Saturday, March 23, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
President's Day Tournament 16'S Club Division
Team One went 6-2 for 6th place out of 68 teams - great job!
Monday, January 28, 2013
Team One Zen Off to a Great Start
Team One 16's Zen
The teams are loving the new facility and the amazing coaching staff.
We started strong in the first round of seeding, rising from seeded in the 80's to # 43 out of 150 teams, losing only one match to the number 4 seed. The girls are playing very well together as a team and are all very talented players.
Our first tournament, Fusion Rockford Point Series, Team One finishes first place out of 16, losing only one match in 3 sets to Madison Elite, who we defeated soundly in 2 sets in our Gold Bracket rematch.
A few cringes as the team accepted their hard won prize after 12 hours of playing:
T-shirts advertising one of our competitors and Emily's former club!
It was a long day, but a very good day. The girls played some great volleyball.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
You've come a long way, baby
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| 2013 Team One 16 Zen # 28 |
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| 2009 Thompson Middle School # 43 |
2010 TMS 8th Grade team # 33
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| 2010 Kane County Jrs Navy Travel Coach Jo #2 |
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| 2011 Kane County Jrs Navy Travel with Coach Katrina # 27 |
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| Growth Spurt! |
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| 2011 KC Jr's Banquet |
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| Half a season off to put screws in that toe bone - ouch! |
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| 2011 Freshman year Sophmore team #4 |
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| 2011 Freshman year JV team #8 |
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| 2012 Fusion South Red 15's travel # 7 |
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| 2012 |
2012 Team One Sand
2012 Team One Sand
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| 2012 Sophomore year Varsity team #14 |
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| 2012 Sophomore year Varsity team # 14 |
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| SCN Varsity Regional Champs! |
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| 2013 Team One 16 Zen # 28 |
Can't wait to see what comes next!
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
North Stars defeat Batavia
St. Charles North’s blockers
What they did: The North Stars keep proving they’re for real this season, and their blocking game against Batavia on Tuesday showed another solid side of their game. Alex Stone and Emily Carroll had four and a half blocks each, while Taylor Krage added three and a half.
St. Charles North nips Batavia
By Kevin McGavin Daily Herald
The opening night of the girls volleyball season was a harbinger of the what is expected to be a common theme in the Upstate Eight River Division.
“A dogfight,” acting St. Charles North coach Doug Foster said after the North Stars held off a surging Batavia squad by identical scores of 25-23 and 25-23 Tuesday evening in St. Charles.
Renee Rhoades’ serve fell innocuously to the floor, only inches from the back line, as the North Stars earned the final point after squandering an 11-point second-game lead against Batavia in the schools’ league opener.
“(The back-row players) thought (the serve) was going long,” Batavia coach Lori Trippi-Payne said. “You have to play that ball.” St. Charles North (9-2, 1-0) appeared to be in command in the second game after Alex Busch, capitalizing on several Batavia mistakes, had an 8-point service run — highlighted by a pair of aces — to give the North Stars the first of four double-digit leads in the nightcap.
Batavia captain Heather Meyer, who led both teams with 8 kills, had three of her winners in a 5-point sequence to launch the Bulldogs’ comeback. Slowly but inexorably, Batavia (9-6, 0-1) clawed its way back into the second game. Kristin Koncelik had a kill to cap a 12-4 Batavia run that sliced the North Stars’ cushion to 21-18. Batavia senior Anysa Ocon had back-to-back points — a kill and block, respectively — to bring Batavia within two.
Taylor Krage maintained the North Stars’ 2-point spread at 23-21, only to have Batavia score consecutive points to knot the game for the first time since it was 1-1. But St. Charles North freshman Claire Anderson brought her team to match point with a kill, and Rhoades’ service from well beyond the North Stars’ end line perfectly split two defenders for the clinching point.
“It was kind of a little bit of a letdown,” Krage said of North allowing Batavia back into the second game. “I felt like both teams played a great match.”
Batavia appeared dead in the water after its sluggish second-game start. “We underestimated them at the start of the match,” Ocon said. “They served us really tough the whole match. I think we played great defense (to accelerate the second-game comeback).” Briahna Havis’ serving prowess powered Batavia to an early 5-2 lead in the opening game, but St. Charles North made short order of the Bulldogs’ largest lead of the night.
With its athletic front line controlling the tempo at the net and setter Emily Belz providing the necessary floor leadership, St. Charles North had Rhoades’ opening ace of the match culminate an 11-3 run that resulted in a 13-8 lead.
“You have to give St. Charles North credit,” Trippi-Payne said. “They were blocking everything.”
St. Charles North was able to maintain first-game cushion, only to see Batavia use a venomous strike back with the North Stars on the cusp of victory.
Trailing 24-20, Ocon staved off one game point for Batavia; a St. Charles North hitting error and violation brought the Bulldogs within one of the equivalent of volleyball overtime. But Belz had other ideas; the North Stars’ senior leader deftly landed a two-hand short volley from the front row into an empty space in the Bulldogs’ defense to seal the first-game win. “It was a really intense point,” Belz said. “I didn’t want them to have all the momentum going into the second game. Our team chemistry really kicked in.”
“I thought (Belz) played a great match,” Trippi-Payne said.
Belz had 16 assists to lead St. Charles North, while Batavia setter Audrey Faulhaber had a match-high 19 assists to augment 6 digs and 2 blocks.
“A bunch of heart on that team,” Foster said of Batavia.
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