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  1. Mostly integrity. I believe there's a way to challenge if an opponent is stacking the courts in an advantageous way, but I don't know how that's hashed out with the officials.
  2. Haha agree. Serving has been very rough so far. Probably some butterflies. Chloe almost hit the ref on one
  3. Surlyhorns is on site
  4. Meant to type this up after the late March tournament in Austin, but lost track of time. I'm pretty sure I wrote something like the following… And if I didn't do it here, I'll claim I did somewhere else. There is a progression here: You learn to lose - this means you learn how to learn from your mistakes. Mistakes at all levels - on the court, lineups, coaching prep, off the court, culture You learn to win - this means you're applying those lessons learned, but you don't yet have the focus to win consistently. Therefore, you're above 0.500, but drop games you should win You learn to win consistently - At this point the only things keeping you from winning it all are players maximizing their potential, minor adjustments in strategy, and bad bounces. We saw this evolution with football the past few years. I think Metzger has this team setting foot into the "win consistently" tier. I don't think we're firmly there yet despite the ranking. A few other observations from the [looks at calendar and hangs head] Mar 21-22 weekend. Parmelly has way above average vision/anticipation. Odd to see Ava go from Ct 1 last year to 5 this year, but with all the turnover not shocking. She won't wow you with raw athleticism, but she's pretty fundamentally sound, which works well on Ct 5 where opponents tend to make unforced errors I'm sure I said it last year, but I hope Wright works on her focus because she has a lot of physical talent to unleash if she pulls it all together Coach Akers probably used the word "focus" fifty times that weekend when talking to the girls. Goes back to my point above about winning consistently. Charles has a pretty good left hand Maybe it's just me and who I have/haven't watched, but have the 1s across the country regressed this year? Asking because I'm not recalling the Kraft/VanWinkle/Maple types from recent years getting into AVP main draws I'm curious how our 1s and 2s fare against one another in practice. I'd guess they are about even? There can't be many things in sports fandom more frustrating than sitting at Ct 2, watching your team lose a point, turn to Ct 1, seeing your team lose that point, and then turning to Ct 3 and seeing your team lose a point there all in about 20 seconds. Hell, I probably saw that across five Cts the first season and I blocked it from my memory I really like the three Ct setup instead of 5. You can see more as a fan. I'm sure the coaches prefer it as they can be present at all matches. The tension builds much more with two waves of matches.. Even if one team wins 4s and 5s, you can get compelling comeback potential in the second wave. The first year, I traveled thousands of miles to watch them go 1-12. The next year, I traveled thousands of miles to watch them go 7-8. This year, I traveled thousands of miles and watched them beat the #13, #11, and #2 ranked teams all in the same weekend. On my way to Gulf Shores now to see how we cap off this season 🤘 Anyone else going?
  5. Forgot to post yesterday. Surly is onsite. More thoughts to post when I get back to the computer
  6. Anyone at Whitaker this afternoon or tomorrow? I plan to be there both days.
  7. Anyone go out to see the scrimmage? Any lineup insights? Looks like Hashman/Robertson and Presley/Ogden, which were pairings we saw often last yr. Curious who they had running with Devin.
  8. During the AVP season, yes. At the end of 2024, Toni and Molly played a few international tournaments together: https://en.volleyballworld.com/beachvolleyball/competitions/beach-pro-tour/news/third-time-is-a-charm-for-shaw-toni
  9. Heard the injury was pickleball related? Big opportunity for Molly. She's been stuck in the middle of the AVP main draw crowd for yrs. I think she's been playing with Toni Rodriguez lately and they had some good results, which may have caught Kelly's attention. Suspect Kelly's partner search was limited with the other littles figuring or being told this was temporary until Sara gets back.
  10. Well, they announced the 2025 season... and of course the AVP website is not updated after the news being out several days. They wonder why they can't make money... 🤦‍♂️ Way too heavy on the league events in my opinion. I get that they decided the tournament format isn't financially viable, but I really struggle to see how the league events are. After going to a handful of tournaments every year, I haven't been to a single league event, so I can't tell what revenue they're generating there. Can't help but think there are ways to make the tournaments work. From Sandcast, it sounds like they bumped up the payouts for the league, so there should be decent competition to get into that. But those who don't get into the league are polishing resumes? Are we going to see higher level talent at the contender events?
  11. Schedule dropped. Finally getting a full length schedule and they aren't skimping on SoS. We play every team that finished top 12 last season at least once and get multiple twice. https://texaslonghorns.com/sports/wbvball/schedule/2025
  12. Continuing to piece our schedule together as other teams post their schedules. Thanks to Shadow for getting the ball rolling. Mar 7-8 Fort Worth TCU, FSU, FAU, & Boise Mar 21-22 Austin LSU, ASU, Georgia State Apr 4-5 Tallahassee FSU, LSU, USCe, USF, FAU Apr 25-26 Baton Rouge CCSA Championship May 2-4 Huntington Beach NCAA Championship
  13. Noted. I'll try to swing out there for it. Hopefully our schedule is released soon. Last year, we tried piecing it together as other schools released their schedules.
  14. Registration link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/utexasparticipant?key=BWKT-5P785_K9KH-5PTF_393f6df5798f&fbclid=IwY2xjawFZpPlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQ8Se_wQPXPlXHAKj1acwe4tyfo4eLOAYC7Dbb97J8r5stYFm4dPxvJrXg_aem_DDmetewRdP2nndzr8PWfaA
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