Shane Life

First volleyball tournament since the ankle incident. Today in Ottawa, we played in a 5-team AA tournament and we ended up second. Again.

We played awful this morning. Awful. We just were not clicking at all and it sucked. We just couldn’t do anything right.

Then, we kind of turned a brief corner and we participated in the longest rally I can remember in my 10+ year volleyball career. We won one and lost won, finally getting ourselves into the win column, needing to win our final two games to make it into the playoffs. We were down 23-24, and managed to come back and win that game and another game to JUST make it in.

Then, in the semis, I got one of the nastiest floor burns on my left leg. It’s probably 4 inches long and 2.5 inches wide and it still is stinging me even today. Well, we won our semifinal match in 3 games and then went to 3 games in the finals against the team that we had needed to beat to get into the tournament. While they ended up beating us, I guess you could say that it was a “moral victory” considering how terribly we played the rest of the day.

Overall, it was a pretty good tournament.