07-27-2021, 05:43 PM
Keep in mind the scholarship limit of 12 is back for 2022.
Stanford Women’s Volleyball 2021
07-27-2021, 05:54 PM
I think anyone who has followed volleyball and Stanford now know who BaseballJunkie is. Congrats on Tim's great career on the Farm. And i hope your new venture works out - the community is not the same with your voice covering all the players and teams.
As for when a recruit should announce, it really depends on the recruit and his/her comfortableness with ambiguity. Because the decision ultimately lies with the admissions office, it is out of your hands, no matter how stellar your academics are. I remember when Cynthia Barboza committed super early as a junior (well early for early 2000s). When I asked Corlett about it, she said it was a no-brainer that Barboza was going to be admitted because of her grades. I do remember a soccer player who had committed to Stanford and had written a blog about it... and then it turns out she got rejected and ended up going to another local school. Those type of scenarios would scare me about committing early... but again, it all depends on the person, their grades, and how they deal with the unknown.
As for when a recruit should announce, it really depends on the recruit and his/her comfortableness with ambiguity. Because the decision ultimately lies with the admissions office, it is out of your hands, no matter how stellar your academics are. I remember when Cynthia Barboza committed super early as a junior (well early for early 2000s). When I asked Corlett about it, she said it was a no-brainer that Barboza was going to be admitted because of her grades. I do remember a soccer player who had committed to Stanford and had written a blog about it... and then it turns out she got rejected and ended up going to another local school. Those type of scenarios would scare me about committing early... but again, it all depends on the person, their grades, and how they deal with the unknown.
I think anyone who has followed volleyball and Stanford now know who BaseballJunkie is. Congrats on Tim's great career on the Farm. And i hope your new venture works out - the community is not the same with your voice covering all the players and teams.
As for when a recruit should announce, it really depends on the recruit and his/her comfortableness with ambiguity. Because the decision ultimately lies with the admissions office, it is out of your hands, no matter how stellar your academics are. I remember when Cynthia Barboza committed super early as a junior (well early for early 2000s). When I asked Corlett about it, she said it was a no-brainer that Barboza was going to be admitted because of her grades. I do remember a soccer player who had committed to Stanford and had written a blog about it... and then it turns out she got rejected and ended up going to another local school. Those type of scenarios would scare me about committing early... but again, it all depends on the person, their grades, and how they deal with the unknown.
As for when a recruit should announce, it really depends on the recruit and his/her comfortableness with ambiguity. Because the decision ultimately lies with the admissions office, it is out of your hands, no matter how stellar your academics are. I remember when Cynthia Barboza committed super early as a junior (well early for early 2000s). When I asked Corlett about it, she said it was a no-brainer that Barboza was going to be admitted because of her grades. I do remember a soccer player who had committed to Stanford and had written a blog about it... and then it turns out she got rejected and ended up going to another local school. Those type of scenarios would scare me about committing early... but again, it all depends on the person, their grades, and how they deal with the unknown.
07-27-2021, 11:14 PM
Does anyone know if Hentz was invited to try out for the Olympic team? I'm watching the match against China from yesterday and I am not impressed by Wong Orantes.
What other liberos were in training camp that were left off the roster? The only person who comes to mind is PSU grad Meghan Courtney, but I'm not sure if she is even on the Senior team any more.
What other liberos were in training camp that were left off the roster? The only person who comes to mind is PSU grad Meghan Courtney, but I'm not sure if she is even on the Senior team any more.
Does anyone know if Hentz was invited to try out for the Olympic team? I'm watching the match against China from yesterday and I am not impressed by Wong Orantes.
What other liberos were in training camp that were left off the roster? The only person who comes to mind is PSU grad Meghan Courtney, but I'm not sure if she is even on the Senior team any more.
What other liberos were in training camp that were left off the roster? The only person who comes to mind is PSU grad Meghan Courtney, but I'm not sure if she is even on the Senior team any more.
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07-28-2021, 06:33 AM
Both Hentz and Courtney were on the final training roster of 23 players. Hentz got cut before the VNL tournament in Italy in May. Courtney made it to VNL but didn't make the final 12 player roster. Apparently Karch thought Wong-Orantes was the best choice for libero. If USA wins gold you have to defer to Karch for making the correct roster choices. If USA doesn't win gold there will be plenty of criticism for his libero and setter choices.
