WE ARE THE CHAMPS!!!

OK, so I know that most of my blogs have been about my jewelry, but this time I am so excited and proud of my oldest daughter and her travel club volleyball team. Yesterday, April5th, 2009, my daughter and her volleyball team had a tournament here in washington. We traveled up the night before and stayed at a Best Western hotel. We found out in the morning that the girls were missing some of their teamates, so the girls were limited to 6 players, so that meant that everyone of the girls were going to be playing all day in every match. In the morning the team had to be at the courts by 8:30am. They started playing at 9:00am and the team played all day until 6pm. Most of the time, with teenagers, they have a hard time getting up and functioning, and these girls are no different. For the match of the morning, they were able to get moving but had a hard time talking to one another on the court. They won the first and second set of matches. They then had a break and that is when they seemed to fall apart a little, because they thought that they had more time to eat before they had to play again. Unfortunately, when they went back onto the court they lost that set of matches. However, they came back in the set to win those matches. This put them into the rankings as the second best team.

We then moved into the bracket play and the games started all over again. They played the next set up matches and were able to defeat every team that they came up against. At 5pm, that team that they had lost to was the same team that they were going up against again for the Championship title of the tournament. By this time of the day the girls were so tired, so what else could they do to get themselves energized quickly.....they all sat down and eat sugar and drank some caffinated drinks. Not my idea of the right thing to do, but these are teenagers that we are talking about...LOL.

When it came time to take the court about 25 minutes after the consumption of all the sugar, the girls were hyped up and ready to play the last game of the tournament. I was so proud of these girls, they went onto that court with the intension of defeating the other team. With that one goal in mind, the girls gave it all they had, they talked on the court, they moved together and they worked so well as a team. In the end, with this being the last tournament of the season, the team WON the tournament. They were so excited and the parents were so proud of the girls that we took them all out of ice cream at DQ.

I have found that these tournaments and team sports for the youth players have been so good for my daughter. It teaches them team spirit, team work, and how to have good sportsmenship. I highly encourage any community sports activity to any child that is interested in trying something new.

CONTRAGULATIONS MT. ADAMS TRAVEL VOLLEYBALL TEAM!!!!!!!