Lake VBC U16 Blue: My Site News

The Lake Volleyball club was well represented at the recent PNQ tournament in Spokane.  The following summarizes the final standings of the various teams that competed.

Lake U12 Blue - National Division - 3rd in Silver - 7th of 8 teams (harder division of the two U12’s)

Lake U13 Blue - USA Division - 1st in Bronze - 9th of 16 teams (in the title game, they took it to 3, with the final score 19-17)

Lake U14 Blue - Open Division - 4th in Flight 3 - 21st of 23 teams - sounds like some very tough competition in the Open Division

Lake U14 Red - American Division - 4th in Gold - 4th out of 36 teams!

Lake U15 Blue - USA Division – 3rd in Gold – 3rd of 32 teams!!

Lake U15 Red - American Division – 4th in Silver – 11th of 23 teams

Lake U16 Blue - USA Division - 1st in Bronze - 22nd of 54 teams

Lake U16 Red - American Division - 3rd in Flight 2 - 23rd of 32 teams

Lake U17 Blue - USA Division – 2nd in Silver – 8th of 20 teams

After a tough second day, the U16 Blue team regrouped and won every match on Sunday, even though it took 3 sets each match to do so.  Way to battle, girls!

Sunday was not the U16 Blue team's best day of volleyball.  Whether it was the recently full moon or the early start to drive down to the venue, the entire team was a bit "off".  That said, this was still a great "team" of girls.  Even with things not going their way, there was no finger pointing nor any poor attitudes.  All girls seemed to recognize and accept responsibility for their own mistakes and were encouraging to teammates to keep playing hard.  This was especially apparent when the team was playing WVBA-16's in the first round of tournament play.  After losing the first game 25-12, the team rallyed and won the second game 27-25.  They kept battling and won the match, 15-11 in the third game. 

 In the final match of the day, Lake dropped a back and forth single game to 25 to South Hill to finish 5th in the flight.

The U16 Blue team will be in Flight 2 again for the next Power League tournament and will look to bring that same fight and positive attitude to the next round.  GO LAKE!

Round 1
Lake vs Relentless Pursuit
   15 - 6
   15 - 11
Lake vs EVA Crimson
   15 - 3
   15 - 5
Lake vs Power Surge
   15 - 13
   15 - 10
Lake vs Space Needle 16-1
   9 - 15
   15 - 11
   8 - 15

Came in seeded 8th. By finishing second in the pool, we were placed at 25th going into round two.

Round 2
Lake vs Cascade
   25 - 17
   18 - 25
   15 - 12
Lake vs Lake Tapps 15 Orange
   12 - 25
   20 - 25
Lake vs Sabotage
   25 - 14
   25 - 23

Finished second in Division 1 Round 2 Pool 7. Sunday's effort placed the team 10th overall for seeding in the first Power League tournament! 

The Lake 16 Blue team did not look like a group of girls who were largely a newly formed team. The cohesiveness and camaraderie shown by all girls along with encouragement and obvious desire to be on the court playing with and supporting their teammates was great to see. The coaches did an excellent job of keeping the girls engaged and focused on the task at hand, especially late in the day when energy levels were flagging. This was especially apparent in the first game against Sabotage where Lake came out with good energy in the last match of the day and Sabotage was a bit flat. Looking forward to a fun season of volleyball - GO LAKE!