Why hello Crusader fans! The end is quickly approaching – hopefully not too quick though! It seems like just yesterday we were on a flight to Florida, and now we are preparing for the conclusion of our regular season. Boy how time flies when you’re having fun, and these last couple days have sure been a blast! This past weekend we dominated at home over UIC and Loyola in what were two very emotional matches for our team. Our three seniors, Angie Porche, Haley Wise, and Kim Bukowski played amazingly in their last home matches, and will be greatly missed next year. We couldn’t be more proud of them and all they have given to this team – it certainly is no easy task to put up with KTB for two years!

On November 10th Valpo Volleyball will honor our professors before the match against Chicago State. Join us as we give a special thanks to them for all of their help and support throughout our hectic, crazy seasons, and catch the seniors as they play their FINAL home match on the Crusader court.

Following Chicago State, we travel to Milwaukee and Green Bay (and the Bukowski residence) to play our last two regular season matches before we enter the Horizon League Championships the following week.

Thanks to all of our parents and supporters who made such wonderful food for senior night and parent night, and all throughout the season on our long bus trips. Special thanks to the Newton, Bukowski, and Balsis families for hosting us at their houses (no easy task – KTB eats enough for 5 people) and feeding us such scrumptious delights! We wouldn’t make it this far without the love, support, and food from our fans

Talk to you soon loyal followers!

KTL

Hello Valpo Volleyball followers! Please take note of the Pat Benatar reference in the title of this blog entry, that no was accident. We at Valpo Volleyball pride ourselves in knowing how to make the season fun, and will go to great lengths to keep things interesting. The brilliant mind of our coach Carin Avery decided it would be a tubular idea for us all to dress up in 80′s garb for practice last week in the spirit of Halloween, and boy was she right. Our themed practice went so well that we will now be dressing in leggings, over-sized sweatshirts, and large mismatched earrings for the remainder of our games! Juust kidding, athletic director.

Anyway, November is already here and we are quickly approaching tournament time! Our current overall record is 18-8, and we are looking forward to finishing up this year with another 20+ win season for our program. I last left you before we took on two of the three Ohio teams in our league, which turned out to be a bittersweet weekend for us. Unfortunately we saw our eight match winning streak come to an end when we faced top-ranked Cleveland State, as our team fell 3-1. However, we didn’t let this loss affect our spirits and took down Wright State the very next day. The sets were close, but we won in a 3-0 sweep.

Last week we journeyed to Butler to take on the Bulldogs at their home court, but we were unable to find our rhythm and fell 3-1. We return to our home court this weekend to take on the Chicago schools, UIC and Loyola, for a couple of very important league matches. We then take on Chicago State next week for our senior night, and are excited finish off the regular reason at home with a big win for the old ladies on our team.

I’d also like to thank Anna for the comment she left on here, just in case she follows this regularly. Thank you so much for coming out to support Valpo Volleyball, it really means a lot to us! You are too sweet!

Until next time, Crusader fans. GOOOO VALPO!!!!!

KTB