[Hieronymus]

Women’s soccer cruising mostly so far. Smith and Girma looking great. Davidson has been hurt the last 1.7 or so games. I hope she is back for the first knockout game.

The team I will shill for though is Women’s volleyball - total mayhem. Karch has a bunch of talented but variously flawed pieces at OH including Plummer. She has had some good moments hitting and some bad moments returning serve. They went 5 sets in both matches so far, almost reverse sweeping China and almost getting reverse swept by Serbia. One set is brilliant volleyball and the next is total chaos. I have no idea who the best 6 are or if Karch just needs to keep rotating players; but it is hugely entertaining, and the announcers are great. Finally, it is shocking how little it resembles the college game these days. Instead, it’s blast away even out of system with very few long rallies. Definitely worth watching.

[Hieronymus]

Women’s soccer cruising mostly so far. Smith and Girma looking great. Davidson has been hurt the last 1.7 or so games. I hope she is back for the first knockout game.

The team I will shill for though is Women’s volleyball - total mayhem. Karch has a bunch of talented but variously flawed pieces at OH including Plummer. She has had some good moments hitting and some bad moments returning serve. They went 5 sets in both matches so far, almost reverse sweeping China and almost getting reverse swept by Serbia. One set is brilliant volleyball and the next is total chaos. I have no idea who the best 6 are or if Karch just needs to keep rotating players; but it is hugely entertaining, and the announcers are great. Finally, it is shocking how little it resembles the college game these days. Instead, it’s blast away even out of system with very few long rallies. Definitely worth watching.