DYNAMIX VBC 16 BLACK

Hey there Dynamix Family!

After every tournament I will try and post a little blog update on how we did as a team plus share their stats. We’ve spent a little over a month of practicing together and we are so excited for our first tournament.

California Kickoff : Jan 20th-21st San Jose

Day 1

 Here we are bright and early and my coffee has already spilled after only being here for about 5min.. thanks a lot ref. We had three games today, started off strong with a win in a tough match taken to the third set. We fell short after that and unfortunately lost our next two matches. We struggled with communication on the court and being mentally tough. We beat ourselves and assumed the team was “better” than us before the match even started. Both matches we lost were upsetting because we didn’t play our game and had a lot of unforced errors. Even though we didn’t get the Wins we were able to learn from the matches and hopefully take this new knowledge to Day two of the tournament.

Marin Valley Jrs. : 18-25, 25-21, 15-12

Eclipse: 17-25, 17-25

Academy: 7-25 , 19-25

We had a great time at our team dinner at the Spaghetti Factory on Sunday night. Some pasta and bread with a mix of some awesome dance moves ( flossing and the worm ) in the middle of the restaurant. My abs were so sore from all the much needed laughter. Even though we had a sassy waiter and Madi had cardboard inside her fettuccini alfredo, and then Shelby and I were held hostage for 20 min for an incorrect billing issue it was all worth it.

Day 2

Another Early morning, playing first at 8 am against Aftershock whom was seeded in 2nd place. We didn’t mention that to our girls as we were ranked 44th and didn’t want them to be discouraged from the start. This was a great match! We came out on fire and won the first set 25-17. The second set, we got a little cocky and weren’t playing our game, ended up being a hot mess and ended up losing that set 14-25. On to the third set we came out on fire and won 15-8. WE ARE NOW SEEDED 2nd!!!!!

Down fall to this win was now we had a minimum of a three hour break! Ugh… this is not going to do us well. We had an early lunch and then did some team bonding. The girls had to complete a list of funny activities in 15 min.

1.  Sing the song Call me Maybe or a Justin Bieber song loudly. (video)

2.  Give ketchup or mustard to a stranger who is eating (video)

3.  Spot three Furries  (picture)

4.  Find three free items ( turn them in)

5.  Dance without music (video )

This was hilarious and a really fun team event. We didn’t play until 4.5 hours later and it was rough. We couldn’t find our rhythm, the break I believe was too long and we couldn’t find that fire that we had earlier that morning. The first match was chaos, we were able to find a little bit within us in the second set but it wasn’t enough. The team we had play was Prime and they were beatable, we had the opportunity but just couldn’t do it. All in all this was a good tournament, we had 2 wins and 3 losses. We started out at 49th seed and finished raked 11th. For our first tournament we are very proud of the team, we have a lot of work to do and only have one practice before Qualifiers.

Stats for the tournament:

Anya:  ACES: 3   KILLS: 6  ASSISTS: 4  DIGS: 13

Az:  KILLS: 4  PASSING AVERAGE: 1.20   DIGS: 5

Brynn:  KILLS: 3  PASSING AVERAGE: 1.61  DIGS 23

Caroline:   KILLS: 1   PASSING AVERAGE: 1.66   DIGS 31

Emma:   ACES: 1  KILLS: 15   BLK:1   DIGS:7

Grace:   ACES: 2  KILLS: 13  PASSING AVERAGE: 1.83  BLK:2  DIGS: 21

Madi:   ACES: 5  KILLS: 4  ASSISTS: 19  DIGS: 18

Mariah:   ACES: 1  KILLS:  7  DIGS: 7

Morgann:   ACES: 4  KILLS: 11  BLK:2  DIGS: 4

Susannah:  KILLS: 1  PASSING AVERAGE: 1.08  DIGS: 5

Signing out or now! Check back Next week for the Qualifier update.