Jablonski article today

[Lifelong Flyer Fan]

Very good article, he interviewed Horsman yesterday.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/spor...G6MTV2MBJXCIE/

Included are these national rankings of five of our players

Dayton has five players who rank in the top 50 in the nation.

• Sophomore outside hitter Taylor Russell is 13th in aces per set (0.54).

• Junior outside hitter Lexie Almodovar ranks 16th in kills (4.38), 18th in points (5.0) and 45th in attacks (10.7).

• Junior setter Alyssa Miller is 17th in assists (10.6).

• Senior middle blocker Amelia Moore is 39th in blocks (1.27).

• Sophomore libero Karissa Kaminski ranks 44th in digs (4.62).

Horsmon sees Miller as one of the unsung heroes of the team. She cracked the starting lineup last year and has “completely redefined” the team this season, Horsmon said.

[Chris R]

They are gonna run out of room for All A10 selections. There's no way you can leave Lex, T-Russ, and Moore off. And Miller is probably going to be SOY. Yates hitting % puts her somewhere, and then there's Kaminski.

[BeckysTXA]

Originally Posted by Chris R They are gonna run out of room for All A10 selections. There's no way you can leave Lex, T-Russ, and Moore off. And Miller is probably going to be SOY. Yates hitting % puts her somewhere, and then there's Kaminski.

Lex, T-Rex, Miller and Moore will be 1st Team.
I think Yates will be 2nd team because VCU has a very good MB - Sr. Jasmine Knight - who has had a couple really good weeks and now leads the Conference Only stats in blocks/set and is 3rd in hitting %. Moore lead those stats 2 weeks ago and still is 1st in hitting % and 2nd in blocks. Kaminsky is really good, but like you said, you run out of real estate and she might not make 2nd team this year. The good news is she will probably win LOY next year.

Lex will be POY but don't look now - T-Rex could steal it from her. Knight from VCU and LOY's setter are also in the running.

Hands-down Horsmon is COY.

They announce these I believe next Thursday.

[BeckysTXA]

What I like best about this article is Horsmon's last quote. Someone needs to be pushing the team to get better everyday...and MORE IMPORTANTLY, the team needs to buy into why they are being pushed. I for one am not sure we have played as well this year again, as we did that first match against WKY. We all said it then, we don't want that to be the season's high mark.

I remember several years ago we had a team that was flying through the A10 and had a sparkling record. And they were ranked. But I was posting that we weren't really playing very well. Winning matches in the A10, but dropping sets we should not have been dropping. Then low and behold I get a private message from a parent saying Horsmon was losing the team because he wasn't satisfied with them winning. He was nit-picking everything and the team kept telling him, "But we are winning."

That team got bounced in the first round of the NCAAs. They came crashing down to earth when they had to play a good team because they were not getting better the last half of the year.

Go ahead and drink the Kool-Aid for 24 hours after a win. And then get right back to work chipping away at the little things that are going to make you and the team so much better. And buy-in to what the coaches are saying because they have seen the crash and burn when teams don't take note and keep working hard.