It’s been a little while since I’ve done any session notes so I figured it’s about time! Did you miss us? 
This week our focus has clearly shifted to system work over skill and drill work. While we are still doing some drill work during the “competition” period, it’s really only 20-30 mins of our practice with the remainder of the time being game type work. Right now we are focusing on transition from defense to offense. This single team ability is by far the biggest difference between developmental volleyball and “real” volleyball. Learning to anticipate, read, and then perform the physical task of getting ready to attack must be done faster and faster and faster as you get older and play at higher levels. Early in the week we really struggled to catch on to just how focused and intense you must be to play at the speed needed to compete. However, I really think we had a breakthrough tonight. We played very hard, talked a lot more (still need more), and really played a lot faster. How fast we grasp these concepts will go a very long ways in determining our result this weekend.
Speaking of this weekend; A lot is being made about the fact that due to certain circumstances, we are the last seed in the tournament. This put us as the #4 seed in the same pool at TVC. Already there is chatter on the chat boards about our match up with them being SUA vs. NDA and Buck vs. Mattera. So far it has almost all been good natured and I want to say here and now that I hope it remains that way. TVC has 2 girls coming to NDA so the NDA vs SUA thing is just plain wrong. As for Buck vs. Mattera, we’ve been playing against each other for 4 years now. It certainly isn’t about us. I don’t think either of us would still be alive if we lived vicariously through the athletic performance of teen-aged girls! Would you believe that we are actually friends? We went out to dinner at Jed’s a few weeks back. We actually enjoy each other’s company!!! Sorry to ruin your universe if you really bought into the Buck and Mattera are mortal enemies thing TVC is the clear favorite in the pool, they have some great kids that I was lucky enough to coach last year and they have been playing great competition all year. We hope to hold our own, have some fun, and get better by playing good competition. I really have no idea what to expect. We just don’t have the game experience that I’d like to have by this point, but I do believe that we’ll play hard and prove that we really shouldn’t be a #4
Viva!
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Tags: Practice, Practices, Session Notes, Session Updates, Sessions, toledo, Toledo Revolution, Toledo Revolution Volleyball, Toledo Volleyball, TR Volleyball, Update