Courtney and Stanford's Plummer are both considered "alternates" so if Covid hit the team in Tokyo they would be eligible to fly there and be on the team but that seems unlikely at this point.
Courtney and Stanford's Plummer are both considered "alternates" so if Covid hit the team in Tokyo they would be eligible to fly there and be on the team but that seems unlikely at this point.
Both Hentz and Courtney were on the final training roster of 23 players. Hentz got cut before the VNL tournament in Italy in May. Courtney made it to VNL but didn't make the final 12 player roster. Apparently Karch thought Wong-Orantes was the best choice for libero. If USA wins gold you have to defer to Karch for making the correct roster choices. If USA doesn't win gold there will be plenty of criticism for his libero and setter choices.
Courtney and Stanford's Plummer are both considered "alternates" so if Covid hit the team in Tokyo they would be eligible to fly there and be on the team but that seems unlikely at this point.
Courtney and Stanford's Plummer are both considered "alternates" so if Covid hit the team in Tokyo they would be eligible to fly there and be on the team but that seems unlikely at this point.
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07-28-2021, 11:37 AM
I watched Foluke-led USA sweep China in a tightly contested match. The head coach of China is Lang Ping. Back in the day she was considered by many to be the most popular athlete in China and was known as the Iron Hammer.
Her daughter is Lydia Bai who played for Stanford. One time I was at a club tournament watching a team with Bai and Haley Spelman. By happenstance Lang Ping sat down next to me and started shouting out instructions to Lydia in Chinese. I didn't understand any of it. I could tell from Lydia's demeanor, her attitude was "I know what I'm doing; I don't need any instruction from you".
Bai was not as good a baller as her mother and never played VB professionally. She currently is an executive at a South Bay company dealing with Machine Learning.
Her daughter is Lydia Bai who played for Stanford. One time I was at a club tournament watching a team with Bai and Haley Spelman. By happenstance Lang Ping sat down next to me and started shouting out instructions to Lydia in Chinese. I didn't understand any of it. I could tell from Lydia's demeanor, her attitude was "I know what I'm doing; I don't need any instruction from you".
Bai was not as good a baller as her mother and never played VB professionally. She currently is an executive at a South Bay company dealing with Machine Learning.
I watched Foluke-led USA sweep China in a tightly contested match. The head coach of China is Lang Ping. Back in the day she was considered by many to be the most popular athlete in China and was known as the Iron Hammer.
Her daughter is Lydia Bai who played for Stanford. One time I was at a club tournament watching a team with Bai and Haley Spelman. By happenstance Lang Ping sat down next to me and started shouting out instructions to Lydia in Chinese. I didn't understand any of it. I could tell from Lydia's demeanor, her attitude was "I know what I'm doing; I don't need any instruction from you".
Bai was not as good a baller as her mother and never played VB professionally. She currently is an executive at a South Bay company dealing with Machine Learning.
Her daughter is Lydia Bai who played for Stanford. One time I was at a club tournament watching a team with Bai and Haley Spelman. By happenstance Lang Ping sat down next to me and started shouting out instructions to Lydia in Chinese. I didn't understand any of it. I could tell from Lydia's demeanor, her attitude was "I know what I'm doing; I don't need any instruction from you".
Bai was not as good a baller as her mother and never played VB professionally. She currently is an executive at a South Bay company dealing with Machine Learning.
07-28-2021, 04:34 PM
07-28-2021, 04:58 PM
(07-28-2021, 04:34 PM)BobK Wrote: Don’t forget the movie Palo AltoI started watching "Leap" once, but never finished. Madi Bugg was an extra as a player in a VB match.
https://asianmoviepulse.com/2021/01/pete...lydia-bai/
(07-28-2021, 04:34 PM)BobK Wrote: Don’t forget the movie Palo AltoI started watching "Leap" once, but never finished. Madi Bugg was an extra as a player in a VB match.
https://asianmoviepulse.com/2021/01/pete...lydia-bai/
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08-01-2021, 07:51 AM
When is the first official day of practice? I'm guessing next Sunday August 8.
Will there be an intra-squad scrimmage open to the public? My oldest son lives in Palo Alto. I want to visit him this month and am thinking of scheduling it around an open team scrimmage.
This team is a total unknown. The only player with any real experience who might be a starter is Campbell and she has been out for a year with a knee injury.
Will there be an intra-squad scrimmage open to the public? My oldest son lives in Palo Alto. I want to visit him this month and am thinking of scheduling it around an open team scrimmage.
