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ASICS Junior National Volleyball Championship 2010 Part 2

 JNVC 2nd PlaceI washed away my disappointment form this mornings race and headed down to Navy Pier for the final day of the tournament. After yesterdays stellar performance, Jenna’s team ended up in the gold pool in the top 5 teams of her age group, so even if they loose the first match and must go home, the worst they can do is 5th for the tournament. Not too bad.

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The first match was against Squadron a team from DeKalb, IL. Our girls played very well and took the first match in 3 games. The second match was against Ultimate a team from Frankfort, IL which we won in two straight games.

The final game of the night for the championship was against Rolling Thunder from Lake Zurich, IL. The girls hung in there but ended up losing the match in two close games. Overall they took 2nd in their age group and brought home some nice hardware for their efforts.

The team has two weeks of practice and no games to get ready for Volleyfest in Phoenix, which will be their last tournament of the season. Congratulations girls and good luck in Phoenix.

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ASICS Junior National Volleyball Championship 2010

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This weekend Navy Pier in Chicago is hosting the ASICS Junior National Volleyball Championship, June 11 – June 13. My daughter plays for Illinois Performance Volleyball and they are competing in the U17 (under 17 years old) division at the tournament.  Unfortunately, my trip to Columbus this week will caused me to miss the first day of the contest where they won two of their three matches, a good start to the weekend.

Today, Saturday was even better with IPV taking all three matches for the day with an overall record of 6-2 for game play (they lost one game in two of the matches to force a game three, which they won both times). This was the first time I can remember that they won all three matches in a single day, so the girls are pumped up and we hope that enthusiasm will help them in their games tomorrow.

Sunday will be single elimination so if you lose you go home. They are scheduled to play at 2PM, but must ref first, so we need to be at the Pier my 12:30 for team instructions. I have my half marathon tomorrow, the 13.1 Chicago, so that should give me plenty of time to run, get home, get cleaned up and get down for the matches.

Time to get some sleep for the race tomorrow.