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My Junior Olympics’ Experience
Jul 21st
By: Sarah Steffan
Ponte Vedra High School
Reaching the Junior Olympics in volleyball is the ultimate goal of the extensive, demanding season. You can only reach this tournament if you have either won a national qualifier or your regional qualifier. In the case of JJVA 17’s, we won a national qualifier! This means that we placed 1st out of 114 teams from all over, including a team from Hawaii. After this exciting win in early April, it was back to practice, five days a week typically lasting at least two hours. Although everyone was pumped about this huge win it meant three more months of practice. Somehow we managed to make it through and the day finally came to head down to Miami, the location of the national tournament this year.
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Bill Tierney- Off to the Wild West
Jun 16th
Pretend for a second that you have been coaching for 22 years, have won 14 Ivy league championships, 6 National championships and produced countless All-Americans. What are you thinking about? Retirement…your incoming stacked recruiting class, the beach??? Not Bill Tierney. He decided to move across the country and leave the comforts of Princeton University to coach at Denver University. That’s quite a big move for such an established college coach. Think of it as Mike Krzyzewski leaving Duke to coach at Seattle University or Joe Paterno leaving Penn State to coach at UNLV. Tierney is a coaching legend in the lacrosse community and has built a powerhouse program from scratch. How can he leave? Listen to the Podcast below to find out. It makes complete sense for him and we wish him the best of luck.