Last Volleyball Tournament

This weekend I traveled to Dallas with my friend, Coach Niestradt, to take my 14s pink volleyball team to the Lonestar National Qualifier tournament.  It's a huge volleyball tournament held in the convention center, where about 100 courts are set up and played on for three days straight.  It is the most amazing thing to see!  One of my parents described it very well: Imagine one of those toys that toddlers have - the one with the plastic dome over the top, where, when you push it around, little colored balls pop up and bounce around.  That's what it is like when you walk into the gym - only it's HUGE and there are hundreds of people too!  So, Niestradt and I drove up to Dallas on Thursday night (late, just like always) and got ready to coach the teams on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

My team had its ups and downs, but overall, they played the best that I have ever seen them play since the beginning of the season.  I was really proud of them!  We ended up coming in second place in the silver bracket, which ranked us 8th out of the 24 teams in our division.  All of my girls are going to be trying out for their high school teams in the fall, so I hope they keep up the great work and keep playing over the summer.  I was excited for them, as we had had our struggles throughout the season.  I was really glad to see them play so well.  I also had the chance to see some of my kids from last year play on the 13s team - it was soo fun to see how much they had grown and how much they had improved in the sport!!  I also had the chance to fill all my parents from last year in on the engagement and my plans for the wedding!  All in all, it was a good weekend.

Here's a picture of my team from earlier in the season:

This will probably be my last volleyball team to coach for while, at least until I can figure out what the city of Del Rio might need!  I don't want to coach on the school team in Del Rio that is probably going to require a lot of travel time outside of the city, and there aren't any club teams in Del Rio.  I'm thinking it might be nice to just spend some time with Travis instead!

So here are the final countdowns that remain:

TAKS test - check! (scores come out in  a week!)

Track season - over! (2nd place in the district!)

Volleyball season - over!

33 days until the end of the school year

96 days until the wedding