ORLANDO, Florida – All 17s, 15s, and 14s continued battling in pool play on the AAU Boys Junior Nationwide Volleyball Championships on Friday.
Saturday, the third day of the match, is all the time referred to as motion day. By Saturday evening the elimination and championship brackets will likely be set.
The most effective of Friday
— 17s open undefeated groups: Academy, Bay to Bay, Coast, MB Surf, MKE Sting, Mountain View, Serve and Spike and Workforce Rockstar.
— Santa Monica Boys Membership’s 17s Premier setter Matt Fisher is our 17s participant of the day. Fisher, a 6-foot – 7 setter from Adolfo Camarillo Excessive Faculty, has led his workforce to a 6-0 begin.
— 15s open undefeated groups: Aspire, Balboa Bay, Bay to Bay, C2 Assault, HPSTL, MB Surf, Pinnacle and Workforce Rockstar.
— 14s open undefeated groups: Balboa Bay, Borinquen Coqui, Coast, GVA, HPSTL, MB Surf and Workforce Rockstar.
— Whip, snap, and pop! The whip that 11-year-old tremendous fan Juan Rivera was snapping round received his Torri followers from Puerto Rico jacked up. Torri 15s was down 23-19 towards Coast within the second set they usually got here again in win 28-26, 26-24. Throughout two Coast timeouts, Rivera took stage and used his whip to get the Torri followers going.
— C2 Assault and coach Camren Thomas stay undefeated within the 15s Open Division.
“Our workforce was profitable at the moment due to our serve obtain, ball management, communication, and our aggressive attacking,” stated Jakai Houston.
— Workforce Momentum within the 15s Elite division is 6-0. Exterior hitter Kevin Rauscher has been averaging six kills per set and center blocker Max Winter is averaging two aces.
“They’ve been firing on all cylinders. Profiting from free ball alternatives and changing throughout troublesome transition moments,” membership director Jacob Reese stated.
— SC Legends 14-Elite has had one thing to show after contemplating it was seeded too low. They entered Saturday morning as the general No. 3 within the 14s Open behind setter Andrew Ma and outdoors Maki Estrella.
— Dawson Langley and his Exel 14s Open workforce jumped on a airplane after their USA Volleyball nationwide championship third-place end to come back right here. Langley is hitting .235%, passing at 2.1, and had 32 digs within the first two days.
“After ending third at USAV Nationals my workforce got here to this match to compete,” Langley stated. “Not each recreation has gone our manner. Our final match of the season has undoubtedly been probably the greatest with how the workforce is enjoying and the experiences we get to have all due to our superb coaches.”
— In 2023 the Maui fires had a big impact on the Aloha Volleyball Affiliation Membership.
Administrators Scottie Zucco and Rachel Pond instantly went to work after the fireplace to ensure their groups may observe. They managed to ship two groups to the AAU Junior Nationwide Championships, in 14s and 16s.
“The whole island banded collectively to assist each other to beat the tragedy,” Pond stated. “One father or mother began a Go Fund Me, and one other began writing grants to assist get our membership to nationals. It was our hope and mission that each one our athletes received to take part on this match. Our membership coated any obligatory dues.”
They stated it
“The AVCA recruiting seminar was informative to me as a result of it gave me a greater understanding on how an athlete ought to be accountable for his personal volleyball journey. Discovering a faculty that may be a good match is vital and I realized concerning the work that goes into recruiting, by way of sending emails and updating coaches with movie.”
— Nick Safray, Elite 17s
“I’m impressed with the AAU Junior Nationwide Championship occasion. It’s thrilling to see states and areas from North Carolina, Texas, Maryland, Minnesota, and lots of extra area aggressive groups. The expertise continues to develop for our sport.”
— Richard Gary, Vassar School coach
– “The AVCA recruiting panel was an important alternative for me to share information that I want I might have been pertinent to after I was enjoying membership. It’s phenomenal to see the engagement by each the athlete and their households with us as a panel.”
— Jorge Collazo, UC San Diego assistant coach
VolleyballMag contributor Kevin Pratte is the boys varsity coach at The Bishop’s Faculty in La Jolla, California and Grant elementary bodily training instructor. Pratte, who lives in San Diego, performed on the College of Pacific. He was a graduate assistant at Nebraska, an assistant at Pacific, and has coached on the junior school stage. He is also a school recruiting coordinator, Rotary member, president of the www.kevinprattefoundation.com, host of the KP HERE Podcast and editor of the boys volleyball web site middlehitter.com.