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Had an NCAA Diversity Speaker on campus last night... She talked a lot about class, race, gender- lots of good talking points that hopefully got the UMM teams thinking.
Working on our Junior Cougar Volleyball Visit Day for Monday... More later!
Coach B
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Crazy Week is over...
Hello-
Whew- what a week! Started with 3 practices early in the week... then I was prepping for the Tinman Triathlon (part of my intramurals job) most of the day and night Wednesday-Friday with it happening Saturday. Then back to the gym at 8:45 am Sunday for 8 hours of volleyball! It was a busy but fun week!!
It was great being back in the gym and coaching the Cougars!! We split into two teams for all of pool play, shuffling the teams back and forth so everybody got a chance to play with everyone else. It wasn't perfectly equal playing time, but everybody certainly played a lot of volleyball! By my unofficial count, both teams finished 10-4 on the day in games, tied for the 2nd best record.
What we did well-- we served very aggressive, especially the first half of the day when we were fresh! We spent a lot of time working on it this spring, just going back there and serving hard and hitting spots, getting teams out of system. We were very good offensively at times! There were points when other teams looked scared when we were on the attack! I thought we communicated well, in that we had a different group on the court almost every other game and I didn't see many balls just land there untouched between two players.
What didn't go so well-- for as much time as we spent on defense this spring, we still need to be better to truly compete at the highest level. We just weren't quite quick enough to get some of the balls, especially to the middle of the court. We also will continue to work on being vocal on the court and communicating from the first point to the last point... Everything can still get a little better but those two things stuck out to me.
Have a great week and I will keep posting, but not quite as often.
Coach B
Whew- what a week! Started with 3 practices early in the week... then I was prepping for the Tinman Triathlon (part of my intramurals job) most of the day and night Wednesday-Friday with it happening Saturday. Then back to the gym at 8:45 am Sunday for 8 hours of volleyball! It was a busy but fun week!!
It was great being back in the gym and coaching the Cougars!! We split into two teams for all of pool play, shuffling the teams back and forth so everybody got a chance to play with everyone else. It wasn't perfectly equal playing time, but everybody certainly played a lot of volleyball! By my unofficial count, both teams finished 10-4 on the day in games, tied for the 2nd best record.
What we did well-- we served very aggressive, especially the first half of the day when we were fresh! We spent a lot of time working on it this spring, just going back there and serving hard and hitting spots, getting teams out of system. We were very good offensively at times! There were points when other teams looked scared when we were on the attack! I thought we communicated well, in that we had a different group on the court almost every other game and I didn't see many balls just land there untouched between two players.
What didn't go so well-- for as much time as we spent on defense this spring, we still need to be better to truly compete at the highest level. We just weren't quite quick enough to get some of the balls, especially to the middle of the court. We also will continue to work on being vocal on the court and communicating from the first point to the last point... Everything can still get a little better but those two things stuck out to me.
Have a great week and I will keep posting, but not quite as often.
Coach B
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Chi Alpha Sigma-Sam Pfannenstein
Hello-
It's been a little while since I last posted... sorry, been a little crazy here! We just finished our last small group practice yesterday, only one more practice this spring and then our spring practices are all done already!
Wanted to let you know that we had one person gain membership to Chi Alpha Sigma, the National Athletics Honor Society. Only student-athletes in their junior or senior year are eligible if they have a grade point average of 3.4 or better... Special Congratulations to Sam Pfannenstein for her fantastic work in the classroom and on the volleyball court! Click here to read more and see all the UMM student-athlete honorees.
We are gearing up for the tourney this Sunday, April 25. Play will start at 10:00 am-- We are planning on having our current Cougar team split into two teams to maximize playing time and get the most of the day. Two alumni teams are coming along with Dakota State, Mayville State, Martin Luther and Bethany Lutheran. We will have 3 courts going most of the day and it should be a blast!!
See you soon!
Coach B
It's been a little while since I last posted... sorry, been a little crazy here! We just finished our last small group practice yesterday, only one more practice this spring and then our spring practices are all done already!
Wanted to let you know that we had one person gain membership to Chi Alpha Sigma, the National Athletics Honor Society. Only student-athletes in their junior or senior year are eligible if they have a grade point average of 3.4 or better... Special Congratulations to Sam Pfannenstein for her fantastic work in the classroom and on the volleyball court! Click here to read more and see all the UMM student-athlete honorees.
We are gearing up for the tourney this Sunday, April 25. Play will start at 10:00 am-- We are planning on having our current Cougar team split into two teams to maximize playing time and get the most of the day. Two alumni teams are coming along with Dakota State, Mayville State, Martin Luther and Bethany Lutheran. We will have 3 courts going most of the day and it should be a blast!!
See you soon!
Coach B
Monday, April 12, 2010
Doubles and Triples...
Hello-
Just a quick update- finished out 19 hours of JO Volleyball Tournaments yesterday... Lots of fun and time in the gym! Had practice today, we played a couple of 2 v 2 games, doubles, (on half a court) and 3 v 3, triples, (on the whole court). They seemed to enjoy that and it was fun watching them all serve, pass, set, hit and dig!! Only 5 practices left before the tourney!
