 Hello and welcome into the coach's corner. I'm Joe Wamba joined now with Dave Trumbo head coach of the women's volleyball team and coach last week Didn't play over the weekend But you guys go out to wider and get that all important conference when to keep it rolling win streaks up to seven now Yeah, Widener is always a tough team on the road Always have a lot of concern Actually, Kristen Brooks's family's from there. So she had like 20 people on the stand So it almost made it made it pretty equal as far as the noise went but and Kristen had a good nine kill match But Widener can be tough. They had us 20 to 15 in the third and fortunately we're able to Get that win and get out of there with a three-nothing victory and a lot of good performances across the board yet Four girls with eight or more kills. Yeah, that's and that's what you really want to see They just they can't stop any one particular player, you know, our right sides have been really playing well the legs last nine or ten matches Mariah Savage had that big weekend last week in which she had 15 kills in each set So she continued she had a learn we were had eight and then on a course with 12 and Kristen with nine You know and then and Chelsea and then Victoria hit 500 in the middle and Chelsea had four blocks and our setters We're almost dead even in assists. So we're very balanced, which is exactly what you want to see At this time of the year that so many kids are contributing to our success and this time of year in this week Is going to be awfully important. You have Albright coming in on Tuesday You go to Catholic on Thursday and then that quad match with four quality teams including yourself on Saturday, right? Well, you know Albright is coming down here They just beat like coming three nothing. So it's like the conference is getting better but so we got Albright Tuesday and Catholic we're going down to Catholic. They're 19 and five get teams like that on their home court That's going to be a really difficult match Stockton was is getting votes for the top 25 So they you know, they're really strong went to sweet 16 last year So that's going to be a great for match for us on Saturday really test us So we've got some good competition coming up. We're looking forward to it and keeping that Expecting the hopefully for the win streak to continue. What are going to be the keys to success in these four games that you have this week? Is it going to be Continuing that equal play and stellar play of everybody contributing getting a lot of kills or well, you know It's first off. It's you know, it's a it's a passing and serving game You know, if if we don't pass then Sarah and Julie can't set and then our hitters can't hit and the last couple of matches And you might as well come right out and say, I mean, we only have three receivers It's a received Deanna Bradbury, Annika Swartz and Kristen Brooks and they the three of them have been passing very very well Which really makes our kill percentage go up and everything looks very smooth when we get out of system and we got to force things and Put hitters in difficult positions. That's when they make errors, but our passing has been great our serving especially good against Eastern so we you got to serve tough pass well and everything else will take care of itself And I think the play up along the net has been really important for you guys as well Chelsea's been blocking like crazy and Lauren and Victoria also have been, you know, lending a hand in the block of along the net Yeah, they kind of started with that Eastern match We've been working on blocking and then we had 12 total blocks against Eastern and and you know, Joe It doesn't they don't even have to block it if they can just get a hand on it and slow it down So our defense can dig it to target and then we can run our offense in transition off of their attack That's that's important So things that don't go down the stat sheets are the how many times that that Chelsea or Mariah or one of the Front row players would actually contact the ball and us be able to dig it And then dig it to dig it to target as we say so we can run we can run something or they have to tip it over or not Get so much heat on the on the hit Down the sideline or the net and right letting our diggers dig the ball Right. Well, we'd love to force them into tipping now Tipping if some players are really good at tipping and their disguise it very well But if we can force them into tipping hopefully our defense will be able to dig that up And then we can run our offense right off of that dig It's a very learned skill to have yeah, well reading the game They call that reading the game and reading the hitter and you know That's why we keep shot charts and how many times that kid's tipped and where do they tip You know where are they hitting hard so we can align our defense and give us some tendencies to work on as to how We're going to defense each one of those hitters. Well coach. I appreciate your time as always and good luck in the games You have this week. Thanks Joe. He's Dave Trumbo, and I'm Joe Wamba. This has been the coaches corner