A couple of weekends ago we kicked off the CBVA season by traveling up north for an A tournament. Normally, my partner is Ali Justin, however, I didn’t play with Ali this time. Instead, because neither of us had talked about playing, Karey Gregerson asked me if I’d join her. She was going up anyway and REALLY wanted to play instead of just being a spectator. I checked with Ali to see if she’d be cool with that, and on her glowing approval, I registered Karey and myself online.

We both headed into the tourney with no rating and just hoped to do well. We were okay with losing if it had to happen. Hell, we’d only played together for a couple of pick-up games so we had no idea how well we’d do as a team. We ended up taking 3rd place along with another one of the San Diego teams who traveled up with us (I guess we tie because we never actually got to play each other). All-in-all it was a solid performance and each of the two games we lost (to the 1st and 2nd place teams) were very close. It was a great time and because we made it to 3rd place in a 15-team tourney… we earned our A rating as well. God damn, I love me some volleyball!