Baby Doll's 1st Volleyball Tournament

The volleyball season has officially started! On Friday, Baby Doll skipped school and we headed for Syracuse. I was only an hour or so, but we didn’t want to drive home late and come back early, so my sweetie used his Marriott points to find us a free hotel for the night.

We didn’t have much time after checking in before we had to drive 10 minutes to the tournament site.  Baby Doll was playing outside hitter, but she was still subbing in and out. With about 10 girls on the team, only an elite few played all the time.

After the first few sets, Baby Doll stopped subbing out.

Pool play ended early and we got back to the hotel in time for Baby Doll to have a quick swim.

Dinner and a movie and we tried to sleep. We had to be at the gym in Kaysville at 7:15AM.

More pool play before they were assigned the Bronze bracket.

Volleyball days are long and there is lots of waiting while other teams play.

And the gyms are all so cold!!

But Baby Doll continued to play. It was rare that she ever subbed out. The final game was against another GSL team. They split and went to a third tiebreaker game.

14 - 14!! It was a nail-biter, but our girls finally came out on top, 14 - 16!!

We got home just after 6. It was a long day, but a good one.

So proud of my girl.