KCmama

It goes to show how sports crazy we get. It is all about being #1. If somebody stacked, or rigged, the all-tournament team it is wrong, and should be considered cheating. I have had to watch my daughter play her heart out and have everyone tell her that she was going to make an all-tournament team just to watch a child who is a coaches pet, and whos parents are politically connected win out. Say what you want, but that is wrong.

Is the all-state tournament team already selected? If so why even play. Volleyball is a TEAM sport, way to many people get attention because they are big hitters.

This whole situation is sad.

It is hard when coaches play favorites, either to the parents that are constantly in their ear, or to the superstar. I appreciate the honesty of your post. I wish more parents (and coaches) would just let the girls play and have fun. It is difficult being a teenage girl. We have become a society that only focuses on number 1. I am sure this is not the first time (or the last) that politics have gotten an unearned or undeserved reward.

AAA

Dobyns Bennett over Oak Ridge

Farragut over Morristown East

Red Bank over siegel

Cookeville over Clevland

Independance over Rossview

Brentwood over Smyrna

Munford over Houston

Bartlett over Collierville

A/AA

Anderson County over S. Greene

Stone Memorial over Sullivan North

Boyd B. over Macon

Greenbrier over East Ridge

Page over DCA

Loretto over CPA

Lexington over Crockett Co.

USJ over Jackson South Side

Was the "Big Haired" lady the asst coach from last season? I must have misread this post earlier? If it was a parent from last years team this is even worse. Our school has the same problem with parents of recent graduates who try to stir stuff up. Let the girls play.

All Tournament slections ARE important to the girls. They should be fair, and not based on political correctness. Catholic hosted the Regional Tournament Tuesday and of the four teams Stone Memorial had three people make the team, Anderson County had three, Seymour had 1 and Gibbs had zero. That was probably fair. Coaches need to be more worried about other stuff than making sure certain players make these teams.

5-Sport, I agree 100%. These all tournament teams are a joke. The "committee" is usually picked by the coach and told who to pick before the first ball is played. Head coaches make sure the "right" girls get picked as supposed to the ones that "deserve" to picked.

Good luck tonight, but I doubt you will need any! Should be an easy ride.

Hope all you want, now that Catholic is out there is no one standing in Greenbrier's way. It will be an all green halloween. 5-Sport Dad has predicited a repeat all season and he is going to get his wish. It will be a surprise if Greenbrier drops a game from here on out.

Our season is over because of this whole situation. Mrs Tritt, you have no reason to get on here and post the stuff that you do, We should have had to play Stone Memorial, not AC in round 1. Recruiting is wrong. Alot of what goes on in sports is wrong. Shame on you.

In District 4 we are at the halfway point of the season.

Anderson County is undefeated

Stone Memorial has 1 loss (to AC)

Catholic has 2 losses (AC & SM)

and CAK is 4th.

It will probably play out just like this. It is like Mrs. Tritt said in another post, we are rebuilding this year. The girls are having fun and that is all that matters. We might could beat SM, but they have two really good players. AC beat us pretty badly at our Catholic.

It was NOT a great game. Catholic should have won in 3, but hopefully the coaches learned a little lesson about letting the girls play. They have to know that everyone is trying to beat us because we are the defending district champions.

It is extremely unfair to make the visiting teams play in the small gym instead of the big gym. Also, the students were right next to the court and were allowed to stand and yell.

A precursor to the district and region championship will take place Thursday night when Catholic plays SM. Catholic has never lost to Stone Memorial, and this year these two schools are the two best AA schools in East Tenn.

SM should have been at the state tournament last year, but stumbled in the district. Catholic is poised to meet Greenbrier in the state finals but expects SM to be its toughest opponent on the road to state.

It will be a tough match but KC should win round one of this war 3-1!

5 sport it is going to be a "Green Halloween."

I am stunned that Stone Memorial lost this match???

Well said 5 sport. There is a huge bias on this web site. Fact: During the last 3 years, without question, the best two A/AA teams have been Catholic and Greenbrier. They should have met in the finals last year. Those two teams are driven by talent, not coaches. I am not saying the coaches do a bad job, in FACT they do a good job, but they would do a GREAT job if they gave the better athletes more freedom. I agree with catsfan, how hard is to coach two teams like this that have more talent then any other school. Catholic and Greenbrier are the top two schools because they have the best talent. I know it is not the political thing to say but does anybody really think that the finals this year is NOT going to be Catholic and Greenbrier. They have the most talent, and should win. That is no slam against Page.

