Thursday, April 14, 2011

Hello AGGIE FAMILY!!
With only a week of volleyball practice left this spring there is still lots of room for improvement. We have a tournament this upcoming weekend at Texas Tech.
This will be our fourth and final tournament this spring. I can’t believe this is my last spring. I’m so thankful for how much I have learned about life and myself these past 3 years. It’s been an AMAZING JOURNEY so far. Three years ago I came into college a young girl and have transformed into a young women. I have seen some wonderful places, have been blessed to meet some of the most amazing
people and have made some great memories! Wow! Time sure does fly by. ONE-WEEK LEFT!! I’m looking forward to finishing my LAST spring semester STRONG! I absolutely love SPRING semester! Spring is when the team becomes a better, stronger and smarter volleyball team. We run and lift 3 times a week and have practice every weekday with tournaments on the weekends. Our strength and conditioning has been altered a little bit  and we're leaps and bounds better.  We have all worked hard this semester in the practice gym, in the weight room and in the classroom. I definitely can see big improvements from everybody, but know we still have a long ways to go. So we don’t lose everything we have gained this spring, we are to continue working out through the summer to prepare us for a challenging fall semester.  Fall will be here before we know it. We have a hard preseason schedule and I am looking forward to playing teams such as Nebraska who is one of the very physical and talented teams we will play against. The Western Athletic Conference has become a MUCH stronger conference in the last 3 years, which is good to see. With this in mind each conference game will be very challenging. Something that I was taught in my younger years of volleyball was “anybody can beat anyone on any given day.” I truly believe this. Each practice, each game you have to prepare well in order to play well. It takes HARD WORK to play WELL and takes HARD WORK to WIN! We have some VERY talented freshman coming in who will all have a big impact on our success. Some of which will be KEY players for us. I’m eager to be their teammate, to inspire them, and lead them towards being WAC champions and doing well in the NCAA’s.  Summer is almost here! YAY!! Which means……….. I become an AUNTIE of a little princess, 100-degree weather, sun tan lines, swimming pools, workouts, thunderstorms, family time, lemonade, sunshine, watermelon, smiles, BBQs and laughter. Enjoy your SUMMER EVERYONE!!!! Can’t wait to see you all in the fall!

GO AGGIES!!!
Jennah DeVries #10