Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Lessons learned heading into spring finale


Kent State concludes its spring schedule with the Golden Flashes Spring Tournament on Saturday. Sophomore defensive specialist Alexis Rains and freshman middle blocker Drew Norberg take a look back at the last two weekends of competition and discuss this weekend’s home event.


Alexis Rains
The first weekend we played at Duquesne and it was exiting for me because I live in Pittsburgh. We played against Duquesne, Robert Morris and two Pitt teams. We fell short in all of our matches, but it was really good competition. Duquesne won their conference last year, Pitt finished in the top half of the ACC and RMU is also a good team.

It was definitely a learning weekend for us. I feel like we got better as the day went on. We took what happened during that first weekend and we went to practice the following week with a whole different mentality of wanting to get stuff done. So it was motivation and we definitely got better from the first weekend to the second.

We are really looking forward to playing at home to end the spring. This weekend’s always fun because you’re defending your home court. You have a lot to prove and everyone wants to beat you. There’s going to be a lot of good competition and I’m excited to see what we can do.



Drew Norberg
Just like the first weekend, the Michigan State tournament was a learning experience. Our matches were against IPFW, Grand Valley State, Ferris State and MSU. We stepped it up and won a few matches, which was good. I feel like two areas where we improved a lot from the first weekend were serving and owning the net. We were a lot stronger at the net offensively.

I was really excited to have a chance to compete against other teams. Obviously when you’re playing against the same people everyday in practice, you know what they’re going to do and when they’re going to do it. It’s fun to be competitive in a different way and not know what your opponent is going to do.

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