UMBC Tournament Wrap-up

Today was my team’s (GW volleyball) last tournament of our spring season which was held at UMBC (University of Maryland-Baltimore County). Since Baltimore is about an hour away, it was not a long drive by any means, which was good, since we got to sleep in a little longer and then we were able to return to campus that much faster. Also, this morning on the way to their campus, my team stopped at Panera Bread for breakfast, which is an absolute favorite of mine and another one of my teammates whose is also from Wisconsin. I ordered a blueberry bagel toasted and with cream cheese and it was delicious—so good.

Then we played our first match of the day at 10am against Loyola University Maryland (who we have played before) and beat them in 2 games. Our next match, at 12pm, was against the Naval Academy, who we have also played multiple times this spring season (most teams in the area tend to circulate around the same tournaments in the area during the spring season). This was by far our best match of the day and we beat Navy quite easily in 2 games (25-9 and 25-11—for some reason these are the only game scores I can remember from today, maybe because they are so good). Since we won our pool play, at 2pm we had to play the #1 team from the other pool bracket, which was Delaware. On a side note, our assistant coach from the last 2 years is now one of the assistant coaches at Delaware as of last week, so it was definitely a weird experience to face him across the net since he was our coach until a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, we lost against Delaware—probably since Doug knew every single one of our tricks! Haha But seriously, we could have played a lot better and there is always room for improvement so we are using the loss as a learning experience. We left UMBC around 3:15pm and arrived back on campus about an hour later.

Even though our tournaments are over for spring, we still have weight room/conditioning from 7-8am and now mini practices from 8-9am every weekday morning for the remaining 2 weeks of classes. Then, we get our summer workout packets to do at home or wherever we are spending our summers!

Go Colonials!

-Christie