Another weekend, another trophy! The Senior team was on the Island (at Brentwood) for their ISA tournament and was able to repeat as ISA Champs for the 2nd year in a row on Saturday! While not at their best, the girls were up to the challenge of beating Crofton, WPGA, Southridge, SMU, and Brentwood (once in pool play and once in the finals on their home court).
So far this season the girls have placed 4th at UBC, 2nd at VIU, 1st in a Junior Boys Tournament, 1st at Westerns, and 1st at ISAs. Not a bad season so far!
They are now looking forward to a week of practice before playing next Monday (Nov 3rd) against St. Pats at home for the start of our league playoffs. Times will be announced next week but it would be great if we could get a strong showing as it is an important match. On Wednesday, we will most likely face off for the AA top berth in our league, and on Thursday we will play for our league championship (something we won last year for the first time!).
Thank you again for all the support and please congratulate the girls when you see them.
Chris Ruse
Coach
Grade 8 Volleyball
Congratulations are also in order for our Grade 8Volleyball team. They placed 2nd (Silver) at the ISA Volleyball Championships this weekend.
Congratulations to the Sr. Volleyball Team for winning their 2nd straight Spartan cup at the Western Canadian Independent Schools Volleyball Championship (WCISVC) this Saturday. The tournament was held in Wilcox, Saskatchewan from October 15-18.
The girls played very good volleyball and went through the round robin matches undefeated. On Saturday morning the team had two starters (Michelle and Alex) writing the PSATs, so we went into our semi-finals with Blair and Erin, our two Grade 10s, starting. They played very well, leading to a victory over Crofton.
For the final, the team played against Rundle College. Rundle played extremely well defensively and executed their game plan to perfection. We won the first set relatively easily but then lost a tight second to set up a third winner-takes-all set.
We started the game off down 3-0 in a game to 15 and switched sides down 8-4! We struggled to find our groove and found ourselves down 12-9. The girls never panicked and took the time to re-centre themselves and focus on their goal. They went back and Michelle served us back to 12-12 before losing a point to make it 13-12 for Rundle with one of their top servers on the line. She served well but we managed to get a key kill from Kaleigh. Amelia then went back and served two outstanding serves to get the team a 15-13 win!
Dayna was recognized as the top blocker in the tournament, Siobhan was an honourable mention in the same category, and Kaleigh and Siobhan were in the running for top hitters. Kaleigh was named our team and tournament MVP – a well deserved award.
Overall, this was one of the strongest tournaments in years and the girls worked very hard to bring back the trophy. It was a team effort, with everyone on the team contributing at different times throughout the week.
Chris Ruse
Coach
Jr. Volleyball Wins ISA Championship
Jr. Volleyball at the ISAs
Congrats to our Jr Volleyball Team who just defeated Southridge to take home the ISA Jr Championship! The tournament was held Friday and Saturday at Shawnigan Lake (Oct 17 & 18). Congrats to all the girls and their coaches and thank you for your continued support. You can see our Jr’s this Thursday (Oct 23) as they host games here at YHS.
More Tigers Results…
Our Swim Team placed 2nd at the ISA’s on Thursday, the Gr. 8 Volleyball team placed 2nd at the Seaquam Tournament in North Delta on Saturday, and the Field Hockey Team placed 3rd at the SMUS Field Hockey Tournament in Victoria (Fri-Sun).
This past weekend has been as busy as it could be for Tigers Athletics. Each of our teams enjoyed successes and had very valuable experiences that would not be possible without our coaches and chaperones. Thank you.