This team is a total unknown. The only player with any real experience who might be a starter is Campbell and she has been out for a year with a knee injury.
When is the first official day of practice? I'm guessing next Sunday August 8.
Will there be an intra-squad scrimmage open to the public? My oldest son lives in Palo Alto. I want to visit him this month and am thinking of scheduling it around an open team scrimmage.
This team is a total unknown. The only player with any real experience who might be a starter is Campbell and she has been out for a year with a knee injury.
Will there be an intra-squad scrimmage open to the public? My oldest son lives in Palo Alto. I want to visit him this month and am thinking of scheduling it around an open team scrimmage.
This team is a total unknown. The only player with any real experience who might be a starter is Campbell and she has been out for a year with a knee injury.
08-01-2021, 09:02 AM
Probably Aug 6. 21 days prior to first game. Hope for both bbq and scrimmage
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08-02-2021, 12:45 PM
Tami Alade wins post-graduate scholarship.
https://gostanford.com/news/2021/8/2/ath...nners.aspx
She [Tami Alade] has been working as a health associate alongside a pediatrician at a school for early education in East Palo Alto.
She worked harder than anyone on the team to improve her game knowing all along she had no plans to play volleyball after college.
Tami played on the volleyball team at a private high school in a small Canadian town. Some of the players served underhand which means there was little more than a basic skill level with no real coaching. To end up being a key factor in winning the 2018 DI national championship is almost beyond belief. Also, hats off to Dunning for recruiting an athlete that no other US college looked at.
https://gostanford.com/news/2021/8/2/ath...nners.aspx
She [Tami Alade] has been working as a health associate alongside a pediatrician at a school for early education in East Palo Alto.
She worked harder than anyone on the team to improve her game knowing all along she had no plans to play volleyball after college.
Tami played on the volleyball team at a private high school in a small Canadian town. Some of the players served underhand which means there was little more than a basic skill level with no real coaching. To end up being a key factor in winning the 2018 DI national championship is almost beyond belief. Also, hats off to Dunning for recruiting an athlete that no other US college looked at.
Tami Alade wins post-graduate scholarship.
https://gostanford.com/news/2021/8/2/ath...nners.aspx
She [Tami Alade] has been working as a health associate alongside a pediatrician at a school for early education in East Palo Alto.
She worked harder than anyone on the team to improve her game knowing all along she had no plans to play volleyball after college.
Tami played on the volleyball team at a private high school in a small Canadian town. Some of the players served underhand which means there was little more than a basic skill level with no real coaching. To end up being a key factor in winning the 2018 DI national championship is almost beyond belief. Also, hats off to Dunning for recruiting an athlete that no other US college looked at.
https://gostanford.com/news/2021/8/2/ath...nners.aspx
She [Tami Alade] has been working as a health associate alongside a pediatrician at a school for early education in East Palo Alto.
She worked harder than anyone on the team to improve her game knowing all along she had no plans to play volleyball after college.
Tami played on the volleyball team at a private high school in a small Canadian town. Some of the players served underhand which means there was little more than a basic skill level with no real coaching. To end up being a key factor in winning the 2018 DI national championship is almost beyond belief. Also, hats off to Dunning for recruiting an athlete that no other US college looked at.
(08-02-2021, 12:45 PM)paloalto Wrote: hats off to Dunning for recruiting an athlete that no other US college looked at.and to Hambly for challenging her to be the best she could be. From a Daily article:
[She had believed she was just a practice player, but] "we reached a point in our season where we would need someone to step up. There had to be a brobdingnagian attitude shift from me, and Kevin sat me down and said that I needed to be more competitive and he needed me to have a different mentality about what I could do for this team. I’ve had people believe in me, but he was the first where it really hit that I could be something more than I thought.
For that preseason and the first half of junior year, it was all about working on that attitude shift and believing that there was something more for me to contribute. There was a role that needed to be filled and I was forced to step up, and Kevin really encouraged me to step into that role."
Getting into Georgetown Med is no mean feat: 14,000+ applications for 200 spots.
(08-02-2021, 12:45 PM)paloalto Wrote: hats off to Dunning for recruiting an athlete that no other US college looked at.and to Hambly for challenging her to be the best she could be. From a Daily article:
[She had believed she was just a practice player, but] "we reached a point in our season where we would need someone to step up. There had to be a brobdingnagian attitude shift from me, and Kevin sat me down and said that I needed to be more competitive and he needed me to have a different mentality about what I could do for this team. I’ve had people believe in me, but he was the first where it really hit that I could be something more than I thought.
