First Timer

Nicole has been gently suggesting that I spend some time contributing to our blog. I guess using my likeness on the blog in name and in pictures doesn't suffice. Therefore, I will tackle the most noteworthy event in our lives recently: We're pregnant with our second child! Just kidding. At least to my knowledge we're not. Okay, so in all seriousness we have done a lot since our last post including coaching another great season of volleyball at Broomfield High School.

The volleyball season started anew in August of 2010 and this year Nicole had the Freshman team while I coached the JV team for the 3rd time. Both teams were exceptionally talented and both teams benefitted from countless offseason hours of dedicated girls honing their volleyball skills at club practices, club tournaments, open gyms, individual camps and team camps. A big highlight for the Freshman team was placing second in the Douglas County Freshman Invitational Tournament. They played well, had a ton of support from exuberant fans (thanks parents) and left DCHS only having lost to the host team on their home court. JV saw the continued development of a number of talented players including the emergence of impressive underclassmen. Varsity fought it's way through an expectedly tough league schedule, playing well against some of the best competition in the state. They took 2nd at District Tournament beating a tough Sterling team to advance. Regional tournament proved to be a tall order as BHS drew undefeated (and eventual state champs) Cheyenne Mountain and (3rd place in state as well as league rival) Longmont. Nevertheless they beat an experienced and scrappy Pueblo County team who had only lost 2 matches all season coming into Regionals. We feel so fortunate to be associated with a program that has, over the years, drawn some of the most athletic, dedicated and talented youth that Broomfield has to offer. We have high hopes and expectations for our upcoming off-season events as well as the upper-classmen who will be looking to lead this program back to the State Tournament

Go Eagles!!

It's that time of year again for us, yes it's high school volleyball season. For those of you who don't know, Jeff coaches the J.V. team at Broomfield High School. He's been coaching there 5 years going on 6. He has more Eagle pride than he ever had from his own high school (Horizon Hawks). I've only been a part of the Broomfield volleyball scene for 3 years, but I'm starting so see why he has so much eagle pride. The spirit and the energy from these girls is just really addicting to be around, they are a great group of girls. It's hard to watch the seniors graduate every year, next year will be the hardest when 9 girls that we have become very attached to graduate. We have watched them come on when they were freshman and mature into some great volleyball players, and great young women. So for the next 2 months our blog will become a tribute to the girls on the Broomfield High School volleyball team, with updates from all the games (both J.V. and Varsity) and any highlights that may stand out from those games. The first game of the season was on Thursday night (Aug. 28th) at BHS against the Niwot Cougars. The match went to four games,25-20 25-19 24-26 25-14 . We're very happy that Varsity's season has started with a good note. Jeff's team lost in two to their J.V. team. We hope they get it back together for the next game. I'll have more updates after next weeks games!