What a finish! We played two tough teams to finish our the NESCAC and regular season, playing both Williams and Hamilton at home. We swept them both to finish strong and prepare ourselves for a run at another NESCAC Championship!
This would be our home finale so we celebrated our seniors and Jack, all of whom we will dearly miss next year. I always double check the senior's majors so we can announce it pre-game when we recognize them formally on senior night, and they caught me off guard in practice by asking me to guess at their majors....I have to say, I was either right on or very close with most, although I definitely initially was WAY off with Ali's when I mistakenly said "Econ" to which she said, "COACH!?!" And then I corrected myself saying I KNEW she was stem, and I wasn't sure how I guessed Econ, but I incorrectly said MBB when in fact she is Neuroscience! I correctly knew both Maggie (Econ) and Corley (Psychology), and I also knew Jane was stem, but didn't get Chemistry right (and only then found out she was actually President of the Chemistry Club on campus!). I have to admit, I didn't know Bella was a History major at all...not sure how I missed that, but figured she was in the Humanities. It was a good check on how well I actually know my seniors lives outside of VB, so I'll try to be a little more diligent in future at knowing just what they're studying! (I knew Jack was a double Computer Science/Japanese Studies major because we actually celebrated him last year as well!)
Now, on to the games! We knew Williams had a couple of new players that had been having great season's so far and they had big wins against both MIT and Tufts, so we knew they would be a good challenge. We really served tough and kept them mostly out of system all night, which definitely helped us neutralize their offense. We held them to a hitting % of .118 to our .234 but we didn't get the Aces advantage that we had most of the season. We kept them out of system without actually acing them, which is a testament to their receive, I think. Maggie had another double-double with 11 kills and 12 digs, while Corley (8), and Laney (7) also led our team in Kills. Katie came through with 2 aces and Lucy dominated the net with a match-high 5 blocks!
We were excited to finish the season with 20 wins, especially playing the kind of volleyball we'd started playing lately, and felt confident going into NESCAC's with the 4th seed and ready to challenge for a championship!
Our Monday practice we also celebrated Halloween with our annual costume practice. It never disappoints! :)
I love the creativity the groups display and it's always fun to see them. We had the Wizzard of Oz from the Juniors, and Heavy Metal band KISS from the seniors. Since I'm now 51 and grew up in rural Indiana at a time when big hair bands were popular as well as heavy metal bands, I'm very familiar with KISS, so that was a fun choice.
The next two classes chose animated films/shows to portray, which was
also very clever! The sophomores took me a minute to guess, but having had kids that
watched a lot of TV helped and the color choices of the costumes sealed
the deal--at least with Lexi!! (You'll have to take a good look at the team picture above to guess, but Lexi didn't have her HAT on, which along with the color scheme is a big clue....
Sophomore class = Fineas and Ferb where Lexi was "Perry the Platypus!" (Perry was my favorite storyline on the show, personally.)
Now, it's on to prepping for NESCAC's!!
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