Volleyball!

 As many of you know, I Love Volleyball!!! It's a game of complete control, and you set the tempo. I play for the OJVA Red team, and this weekend we had our final Power League Tournament. Every team in CEVA volleyball has a rank, or seed. At Power League tournaments, how you play and finish determines your rank and the division you will compete in at regionals. This week we were ranked 83, just one spot away from moving up and entire division. With this being the last qualifier before regionals, it was crucial that we preformed well.  When playing in one of these qualifying tournaments, you start the day off in pool play, where you play against three other teams. Then depending on how you finish, you get put into brackets. The top two in the highest bracket, (first and second in that division) move up to the next division. The bottom two move down a division. In our pool, we were ranked second, and easily beat our first opponent, the number four ranked Pirates. The other two teams were more difficult, and both matches went to third games. But we continued to win and finished first in our pool, securing us a place to play for first, second, third, or fourth. By that point in the day, we were tired...waking up at FOUR in the morning and playing volleyball is no fun...so our only way to stay energized were these little jello things called shot blocks. 

They literally give you this little adrenalin shot, and after downing about four of them each, we were bouncing off the walls! The first round of bracket play was intense. Whoever won was guaranteed to move up a division! In a nail biting third game, we were able to pull out the win! You could hear our screams for miles! Our team continued on to win the tournament(and the little goodie bags that went with it!). It was amazing and I loved every moment of it! No matter how we do at regionals, I need to thank every one of these girls who made the season so fantastic! 

You Girls are Amazing!