Kym McKay Quotations

The players and coaches are looking forward to this weekend's competition. Each player has been working hard this spring during individual workouts and has shown improvement. Team practices started this past Monday, and it was exciting to get all of the players together and practice in a team setting.

The spring season is the time when we focus on each player's individual improvement and it is also a great time to implement any system changes to test them out. We are making a big change to our serve-receive system for next fall and the spring season tournaments will provide us with numerous quality opportunities to get comfortable with the changes and work out the kinks.

As a team, our defense continued to shine and was even more exciting than it was last fall. Our new serve-receive system went very well and we are looking for it to continue to improve. We had a handful of moments that we looked extremely impressive and were firing on all cylinders. It was very exciting.

I'm very satisfied with the team's performance at our first spring tournament. We improved throughout the day and implemented our new serve-receive system very well. The team played with composure and consistency all day while competing against a wide variety of teams that each had different styles and strengths. The team adapted very well to this challenge, and the weekend proved that not only have our physical abilities improved, but so have our mental ones. Players were multi-tasking the strategic part of the game while also easily executing physical skill - a true sign of a veteran team.

The coaching staff is looking to the players who stood out last season to continue this trend and stand out even more - to take their games to another level. We hope to see the players who do not typically get the limelight to enhance their team contributions and roles.