Tues. - Day Three of Competition

Day 3

Overall, today was a long and challenging day for the club. The highlight of the day was the 14-1’s sweeping their pool play to take 1st in their pool and maintain the 47th seed to continue Thursdays divisional pool play.

Many of our teams, again, held their seed from Tuesday’s pool play. Our girls are playing hard and are hanging in there as they conclude day 3 of their competition. We continue to play very competitive teams throughout our age groups as we prepare for the final 2 days of play.

Injuries have plagued both of our 16’s team’s (knee’s and ankle’s) as the grind of the long volleyball week takes it’s toll. Coming out of Monday’s pool play, our 16-1’s team took over the #5 seed of the tournament to start off the day on Tuesday. Thumb and ankle injuries to key players challenged their ability to play at 100% and forced one to end her Festival tournament early on Tuesday with a severely sprained ankle. The team played hard to make up the injuries, however, it did not pan out as well as Monday, as the team ended up falling to 26th by the end of the day.

The medical staff and sports trainers at the convention center have their job cut out for them over the course of Festival as they estimate miles and miles of sports tape and plastic wrap and over a million pounds of ice for various injuries.