Have a great day!
Go Cougars! (And Twins!! I see they are up 4-1 in their Target Field opener!)
Coach B
PS~ If anyone sees Coach Pennie will you please remind her she's also the ASSISTANT VOLLEYBALL COACH! Thanks-
Just a quick update- finished out 19 hours of JO Volleyball Tournaments yesterday... Lots of fun and time in the gym! Had practice today, we played a couple of 2 v 2 games, doubles, (on half a court) and 3 v 3, triples, (on the whole court). They seemed to enjoy that and it was fun watching them all serve, pass, set, hit and dig!! Only 5 practices left before the tourney!
Have a great day!
Go Cougars! (And Twins!! I see they are up 4-1 in their Target Field opener!)
Coach B
PS~ If anyone sees Coach Pennie will you please remind her she's also the ASSISTANT VOLLEYBALL COACH! Thanks-
Saturday, April 10, 2010
JO Volleyball Tourneys Today...
Hello-
Just sitting here at our 3rd UMM Cougar Challenge JO Volleyball Tourney... Fun Stuff! Also wanted to point out the new pictures on the flickr site- From our first practice. And yes, we did use volleyballs in practice!! Our Sports Information Director Chris Butler was there for the first 25 minutes or so when we were warming up and doing some movement work.
Megan Theis, Jordan Olerud, Allie Humphrey and Brita Humphrey were here early this morning to help set up for hte tourney... Megan and Jordan are the lucky ones that get to hang out with me allllll dayyyyy longgggg!
Enjoy your weekend and see you on the 25th of April!!
Coach B
This is Jordan and Megan reporting, and actually coach happens to be the lucky one today!!
Just sitting here at our 3rd UMM Cougar Challenge JO Volleyball Tourney... Fun Stuff! Also wanted to point out the new pictures on the flickr site- From our first practice. And yes, we did use volleyballs in practice!! Our Sports Information Director Chris Butler was there for the first 25 minutes or so when we were warming up and doing some movement work.
Megan Theis, Jordan Olerud, Allie Humphrey and Brita Humphrey were here early this morning to help set up for hte tourney... Megan and Jordan are the lucky ones that get to hang out with me allllll dayyyyy longgggg!
Enjoy your weekend and see you on the 25th of April!!
Coach B
This is Jordan and Megan reporting, and actually coach happens to be the lucky one today!!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Spring Fever...
Hello-
The weather here has been beautiful! The play in the gym has been pretty good as well... we are back from a short Easter break and had small group practices Tuesday and team practice yesterday and tonight. We have been focusing on serving aggressive and defensive work for this week. I just sent out a rough schedule to the teams for our Sunday, April 25th tourney-- It is looking like we will have Dakota State and Mayville State (both NAIA schools) and Bethany Lutheran and Martin Luther here. We will be splitting our current UMM team into 2 teams to maximize our playing time and opportunities this spring and we should have 2 alumni teams as well (a Young Team and an Old team... but they are sensitive to that so we have to call them the "Veteran Team!"). If you are counting at home that's 8 teams!! Should be lots and lots of volleyball and fun!
Otherwise, spending a lot of time working on the Tinman Triathlon, an event I am in charge of as part of my Intramural Coordinator position... that is Saturday, April 24th- good planning huh!? We will have close to 100 participants and almost that many volunteers to help with the swim, bike and run! I am also excited because we have a full bus (50 students!) going down to the Twins game on Tuesday, May 4th to watch them play the Tigers. Part of my IM job is to help sponsor a bus trip each year (last year we went to a MN Wild hockey game). Sometimes I love my Job!!
Have a great week!
Coach B
The weather here has been beautiful! The play in the gym has been pretty good as well... we are back from a short Easter break and had small group practices Tuesday and team practice yesterday and tonight. We have been focusing on serving aggressive and defensive work for this week. I just sent out a rough schedule to the teams for our Sunday, April 25th tourney-- It is looking like we will have Dakota State and Mayville State (both NAIA schools) and Bethany Lutheran and Martin Luther here. We will be splitting our current UMM team into 2 teams to maximize our playing time and opportunities this spring and we should have 2 alumni teams as well (a Young Team and an Old team... but they are sensitive to that so we have to call them the "Veteran Team!"). If you are counting at home that's 8 teams!! Should be lots and lots of volleyball and fun!
Otherwise, spending a lot of time working on the Tinman Triathlon, an event I am in charge of as part of my Intramural Coordinator position... that is Saturday, April 24th- good planning huh!? We will have close to 100 participants and almost that many volunteers to help with the swim, bike and run! I am also excited because we have a full bus (50 students!) going down to the Twins game on Tuesday, May 4th to watch them play the Tigers. Part of my IM job is to help sponsor a bus trip each year (last year we went to a MN Wild hockey game). Sometimes I love my Job!!
Have a great week!
Coach B
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