This past weekend I went to Edmonton with the volleyball team I help coach. It was a training tournament for the girls to get experience playing together (their first time) and to play higher calibre volleyball. The tournament was in Edmonton, so Veronica came up from Smith on Wednesday for a couple practices before we all flew down on Friday. Our games on Saturday were at the University of Alberta, and the girls did so well! They played four games, which is amazing. We left the hotel at 6:50am to make it to the first game and their last game wasn't until 5pm! Long day!
The girls did so well, their first game against Taber Wham! was a little of a struggle, but that was to be expected - first game jitters, unsure of what to expect. Then they went on to win their next two games against Edmonton FOG and Peace River Storm. The girls were on top of the world! As they should have been. Those first three games were their round robin games, which would place them for the play off games. Surprisingly they came in 2nd in the pool! That result just blew my expectations, and their own, out of the water! They were placed into the Championship side and played Lethbridge for their last game of the day.
Sunday morning we had another early game, this time against the 17U Wham! team. It was a pretty close match up, but frustration was a little on the high side. The last game was against another FOG team, and was such a good game! Unfortunately the scores were 23-25, we just couldnt scrape that last win!Overall the girls places 27th out of 66 teams! 66 Alberta teams no less! What an accomplishment!
Sunday afternoon we obviously spent at West Ed, where I bought a couple dresses for the up coming wedding, and we dined at Earls for our team dinner.
Planning begins for the rest of the season! I'm so excited, I'm gonna plan some team building events - camping, costume party, scavenger hunt, and I need some more ideas!
The debates on so I'm done!
