Teen's vs. Parent's Volleyball Tournament

This past Friday we had a volleyball tournament at church.For ten weeks we have trained and been coached for this,to play against the parents.We had an awesome Coach (who made us do some awful drills!= D),we met every Monday night,we were there working on our volleyball skills from 6PM-8:30PM.There was 12 of us,and we all worked our hardest.Well time for the tournament came we were playing best out of seven games,meaning winner would have to win 4 games or more.We started the games...the adults won the first 2 games,and then we won the next 2,and the the adults won one,and then we won one,and then we won the last one;making it adults-3,teens-4!We won!Go Strikers!We were pretty excited about it,but there's more of the story to hear,there was some motivation behind this...first our Coach told us that if we didn't win the third game (since the adults beat us in the first 2 games) that we would have to run 20 suicides,I don't know about you,but I strongly dislike doing suicides,our next motivation was that if we won the game Coach would make 11(enough for each of us,because the twelfth player couldn't make the game) whipped cream pies,one for each of us to smash in his face,and our last motivation our team captain said that if we won we could pour Gatorade all over him....another reason for the victory was the pep talks from our team captain and coach.Well the first thing we did after the win was took a minute and thanked the Lord and then some of the guys carried Coach around,then we all high-fived and  congratulated each other.Then our team captain gave us his water bottle full of grape Powerade,and true to his word,let us dump it all over him...me and another girl did it.Well I was standing there talking to someone and next thing I know my team captain came at me with cold water and dumped it all over my back....and there another person who was squirting me with water and 2 other girls (one of which was my loving sister!= D) put ice down my back...it was a very eventful night,I'm just glad I didn't get red Gatorade dumped on me like some of the other team members did...afterwards we hit the v-ball around some,and talked,and just had some great fellowship!= D
[sorry there was no pictures...= (]

Volleyball

This past Saturday the teens (and the  parents,as our cheerers!) from my church went to the annual Basketball/Volleyball tournament.It was a great day we had two volleyball teams and one basketball team.When we weren't playing we were cheering(or making other random noises!= )),by the end of the day I don't think any of us had a voice left!The guys placed Second in basketball.My team (team # 2) went the whole way to the second but last game and  team # 1 went undefeated all day.It came time for the championship round where they played another undefeated team,it was a close game but after a time-out and a pep talk by there great coach they got there act together becoming the champions.The minute they won my team took off,down the stairs,off the stage.We got down there and we were all congratulating them giving them high-fives.It was a great day and a great win!

team # 1

team #2

team #2

the winning team #1 (sorry this is the best picture I have!)