For that preseason and the first half of junior year, it was all about working on that attitude shift and believing that there was something more for me to contribute. There was a role that needed to be filled and I was forced to step up, and Kevin really encouraged me to step into that role."
Getting into Georgetown Med is no mean feat: 14,000+ applications for 200 spots.
08-03-2021, 10:41 AM
It's people like Alade that make me so proud to be a Stanford sports fan. We're not just rooting for laundry--we're rooting for a lot of truly special people.
It's people like Alade that make me so proud to be a Stanford sports fan. We're not just rooting for laundry--we're rooting for a lot of truly special people.
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08-03-2021, 12:48 PM
https://usavolleyball.org/story/usa-voll...onal-team/
Maggie Mendelson makes the U18 final 12 player roster for USA volleyball. The team will start training September 16 in Anaheim and depart on Sept 20 for the U18 world championship.
Mendelson is the only athlete to make both national youth teams in volleyball and basketball in the same year.
Maggie Mendelson makes the U18 final 12 player roster for USA volleyball. The team will start training September 16 in Anaheim and depart on Sept 20 for the U18 world championship.
Mendelson is the only athlete to make both national youth teams in volleyball and basketball in the same year.
https://usavolleyball.org/story/usa-voll...onal-team/
Maggie Mendelson makes the U18 final 12 player roster for USA volleyball. The team will start training September 16 in Anaheim and depart on Sept 20 for the U18 world championship.
Mendelson is the only athlete to make both national youth teams in volleyball and basketball in the same year.
Maggie Mendelson makes the U18 final 12 player roster for USA volleyball. The team will start training September 16 in Anaheim and depart on Sept 20 for the U18 world championship.
Mendelson is the only athlete to make both national youth teams in volleyball and basketball in the same year.
1,600 schools now refuse or limit the SAT/ACT, including these 122 California universities and colleges:
https://www.fairtest.org/university/optional
https://www.fairtest.org/university/optional
Audaces fortuna iuvat
1,600 schools now refuse or limit the SAT/ACT, including these 122 California universities and colleges:
https://www.fairtest.org/university/optional
https://www.fairtest.org/university/optional
Audaces fortuna iuvat
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08-06-2021, 02:06 PM
I'd like to go to the open practice. Some questions:
Do you have to be an invited VIP or is it open to the public at large?
Does the email say anything about presenting proof of covid vaccinations?
Is the practice in Maples or in the small gym?
Do you have to be an invited VIP or is it open to the public at large?
Does the email say anything about presenting proof of covid vaccinations?
Is the practice in Maples or in the small gym?
I'd like to go to the open practice. Some questions:
Do you have to be an invited VIP or is it open to the public at large?
Does the email say anything about presenting proof of covid vaccinations?
Is the practice in Maples or in the small gym?
Do you have to be an invited VIP or is it open to the public at large?
Does the email say anything about presenting proof of covid vaccinations?
Is the practice in Maples or in the small gym?
08-06-2021, 02:18 PM
In Maples
It’s their season ticket holder mailing list. Check your pm in 10
It’s their season ticket holder mailing list. Check your pm in 10
08-06-2021, 05:13 PM
(08-06-2021, 02:42 PM)oldalum Wrote: the new County order I believe will require masks for the public in Maples except when eating/drinkingAlways hated the eating/drinking exemption.
cost is $15
Does a virus take time off when the host is getting nourishment?
I think at this point those planning to go to a Stanford event in any venue should plan on wearing a mask while in the stands. Hopefully the county will permit that type of mitigation effort rather than go directly to reducing capacities or eliminating fans in the stands entirely.
(08-06-2021, 02:42 PM)oldalum Wrote: the new County order I believe will require masks for the public in Maples except when eating/drinkingAlways hated the eating/drinking exemption.
cost is $15
Does a virus take time off when the host is getting nourishment?
I think at this point those planning to go to a Stanford event in any venue should plan on wearing a mask while in the stands. Hopefully the county will permit that type of mitigation effort rather than go directly to reducing capacities or eliminating fans in the stands entirely.
08-06-2021, 05:49 PM
Given my seat is right behind the first Stanford bench I’ll be wearing a mask
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