Texas Tech University Athletics
Solid Spring Workouts Continue
April 11, 2010 | Women's Volleyball
April 11, 2010
LUBBOCK, Texas - The players who will return for the 2010 version of the Tech volleyball squad are in the middle of their off-season practice schedule and are making important strides for the program.
With four contests at home on Saturday, including scrimmages with Midland Collage and Lubbock Christian University, the team is beginning to gel and to work the system that head coach Trish Knight has been implementing since she arrived last year.
"They are really starting to get it, what I've been talking about since I got here," Knight said. "The key to our success has to start with the passing game. It sets up everything. Our front line play was pretty solid throughout the season -- oh, it can get better, but it was good enough to keep us in many matches -- but it's the passing game that really allows you to transition and to get into the kind of attach game that we have to have to compete in the Big 12," she continued.
"Our kids are really beginning to understand that, to trust each other and to trust us even when it might be difficult to shift of the floor in unfamiliar set ups. Yesterday we were able to take advantage of that good passing and solid overall defense and do a lot of what we wanted on offense."
The team, which is augmented by former setter Caroline Witte during the off-season, will be expecting some new faces to join them in the fall. Currently, the squad is comprised of returning players from last year's team and a few new athletes who are engaged in a type of "tryout" phase (similar to spring training in football parlance). New players don't report until August when the season begins.
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Note: A few volleyball players have earned important academic or civic honors, of late, and a release with detailed information will be forthcoming. Please stay tuned to this site for information regarding some impressive achievements by these young ladies!
