Melrose played its first Freedom Division game and emerged a straight sets winner - 25-8, 25-11, 25-7. The victory puts Melrose at 4-0 early in the season.
A coach told UCONN's Geno Auriemma, winner of eleven National Championships, "you've never won a National Championship without great players." Auriemma answered, "Tell me the coaches' names who won Championships with bad players."
Senior Abby Hudson sat with a lower body injury, but Melrose is blessed with a stable of accomplished hitters, Elena Soukos, Gia Vlajkovic, and Ava Burns outside and Chloe Gentile and Sadie Jaggers in the middle. And junior Anna Shoemaker shows another attacker with potential. They attack relentlessly.
Here's a highlight with a signature smash by Elena from the outside.
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