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IU East Volleyball Has Came to an End…

Nov 23, 2009 General
Posted by madison

This past Saturday IU East volleyball team traveled to Taylor University for first round NAIA National match. We arrived on campus in time for a banquet for the two teams as a honor of playing in this game. The banquet started with everyone praying, and we began to eat. Then handing out the Champions of Character Award to one player from each team. I received this award representing IU East. I was so surprised, but honored! Finally, the banquet ended with introduction of the coaches and players. And a gift exchange (which is when both teams bring a shirt representing their school and trade with the opposing team). We got Taylor Volleyball shirts. We left the banquet to go get ready for game time! We got ready and started focusing on winning. We had regular warm-ups, then it was time to play! We started out playing right with them, and making them earn every point. But they had enough to get over that hump, and we got stuck. We lost the first game close. The second started good, but ended bad. We lost the second game. We were going into the third–all or nothing! We started the game high and intensed, but Taylor had more. We lost the final game, and lost 3-0. It was depressing and upsetting; But it happens! We now know what to expect going into a high level game. We ended with 30-12, a season conference title 8-0, a post season conference tourney title, and a trip to nationals…what more can we ask for!? We are ready for a trip to second round now next year!