The coaches job is to let the talent play. If Greenbrier doesn't have Kayla Arnold, they don't win. It wouldn't matter how good their coach is. She doesn't hit the ball. This young lady is an awesome talent. She has solid teammates around her that know how to get her the ball. Same for us, take away the talent and Game Over. We lost the state championship last year and the year befoe because we were over coached. Look at the team we had and we play a new player at the state tournament, who had been ineligible all year?

Sports are driven by the talent, at every level.

At the end of the day Catholic and Greenbrier will be the best 2 teams just like it has been for the last three years.

I know for a FACT that Catholic High School does NOT pay any of its players!!! The girls that transfer to our school come so that they can have fun playing a sport. It is CRAZY to say that a school would pay money for a child to play volleyball. Sounds like alot of sour grapes to me. /roflolk.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflolk:" border="0" alt="roflolk.gif" /> /roflolk.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflolk:" border="0" alt="roflolk.gif" />

Great job! I thought all along that Greenbrier was the team to beat, this just proves it. I like what you said about the coach needs a little "tweaking." Great athletes really don't need that much coaching. I think the coach gets in the way. The better teams almost seem to "coach" themselves. Some of these high school coaches want all of the attention.

How hard is it to set the ball to the best hitter and let her get a kill.

I thought Greenbriers only mistake last year was not getting the better of the two sisters the ball MORE last year. She was unstoppable! Which of the Arnold sisters was the MVP?

I could coach that girl. Lets see, hmmm....., okay here is our plan we are going to set her the ball and get out of the way. Catsfan, this may be the best post I have ever read. It is about time that the athletes get the credit, and not some of these "coaches."

I wish it was more about the girls!!!

Late results, Catholic with there best player (setter) on the bench dominated a weak field.

This post is about players to watch After sitting at East Ridge all day, it is going to be a weak year. The best player in the gym was Catholics setter who was out. I did like the middle blocker from East Ridge. Didn't really see anybody else.

Early prediction. Knoxville Catholic dominates a weak field, and Finally gets recognition as the top team in East Tenn.

5 sport, who did you guys lose? I remember the twin sisters and the really tall girl in the middle and the setter, all of whom I thought were really good. Did one of them graduate.

In a non-blonde moment, I will assume that the twin sisters are in the same class /dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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KCDaddy (at least not Jess's dad) is no relation, but a great guy. We lost Jess and our district MVP to graduation, but probably have a better team coming back. Maybe an all-GREEN state finals /popcorneater.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":popcorneater:" border="0" alt="popcorneater.gif" />

No disrespect meant to a great state champion. After winning our pool we expected to play you guys in the finals and got caught looking ahead.

Your team looked awesome and deserved to win. I was not trying to start anything, just trying to recognize a great player who had to sit out last season because of an injury.

Good luck and I hope you have a good season.

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Get ready to add a big time recruit to the list. Catholic had to play last season without their top setter who hurt her knee before the season starts. I think she will be the best setter prospect in the state. Had she not been hurt Greenbriar would have had to settle for number 2!

KCDaddy's daughter graduated. I don't know how good we will be this year. We lost many of our best players. Our best setter was hurt last season, and we will have some girls transfer in, but we lost alot.

Hopefully this "rivalry" thing with Anderson County is over. They whipped us at the end of last season. We placed too much emphasis on trying to beat them, and lost focus on trying to win a regional championship. I speak for the majority (but not all) of the Catholic fans in saying we really like the girls, parents and coaches at Anderson. They are always nice, and a FUN team to watch. I hope my fellow parents don't get anything stirred up this year and just let the girls have some fun!

I am AGAIN showing my ignorance as a "new" volleyball parent, but don't we have to beat Greenville tonight in order to make it to the state tournament?

What district are you from?

Is it supposed to be the best player on the team that wins the district? What are the criteria?

How is the regular season district MVP selected? Is it picked by the newspaper or does the coach make the choice? Is it supposed to be the best player in the district?