Easter Turnament

This Easter weekend, I had another volleyball tournament! It was a 3 day one, so I was very tired after we finished this week!

                It started on Friday, and I had to be at the gym at 7 o’clock, that meant waking up at 5:30 am! The good thing is I’m use to waking up that early! So when I got to the gym was very excited because we had to play 3 teams that day! Some of my team mates were still tired so the ones that were awake and I sang “Pretty Boy Swag” really loud, and all the other teams gave us weird looks; but the girls tat were tired woke up after that!

                Our first team was a really easy team! We beat them really fast in 2 games. The team after that was a much harder team. We took them to 3 games, but won that match! By then my team was really up and moving, because the next team we got to play was MAVA 13 Blue! (Blue is the team ranked higher than us at our club, the number 2 team.) My team and I had played them once before, and took them to 3 games also. But we lost, but by only 2 points! So we were really ready to beat them this time. The first game was pretty close but we won that game by 5 points! On the 2^nd game, my team just couldn’t seem to get a pass or set, so we lost that game. So then because they won one, and we won one, we had to go to a 3^rd game. We started off slow, but then picked it up at the end, but it was to late and Blue beat us by 5 points. I was VERY mad. I wasn’t mad at my team, but mad at myself, because I  felt like I could have done better.

                But when the game was over, I had tons of parents come over to me and tell me how good I did. Also my dad said people keep coming up to him and complementing me. The best thing was, lots of the parents said I should have definitely made the Blue team! So at the end of the 1^st day I was pretty mad and tired.

                The 2^nd day we had to wake up at the same time again! It was pretty hard to get going in our 1^st game. That match had to go to 3 games, so it was a long game. Then after that we had to ref, and then we got to play again. We wanted to beat the other 2 teams, because if we did, we had a very good chance of playing Blue again. Both teams were much harder, we had to take both teams to 3 games, so it lasted a long time. After winning we were excited because we got to play Blue Sunday morning!

                Turns out Sunday when we got to the gym, that we didn’t play Blue unless we beat the team that Blue was beaten by. That team was called Mawaki. Mawaki was a really good team. WE won the 1^st, but then they won the 2^nd, so we had to play another game. Sadly they won, so we didn’t get to play Blue. I was VERY mad when we lost to Mawaki. I knew we could of beat them, but we just had an off day.

                Once again as I was leaving, my dad said that parents were coming over and telling him how good I was doing, and that I should of made Blue. The owner of MAVA came over to me and was telling me that I am doing great with my hitting and blocking! One of the parents even told my dad that I would have been a good choice of right side for Elite!!!! Those comments made me feel good!