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NCCAA National Volleyball i&mm

Tournament: Division II . . . Coach Vickie

Grooms summed it up when she said, "The

highlight of the season was how we finished

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down to the third game of tables, scoring 10 unan­

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Cougars had won the first ered, not by one of the all- xy.S'- /A

two games of the match af­ Americans, but by sopho­ ■ • v

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to reach the championship. specialist Tricia Moore. She •Mv'

Suddenly the momentum was playing front row for

shifted and they found junior Jen Wilkerson, who

themselves down 11-0 in had run out of substitutions. * • /r;Tv. TV

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the third game. "But we As the ball touched the

didn’t let our mistakes de­ floor, the bench erupted. Coach Vickie

Grooms gives the
feat us. We never gave up; Team members grabbed

team a pep talk dur­

by taking one point at a Tricia and hoisted her to ing a time out. Se­

time, we slowly came back," their shoulders. What a nior Becky Arnholt

said, "Coach's in­
Grooms explained. Mara­ way to end the match and

tensity and love for

natha held the team at 14-6 the national championship! the game motivated

us to win the Na­

tional tournament."