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Awesome news – Ashley Engle is playing volleyball!
I saw a press release in May saying she had joined the U.S. Women’s National Training Team for a while. Then I hadn’t seen any news.
I wondered if she’d play on the beach, since she’s a natural there as well as indoors. Unfortunately the AVP managed to do a face plant and just splattered itself in mid-August. Nice timing, I thought, for one of my all time favorite players.
Anyhow, someone tipped me to an Engle tweet that she’s playing in Azerbaijan. Which I think is where Borat is from? Wikipedia informs us that the main city, Baku, is on a peninsula in the Caspian. Sounds cool.
Even better, apparently they have awesome volleyball. Nicole Davis is a libero on the U.S. national team and silvered in China; she plays for a club there called Lokomotiv Baku.
Former National Team member Angie McGinnis plays there with a team called Igtisadchi, and quoted in an interview “It's an up-and-coming league. We have eight of our national team players signed there this year. There's a lot of money there so that's where everyone seems to be headed." Other national team players who have or are playing there include Cheryl Weaver, Tayyiba Haneef-Park, and Kim Glass.
Rock on Ashley! Sounds like a good place to tune up until Hugh wakes up and makes the right move.
I suspect everyone knows that Lauren Paolini and Destinee Hooker are with the U.S. National team already. Hook ‘em!
In other news, Jenny Andrew is an assistant coach with Virginia, and has been blogging:The Link
Since she’s way classier than me, she didn’t mention the one huge down-side; having to put up with the sight of former UT assistant coach Ted Wade’s blindingly white, shapeless legs on a daily basis.
Lauren Dickson, on our squad this year, played at Virginia, by the way.
Anyone heard of any other ex-Horns? Heather Kisner? Kiley Hall? Brandy Magee?
I saw a press release in May saying she had joined the U.S. Women’s National Training Team for a while. Then I hadn’t seen any news.
I wondered if she’d play on the beach, since she’s a natural there as well as indoors. Unfortunately the AVP managed to do a face plant and just splattered itself in mid-August. Nice timing, I thought, for one of my all time favorite players.
Anyhow, someone tipped me to an Engle tweet that she’s playing in Azerbaijan. Which I think is where Borat is from? Wikipedia informs us that the main city, Baku, is on a peninsula in the Caspian. Sounds cool.
Even better, apparently they have awesome volleyball. Nicole Davis is a libero on the U.S. national team and silvered in China; she plays for a club there called Lokomotiv Baku.
Former National Team member Angie McGinnis plays there with a team called Igtisadchi, and quoted in an interview “It's an up-and-coming league. We have eight of our national team players signed there this year. There's a lot of money there so that's where everyone seems to be headed." Other national team players who have or are playing there include Cheryl Weaver, Tayyiba Haneef-Park, and Kim Glass.
Rock on Ashley! Sounds like a good place to tune up until Hugh wakes up and makes the right move.
I suspect everyone knows that Lauren Paolini and Destinee Hooker are with the U.S. National team already. Hook ‘em!
In other news, Jenny Andrew is an assistant coach with Virginia, and has been blogging:The Link
Since she’s way classier than me, she didn’t mention the one huge down-side; having to put up with the sight of former UT assistant coach Ted Wade’s blindingly white, shapeless legs on a daily basis.
Lauren Dickson, on our squad this year, played at Virginia, by the way.
Anyone heard of any other ex-Horns? Heather Kisner? Kiley Hall? Brandy Magee?
