Self-described as "that girl who sits on the bench and catches scarves, books, pens and sometimes even heavy necklaces that Susie throws when she gets frustrated," she will be writing the blog every week for the team and the many endeavors they encounter.
Today is her fourth installment for 2014.
This weekend ended our 2014 preseason and marks the start of our conference regular season. We drove out to East Lansing, Michigan on Thursday, I’m not sure if it’s because we’ve been traveling so much these past three weeks, but the bus ride really seemed like a hop-skip-and a jump away. We popped in a couple movies, did a little homework and bam, we were there.
Our first game of the weekend we meet up with Conference USA’s Western Kentucky once again. We put up a fight against the Hilltoppers, but they were able to take us for a win. We went out for some lunch and came back into the gym completely prepared to take on the Northeast Conference powerhouse LIU-Brooklyn (Long Island University). We were able to take on the challenge of the Blackbirds and won the match in three. It wasn’t a matter of a thirty seconds of Susie getting on the bus after the big win before she grabbed the microphone and started playing songs so everyone could sing along. Freshman, Mykie Olsen, impressed the whole bus as she beautifully sang “Summertime” from the Disney Channel’s hit movie High School Musical (truly a fan favorite).
We didn’t play until 7 pm on Saturday so we had the whole day to kill. We all got to sleep in and made our way down to breakfast, did a little homework, maybe snuck a little napper-nap in, but then it was mall time. There was a pretty sweet outdoor mall about one minute from our hotel so we headed on over. We all got our shopping partners and made our way to basically all the stores. East Lansing must have known that 20 professional shoppers were coming to town cause the deals were all ready for us and we spent half the time of our dinner at Champs showing each other what we all bought.
We got back to the gym to watch LIU-Brooklyn beat Western Kentucky. Then we got prepared to take on the Spartans. We worked hard in entire match but fell short and the Spartans would come out with the W. This has been a great preseason and has really made us tough and focused to start conference this weekend. On that note, we are at home this weekend!! We take on the UIC Flames on Friday at 7 and Valparaiso Saturday at 4. Students get in for free so feel free to make your way on over Friday and Saturday night! Looking forward to seeing all of you there and to get the 2014 conference play started! Until next time…
“No team works without teamwork.” -Dwayne Wade
