Final volleyball tournament

Since the beginning of this new year, 

Ashlyn, Abby, and Aryn have been preparing for

one last volleyball tournament of this school year!

It is always their favorite tournament and they have looked

forward to it with great anticipation.

This would have been Ashlyn's last volleyball event of

her high school career, but as fate would have it

the very night before they would get up early to leave

she contracted some sort of stomach virus and was vomiting.

This is never good even without a chronic health condition,

but as a Type 1 Diabetic this meant higher blood sugars and ketones

that had to be treated.

So Ashlyn ended up staying home.  Bummer!!

But even though this team was down one of their strongest players,

they played with heart and endurance all day and ended

up taking second place in the entire tournament!!
Our girls lost their first game, won the next two,

and played for first place in the final at 10:30 pm!!
Our "varsity" team consists of two 4th graders and a newer player,

two 13-year olds, and two high-schoolers.
It was definitely a "David vs. Goliath" scenario.
But our girls played tirelessly and pulled through to the finals,

and took home second place out of 4 varsity teams!!

We are so proud of our girls and their sportsmanship, enthusiasm,

and hard work!!!
Great job, Lady Minutemen!!!