to see where we were strong and where we were weak. After these days both of those questions were answered.
Game 1 was against a team called Mid Valley Area 2. They were the 4 seed in the pool and I think that they deserved that spot. We are an incredibly tough serving team and I think that was a little overwhelming for them. We had 16 aces and only 7 total serving errors for both games. Chasity had 6 aces to lead the team. Chase was our kills leader with 3 total for the game. The final scores were 25-12 and 25-20.
The second match was against the 3 seed in the pool, The Sharks. This team was way under seeded and much better than we anticipated. This was a good lesson game for us. They were tall and handled our serves a lot better than the first team. This was the first time we played a team that had some hitters. I think we lost sight of our goals when it comes to base positions and hustle because we seemed to forget what we were doing. We passed awful and as a result we struggled. We had 27 zero passes. A zero pass is when we can make no play on the ball like a shank or error. That is basically 27 points that we gave them without making any sort of attempt to get the ball back in play on their side of the court. We only has 4 aces, 2 from Rachel, and 6 misses. Our kill leader was Kendra with 2! We lost 13-25 and 13-25. It should be noted that this team ended up winning the whole tournament.
The third and final match of pool play was against North Bend. Watching this team while reffing I thought we were better. But we did not play like it. We got out of sync from the 2nd game and struggled with the same stuff. Out passing was slightly improved but only slightly. We only had 8 aces and 10 misses in this game. 10 missed serves in 2 games in unacceptable and gave them 10 points they did not earn. Rachel, Chase and Kaelyn Large all had 3 kills in this match! Nice work there. We split games 25-27 and 28-26. This is a team we should have beat easy but we struggled to get it done.
So now we were on to bracket play. We were the top seed in our bracket so we had a buy in the first round. We ended up playing a Corvallis club. Unfortunately my stat taker had to leave so I lost that ability but I still can give my impressions of the game. Corvallis was not great and once again we served them off the court. Chase and Alexia had a ton of aces in this match. We beat them 25-12 and 25-13.
So it was on to the final match against North Pacific Juniors. This club is run by a friend of mine and I know they are ranked about 10 spots ahead of us in powerleague. So this was going to be a challenge for us but I was excited to play them! We serve received a lot better in this game, maybe the best we have yet. The serving was kinda iffy as we seemed to miss serves at the wrong times. Chasity had a nice run in the first game to get us back in and Kaelyn Large has some great serves in game to to keep us close. They were a good team and we fought hard. In the end we came up short in both games 18-25 and 22-25. Both games were close around the 18 point mark and in the end they finished better than us.
We need to work on where we are supposed to be on defense and transitions. There was to much standing the court and not enough moving the ball. We have good hitters and setter, we need to get our passing squared away and we are going to be fine. There were elements of good passing but the girls are still working on being where they are supposed to be on court. It will get there and we will see some exciting volleyball.
Player of the tournament is going to Kaelyn Large and Chasity Bohman.
Chasity set beautifully this tournament but above that she was a wonderful server. She was by far our ace leader and served critical runs in games when we needed her. She is great at hitting the spots that I tell her to. Good work this weekend
Kaelyn is a natural leader. She is a great passer and has a awesome arm swing. Once we get her making a full approach she is going to be a feared hitter. She also has a nasty serve that was critical for us this weekend! Good job Kaelyn.
A couple of notes that I would like to make. I look for girls to be smart when they are on the court. What I mean by that is paying attention to what the other team is doing and taking advantage of that. Alexia gave me a great smile when I was calling her to serve zone 5 (down the line) She got a few aces on the player. I called zone 5 again but did not notice that they had subbed a new player in that spot to stop the bleeding. She noticed and I did not. She made sure to point it out to me so I could re-evaluate and chose a new zone. It made me smile and gave me pride! Nice work Alexia!
I am greatly encouraged. We have so much potential that is always coming through. This team is going to develop into a dangerous team. We know exactly what we need to work on and it is all muscle memory stuff. These girls have the skill, we just need to get them moving on defense! I also want to say that I was trying a lot of different line ups this weekend. I got a good idea of who can do what with which players. The line up will settle down a little bit as we move into Power League.
Cheers,
Geoff
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Break Practices and Beyond
Thanks for coming to the break practices ladies! I was impressed what we were able to accomplish during the time that we were there! I am hoping that we will have our full team there for the remaining 4 practices before our first tournament on Jan 16th.
Lets all wear black on Monday.
I talked to everyone on the limo ride and they said they had black but there were a few that were not there. If you do not have black just wear a dark blue or green or dark color. I figure maybe we should change from white every time :)
Remember that we need to up our communication and overall volume these next two weeks.
Bring the focus these next two weeks because we are going to beat teams by being better in practice than anyone else!!
See you monday!!
Cheers,
Geoff
Lets all wear black on Monday.
I talked to everyone on the limo ride and they said they had black but there were a few that were not there. If you do not have black just wear a dark blue or green or dark color. I figure maybe we should change from white every time :)
Remember that we need to up our communication and overall volume these next two weeks.
Bring the focus these next two weeks because we are going to beat teams by being better in practice than anyone else!!
See you monday!!
Cheers,
Geoff
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Winter Break Practices
As it stands right now we will be having practices Monday the 28th and Wednesday the 30th at Noon. Let's all wear white again since it seems we do not yet have any other color that we all have.
My cell is 914-4611. Please add it to your phones and txt me and let me know who you are. Thanks! See you Monday!!
Geoff
My cell is 914-4611. Please add it to your phones and txt me and let me know who you are. Thanks! See you Monday!!
Geoff
Monday, December 7, 2009
Second Week
Girls,
Thanks for a good first week of practice. We have not had our whole team but I expect that we will soon :). Let's focus this week! Remember we are going to win matches this year because we practice harder and better than the teams we play. See you at practice!
Geoff
Thanks for a good first week of practice. We have not had our whole team but I expect that we will soon :). Let's focus this week! Remember we are going to win matches this year because we practice harder and better than the teams we play. See you at practice!
Geoff
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Welcome 14 Green
Last year I started a new trend in the Webfoot coaching community and that was the very thing that you are looking at! A Blog! I think that is a wonderful way for me to communicate to parents and players what is going on with our team! A lot of grandparents and friedns find it a good way to check up on the girls that they love if they cannot be at tournaments or games.
The way that it will work is that I will update the blog after each tournament with a recap of the days events and I generally award one or two girls with a "Player of the Tournament" award for their outstanding efforts!
It is also an excellent way for me to post pictures of the girls and fans. As you will learn I am kind of obsessed with photography and even have my own small buisness.
I look forward to this year! See you all soon!!!!!
The way that it will work is that I will update the blog after each tournament with a recap of the days events and I generally award one or two girls with a "Player of the Tournament" award for their outstanding efforts!
It is also an excellent way for me to post pictures of the girls and fans. As you will learn I am kind of obsessed with photography and even have my own small buisness.
I look forward to this year! See you all soon!!!!!
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