 Hello and welcome into the coach's corner. I'm Joe Wombo joined now with Dave Trombo head coach of the women's volleyball team And it's a a somber day for us today Dropping that first-round game in the NCAA tournament. However, there's gonna be positives to take away from it Yeah, it was a Little devastating, you know, we we were in the match and we really never believed we were never gonna lose And so sometimes you're in a match and you kind of know you're gonna lose We did never thought we were lose. We thought we'd go five we you know, we won the first set we hit really well and second set they played much better than us so we go in one-to-one in the third set and you lose 26-24 and And 25-23 in the fourth so There were a lot of positives, but there were some negatives as well And some of those positives are some of the individual performance first Chelsea Ireland involved in nine of the 14 total block Yeah, Chelsea had a really good match as far as blocking actually the whole team did with 14 total blocks Which is I believe the most we've had all year something that you know I think a good scouting report and be on a read the setter and read their offense Contributes to that but Chelsea, you know got on the board with nine block assist I think that is the most she's had this year and those blocks just helped, you know Elevate the level of play, you know after a block that the team just is Yeah, yeah, yeah, because there's a lot of blocks that the other team just digs right back up But for them to go to the floor and be a point, you know, it's actually and statistically it's counted as a hitting era for the other team So you know 14 of them and in four sets is darn good and you talked about it a little bit With some of the individual performances before we hit record Deanna Bradbury having as many digs as she did. Yeah I thought Deanna probably played one of her best matches of the year with 29 digs You know, it's over seven. You know, she's averaging around five digs a set But you know this time seven seven digs per set and you know, actually both teams defensively played Extremely well is very entertaining match and just super athletic plays made throughout and you touched on it earlier as well You guys never counted yourselves out of the match at all and that's the way it's been all season for you guys to that mentality Right, you know, and you Joe you look at the statistics. We out hit them by 40 points. We out blocked them by four Unfortunately, the you know, we've talked about this all year. It's a passing and serving game We made a few more service errors than they did and they had a few more aces than we did and that turned out when you know When the total if you out of all the points we lost by three points and you know And those things become a little bit more glaring. What does the season that you have? They just had what does that do in terms of optimism a heading into the offseason for indoor? And then some of these players are also playing on the beach team I think when they step away from the season to tell you the truth that we don't go the NCAA tournament It's the season is not successful and we did do that. We just fully expected to go a lot farther than what we did so I think when they look back at The win against Eastern when they were number 13 the win against Hopkins who did go to the second round upset Chris for Newport, I'm not sure that was that much of an upset But Hopkins was the sixth seed and they upset Chris for Newport. So it'd be Hopkins the win against Stockton And of course Messiah was was a huge win in the championship game. So there's a lot of really good things I think that they come away with a lot of confidence knowing full well that they can play on that national stage And we didn't play bad. You know when you hold a team to hitting 098 and you lose Yeah, it's a little tough to swallow. I mean because our defense, you know, which includes that blocking Really played very very well. And of course tip of the hat to the seniors that leave us after this season and Had an outstanding career in performance all season long. Yeah, well Kristen Brooks in this same match last year against the same team the first round NCAA struggled a little bit passing and We didn't have to tell her Chris They're going after you what they did She received 40 balls and the coach and the other team told her at the end We finally just stopped serving you because she passed so well and she graded out as our top passer That particular match but to just show she took 40 receives Deanna took 22 and Annika took 19 So she took double event almost double of anybody else and she responded which was great for her Sarah Ballinger had you know, I thought a fan fantastic year to Be a good leader and get second team law conference and she was only setting three rotations I thought that was pretty well very well as as well and Kelsey stave Jackie Zepa Were really vocal and in practice they did play some during the year They did not play in the NCAA tournament game, but great contributions in their four years It's tough to play a sport for four years and they made amazing contributions on and off the court She they absolutely did all across the board and we tip our hats to you and the the seniors and the members of the team and Congratulations on a season well had in the six straight time into the country to the tournament. Yeah Well, we're gonna go for seven now. We just want to go farther. We wish you the best of luck coach. Thanks, Joe He's Dave Trombo. I'm Joe Waman. This has been the coaches corner