A HUGE thanks goes out to CVC and Blackswamp for coming to Toledo for our scrimmage on Saturday. What a fun day of solid volleyball, solid competition all for free with no one having to get up too early or get home too late!
Overall I must admit that i was pleasantly surprised at how well our girls competed with the power houses that came over to play us. With only 8 practices under our belts and almost no work on offensive or defensive systems, I honestly thought we’d get our butts handed to us 
We started off against CVC and for the first hour we just did 5 serves in each rotation to each side. This allowed both teams to work through their serve receive patterns. CVC worked pretty hard at running some different combo plays while we simply got our switches down and worked on good clean transition. We really held our own during this portion of the scrimmage. We passed fairly well, ran some pretty good basic offense and learned a lot about reading on defense and fronting hitters at the net. Perhaps our most impressive showing was from the service line. We have several servers that are firing bb’s that float like crazy!
for the last 20 mins or so against CVC we played an actual scored game. It was very interesting to see how different our girls played in their first scored game against competition. Let’s just say having a scrimmage like this BEFORE official competition was a good idea Learning that we don’t change how we play just because there is a scoreboard involved will be very important to our development! Thanks again to CVC, they are a very solid volleyball team who really knows how to step it up come game time!
After breaking for and hour and a half while CVC took on Blackswamp we got warmed up to take on arguably the best team in the OVR. We decided to do a very fast paced free ball game through our rotations. We popped in ten freeballs to them and then they gave us ten free balls. It really is a great way to work on defense when the other team is in system 80% of the time.
Blackswamp came out swinging and I think our girls were a little shell shocked at the pace of the game, the pace of play and the pace of their swings! We simply were not on their level for the first 10-15 mins. However after a few rotations we started to figure out that this high level club thing is totally different…you have to play fast, you have to recover, you have to move on right away. Things really evened out as we caught up to the speed and we had several impressive runs.
Finally we finished with a full game to 25 that was quite competitive. We lost down the stretch but definitely made a game of it. We are really looking forward to seeing our friends from Blackswamp down the road. You always know you’re going to get a great match from a great team!
Overall, I’m thrilled with where we are at so early on. Most of all, I’m thrilled at how fast they are improving. You could see it as the day went on that the girls were really starting to “get it.” We’re not getting ahead of ourselves by any means. We have a LONG ways to go before we can really compete at the top levels but both coach Dave and I agree that with the right work we can get there!
Viva!
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Tags: toledo, Toledo Revolution, Toledo Revolution Volleyball, Toledo Volleyball, TR Volleyball, Update