My focus on volleyball is to: -Practice hard -Set goals for myself to reach -Always play my best -be a team player -strive to be a self motivator -improve every chance I get -give 110% -Always play to WIN! -Have a competitive attitude -and leave it all on the court #15 MB/OH ~State Champ 5A AHSAA 2009!
~Let me start off by saying how proud, honored, and thankful for being on the 2009 Faith Academy varsity volleyball team.
-We worked so so hard for this! This was a 100% team accoplishment, and wouldn't of been done any other way!
-I love all of you so so much!
*We relaxed, had confidence in ourselves, we ate right, studied our film, practiced hard, stayed focused, got done what we neede to get done, and new we were going to fight no matter what!!!...and gave thanks and praise to God!
The Newspaper read:
Five times Faith Academy had played Mobile rival St. Paul's coming into the Class 5A volleyball state championship on Thursday.
Five times defending class champion St. Paul's walked away the winner.
Not today.
In
only their second year of AHSAA play, the underdog Rams shocked the
Saints with a ferocious net game on the way to a 25-21, 27-29, 25-22,
25-12 victory.
"This time, they had the look of determination,
passion and confidence," said Faith coach Jessica Rapier, who also
guided the Rams to an AISA state title in 2007 "You could see it in
every one of their eyes."
After studying the previous matches -
"film, after film, after film, even during class, Rapier said," -- The
Rams (39-15) made changes to their attack.
We played our hearts out, never gave up, did our best, and came out on top!
~Thursday the paper read:
But fourth-ranked Faith Academy
crashed the party and set-up an all-Mobile final today at 10:30 a.m.
with a 25-20, 25-13, 12-25, 25-21 semifinal win over the third-ranked
Lions in the AHSAA Elite Eight Wednesday.
Mark Almond, Birmingham NewsFaith
Academy's Rebekah Reeves spikes the ball as Briarwood's Elizabeth
Reiser tries to defend Wednesday during a Class 5A semifinal match in
Pelham. Faith won to advance to play St. Paul's today.
"I think we played with more confidence at that point," said Rams
junior hitter Rebekah Reeves, who finished with 12 kills. "We told
ourselves to relax and we started playing with confidence."
"Our
goal is to knock the other teams out of their system from point one to
point 25," said Rams coach Jessica Rapier, whose 39-15 team will try to
stop the top-ranked Saints (39-12) from winning a fourth straight 5A
state title today.
St. Paul's topped No. 2 Hartselle 25-20, 25-13, 25-21 in the other semifinal.
Faith turned an 11-6 first-game deficit into a 2-0 game advantage by scoring 44 of the next 60 points.
Jamie Hall added 12 kills for Faith, while Jessica Hall had 11. Chelsea Cummings had 33 assists and Jessica Scarpa had 14 digs.
...This was the paper after advancing to the championship match...
*Tommorrow I will update my blog with 2009 STATE CHAMPS news paper add.
Faith Academy swept Carvey Washington in this years 2009 sub-state game.
We now advance No. 4 to state.
The newspapers read:
Faith Academy back to Elite Eight
No. 4-ranked Faith Academy will return to the 5A Elight Eight for the secound straight year after beating Carver-Montgomery 25-19, 25-13, 25-10. Rebekah Reeves had 12 kills and Chelsea Cummings 28 assists for the Rams (36-15), who made their first trip to the Elight Eight last year as a member of the AHSAA.
We are so excited! We play Wednesday in Birmingham in the morning...
*Success is but a result of taking action and hard work...*
The Faith Academy Lady Rams came out 2nd in the Area Tounament Saturday.
-Our first match we swept Gulf Shores High in three sets. -Then we took Eufala in three also, advancing us to the championship match against Saint Pauls (State Champians 5A). -We faught hard but didn't play our game and lost. I believe we lost our focuse in the 2nd game. We had them beet the first game but collapsed between the last few points and Saint Pauls took over.
~Both teams advanced to substate.
*Faith Academy holds substate this year as we are placed in the 2nd seat.
<We are readying ourselves to play Thursday, then our goal is to advance to state!>
-Thursday's game was AWESOME! We played Spanish Fort and won three sets in a row to win the match! Faith Academy Rams were on fire!!!
~Our goal for that game was to come out on top and to improve on our communication... And we did just that!
The Newspaper read:
NO. 4 FAITH ACADEMY defeated No. 9 Spanish Fort 25-21, 25-17, 25-19 in a match between ranked 5A teams. For the visiting Rams, Rebekah Reeves had 14 kills, Chelsey Cummings 21 assists and Jamie Hall 13 digs and 8 kills. Faith (29-11) starts the 5A Area 1 tournament against LeFlore at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Paul's.
~Tuesday (10/6/09) Faith comes out on top again with three straight wins in a row against Mobile Christian. ~Our team came out confident and had the aggressiveness we needed to improve our game that match. ~We ran new plays and became more familiar with different hits we've been working on. Now we are ready to play our match agaist Spanish Fort tommorrow @Spanish Fort. -Time: 5:30pm
Wednesday's Newspaper read: -- FAITH ACADEMY swept Mobile Christian 25-11, 25-12, 25-15. Rebekah Reeves had 10 kills and Jamie Hall 7 kills for the No. 4-ranked 5A Rams (28-11), who visit Spanish Fort at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
*Improvement is what I'm aiming for each game... If I can accomplish that each game then I'm headed on the right path!
Aug. 20/ Faith vs. McGill Toolen/ Home/ 5:30 Aug. 25/ Faith vs. LeFlore/ Away/ 5:30 Aug. 27/ Faith vs. Mobile Christian/ Home/ 5:30 Sep. 1/ Tri Match/ McGill/ 4:30/5:30 Sep. 3/ Faith vs. Cottage Hill/ Home/ 5:30 Sep. 8/ Faith vs. Spanish Fort/ Home/ 5:30 Sep. 10/ Faith vs. Tri Match/ Home/ 4:30/6:30 Sep. 15/ Faith vs. Citronelle/ Away/ 5:30 Sep. 17/ Faith vs. Leflore/ Home/ 5:30 Sep. 22/ Faith vs. Cottage Hill/ Away/ 5:30 Sep. 24/ Faith vs. St. Pauls/ Away/ 4:30 Sep. 29/ Faith vs. Tri Match/ Satsuma/ 5:30/6:30
