I told the girls as long as they can maintain that chemistry on the court, that’s hard to coach. “We had some new kids out there, a sophomore in her first match and I thought she did a good job. It was just a matter of limiting those mistakes,” Waubonsie coach Kari Galen said. “I thought we maintained a positive attitude and talked to each other and didn’t get down. The Warriors struggled with missed serves as the match wore on – 10 for the match – but didn’t get down even when they trailed. Reinhard had six kills, senior Alexandra Skurka and Waubonsie never trailed in taking the first set. The Warriors had sophomore Kaitlyn Reinhard playing outside in her first match.īut the Warriors showed plenty of fight. The Warriors received a tough break before the season even started when top hitter Ashlyn Hickey tore her MCL and hurt her ACL coming down during a scrimmage last Friday. Waubonsie is a team coming off a 5-31 season, winless in the DuPage Valley Conference. She turned on the jets and decided she wanted that match.” “Meg got hot so we kept feeding Meg and it worked out.
You can be up, you can be down,” LaCalamita said. Cailyn Smiley, a 5-8 senior outside, added three of her 11 kills in the second set. The 5-foot-9 outside had six of her match-high 13 kills in the second set. Once they got in the groove of things things started to smooth out and they cleaned things up.”Īnd the Wolves got Maier the ball. They were ready to get back on the court. “Coming from a very successful club season, for most of these girls working on offseason camps and everything, they’re itching to play, they haven’t played in 2-3 months. “First-match jitters is what it looked like,” LaCalamita said. It helped Oswego East overcome a first set in which the Wolves committed 13 errors and missed five serves. It’s the refusal to lose aspect that pushes them in matches like this.” “All of our players are club players, and they know the drive to win. “Insanely valuable,” said Oswego East assistant coach Chris LaCalamita, who has been coaching the team while head coach Dina Beamon is on maternity leave. She’s one of six Wolves’ starters that play club for various Sports Performance teams, and it shows in three-set matches like Wednesday’s. Maier is one of nine seniors on an Oswego East team that is coming off a 20-14 season, the 20 wins the most in school history.
We needed to work together, and we needed to work smart.” “We all really needed to get it together.
“We came into this game probably a little overconfident,” Maier admitted. But they gathered themselves, got Maier going and went on to a 21-25, 25-16, 25-18 win in Aurora. Maier and the Wolves struggled through an error-plagued first set in their season-opening match at Waubonsie Valley. Maier’s never give up attitude showed Wednesday, too. “They got a new coach, said we want you, and I got offered last Thursday. “I was completely like ‘Can I come for a visit?’” Maier said. She settled on Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, known for its veterinary medicine program, and never stopped emailing them, even during a volleyball coaching change. The Oswego East senior always wanted to go to veterinary school, narrowed down her choices, and reached out to colleges. AURORA – Megan Maier’s determination is a difference-maker on the volleyball court – and apparently in charting the course of life off the court.
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