A couple of weeks ago I went to Atlanta, Georgia for a volleyball tournament! It was the Big South Junoir Qualifiers! I had tons of fun there!
This was a 3 day tournament so I got to leave Thursday night to head up to Atlanta for the start on Friday! I was very happy with the hotel because all of the MAVA teams got to stay in the same hotel! It was fun to go in the lobby and talk to your other friends on the other team, and to gossip about the players! My room was really small, especially because I was sharing it with my mom and dad, but the beds were really cozy! Also my best friend on the team was in the room right beside me!
So, like very normal tournament morning, I wake up at 5:45 am. I do my teeth, hair, makeup, and get on my uniform and equipment! The team and I always meet down at the lobby of the hotel the day of the tournament so that we can all ride to the gym together. The gym was at the World Congress Center! I was very happy to play there because the name makes it sound even MORE cool! Our first day went really well! We beat every team that day, and they were some tough competition!
The next day was an okay day. We started the day in 5th gold, but ended up last in gold. We dropped down because we played our MAVA Elite team. They are the number one team and we are the number 3 team, so we weren’t expected to win. Now before I go on I must say that it was super unfair we had to play Elite. They are 13 year olds but play in tournaments with 16 year olds because they are so good! They haven’t lost to a 13 year old team in 2 years! THAT’S GOOD! So the first game was very close! They would get a point, then we would, then they would, then we would, and so on. The only flaw in Elite is that they seem to get mad and sad easy, so they started messing up more, the more we got in their head. But even when they are kind of mad, they still are creepy good! So we lost that game by 7 points! But that was good. Then on our 2nd game against them, we just couldn’t seem to get a pass. And everyone knows you need a pass to get a set. And you need a set to get a hit. And you need a hit to get a point. So we lost that game pretty bad, but at the end of the game one of the Elite players came over to talk to me. She is super good, but she came over and started telling me how good I did! She said she was SCHOCKED that I didn’t make Elite or Blue (the 2nd MAVA team). I thought she was super nice for doing that!
After that my team and I went across the road to the CNN building! There we eat our lunch. The building is so cool! I went there last year for a tour with Emma, but it’s still really cool to see it again! There were so many places to eat, so many offices, so many TVs, so many stores, and so many people! It was really crazy! There was no room to eat at a table, so me and some of my friends eat outside. That was really fun for 2 reasons. First of all there were two men dresses as a beaver and a squirrel! They were advertising the World Wrestling Champion Mach. WE got our picture taken with them! They were so soft! Second reason was that there were lots of pigeons outside! I love running after pigeons and scaring them! I tried to make the pigeon call, the realized I was making a Mourning Dove call! Mr. Whillimi would be so ashamed in me!
The next day was super long! We had to ref a team that had the most annoying coach ever! The first match was really close, but the coach still got mad at his players! It was the Tribe against the Wave. Tribe was the team with the mad coach! Wave was super nice and really good, and Tribe was really good but had weird players and a mean coach! On the 2nd game, the Tribe coach tried to get the other team to forfeit. The wave coach had put on the line up that the lebaro was #4, and that #4 was in the front row. (The lebaro is a passer and cannot play front row.) The Wave coach had meant to put #14 in the front row but the Tribe coach said that he could not change the line up and that the Wave team could earthier not have the lebaro play, or she had to take off her lebaro jersey and play as a normal player. So we had to have one of the professional refs come over and settle the whole thing out. That took about 30 minutes! WORST REFFING GAME EVER!
So at the end of the tournament we came in 21st out of 96 teams, so that isn’t bad at all!
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