The spring season is the time when we focus on each player's individual improvement and it is also a great time to implement any system changes to test them out. We are making a big change to our serve-receive system for next fall and the spring season tournaments will provide us with numerous quality opportunities to get comfortable with the changes and work out the kinks.
Quotes about serve-receive (10 Quotes)
At this point, we're really working on two things. One is our attacking -- we've got good hitters, but we're working to try to get them more consistent. And the other is serve-receive -- we've made a couple of adjustments to our serve-receive and it's improving, but it's obviously not been tested in game situations.
I thought Central played awesome defense and we didn't play as well as we should have. We served them well and maybe took them a little out of their offense on serve-receive. Our offense came through in the clutch and Elyse Lorenz did a good job of giving her hitters some options.
We really saw some things we need to work on. Our serve-receive was terrible tonight. We just managed to get away with it. Any other night we play like this we're probably going to get beat.
I'm very satisfied with the team's performance at our first spring tournament. We improved throughout the day and implemented our new serve-receive system very well. The team played with composure and consistency all day while competing against a wide variety of teams that each had different styles and strengths. The team adapted very well to this challenge, and the weekend proved that not only have our physical abilities improved, but so have our mental ones. Players were multi-tasking the strategic part of the game while also easily executing physical skill - a true sign of a veteran team.
We weren't in trouble at all the whole match. We only had one serve-receive error and not many hitting errors. We didn't struggle anywhere.
As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.
We cut down on errors, especially in serve-receive. We played more solidly than we have in the past. I was pleased to open league with a victory.
Northwest Christian served really aggressively and we struggled with our serve-receive game. After the first game, we did better, got more consistent with our serve and we were able to pass in our serve-receive game. That was our focus that got us the win.
This was a big win because we had two talented, evenly matched teams that mirror each other in terms of style of play. The difference tonight was our serve-receive passing. We didn't block a lot of balls, but we made adjustments that worked out.