All Gas, No Brakes - Appreciate the Competitive Character of These Girls

Seek continual ascension. Apply sports psychology to that end. 

Visualization promotes positive psychology. Create a mental highlight reel. 

Understand your identity as a team and as a player. "This is who we are." And know your game, "This is how we play."

"Pound the rock." If it takes a hundred hits to break the rock, keep hitting.

Athletic performance relates to skill, sport specific IQ, athleticism, and mental toughness. Specifically, one player on MVB has a learned ability to 'read' the defensive geometry and "hit 'em where they ain't."

Highlights:

Elise gets a "C" slide attack and Westwood digs it out but at a disadvantage. 

Adriana Santoriello filled her toolbox to include pipe attacks. 

There's a basketball saying, "Great offense is multiple actions" and "great defense is multiple efforts." Sabrina McArt's athleticism getting "hands on" the block keeps the play alive and Alisa Dautovic gets a rare "three touch" kill. 

Amelie Johnson brings length and athleticism to the right side, translating to a block-kill.

 

More 'multiple efforts' as Anna Burns digs out a rocket and Sabrina blocks at the net until an unforced error happens. 

Amelie reveals parts of her toolbox with a great save at the net followed by a "rainbow kill." Old-time announcer Keith Jackson would say, "And she's only a sophomore." 

You never know when a "Got to have it" point arises. Gen Overlan digs a tough serve, Dani DiGiorgio adjusts to a ball from the heavens, and Elise keeps the ball alive. Then an unforced error issues the point. 

Director Mira Nair says, "You need the soul of a poet and the hide of an elephant." Elise finds a soft spot in a critical moment. 

Appreciate the athleticism, power and grace of these young ladies. Elise crafts another point with a block. 

Sadie Smith does Sadie Smith. A ball ricochets off the rafters and she makes an incredible adjustment. Watch the corner flag official who does not hesitate and calls the ball in.

 

Sadie Smith excavates the point of the season. She digs a deflected ball in an otherworldly Edelman Super Bowl moment. 

Another magnificent point with Dani digging deep and Melrose outlasting Westwood. Play "harder for longer."