Motherlode

Traci and I loaded up Linda's corolla last friday to head for our favorite volleyball tournament of the year in Aspen, Colorado. We have been a couple of times before and really love the beautiful scenery and a town full of volleyball athletes and fans. There were 34 teams in the women's open division. A couple of years ago we faced a tough team who eliminated us from the tournament, giving us a 9th place finish. This year that team, Colleen Hunter and Meghan House of St. Louis, won the San Francisco Barefoot Cup qualifier to get to play in the AVP main event. We were so happy to beat them this year in the second round! Here are some pics of that match.

Winning that match set us up against the number one seed of the tournament, Paige Davis and Janelle Ruen, a team that plays professionally in the AVP, and won the motherlode tourney last year. We played great and beat them in two straight sets! That match won us a lot of crowd support. On Monday, we played a tough Texas team and beat them pretty easily in two sets. Because of the cross over format, we then played Paige and Janelle again in the semi-finals. They played much better and pulled out the first set to beat us 25-23. They won the second 21-14. We played our hearts out and had a great time on the court and off. We finished the tournament tied for third and were thrilled with that result. We won some money and were the only team in the top four that were not professional athletes. Go team mormon mommies!