Senior Diary: Danielle Kelton pleased with the volleyball team's progress

This past weekend was a great weekend. I feel like we are finally getting back on track. I feel like I am playing to my potential after the fist part of the season, I felt like I really struggled. But, with the help of my coaches and my teammates I have got my confidence back and been able to play my game and enjoy my last volleyball season.

I think that we have found our rotation that works best for all of us. We are communicating and working together better as the season has gone along. We have changed our practices and really feel like they are preparing us for game situations. The coaches are always good at coming up with new exciting drills that get our feet going.
The next 2 weeks are going to be very exciting because we have 7 home games in a row. Then, Homecoming is in 2 weekends, that is always an exciting time at McMurry.

-- Danielle Kelton

Senior Diary: Waller reflects on football's first win in 2009

Our first victory of the year was a sweet one. It was a well deserved win and we finally came together as a whole team and played for 60 minutes. Offense, defense and special teams all played hard to pull this victory together. Long drives on offense and scoring when we got the ball is something we are going to have to do every game from here on out. Taste of victory is sweet but we are going to move on and get ready to play HPU.

-- Seth Waller

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Senior Diary: Danielle Kelton looks at the ups and downs of last week's performance

Every year I have been at McMurry there is a time in our season were we struggle. I don’t know if that is just how things go or what, but it always happens. The past couple of weeks we have been really struggling as a team to work together and finish a game. This past week we played a tough game against Hardin-Simmons. We lost in three, and at this point I think everyone was just ready to scream. We had an opportunity for everyone to get some things off their chests; we had to do something before our first home game of the season. By doing this I think it was in a way a stress reliever for everyone, for me I know it was. Thursday we had a really tough but awesome practice, everyone was back to normal and ready to play. We won both of our games in front of our home crowd against Sul Ross and Schreiner in three sets.

I really think the true test will be this weekend at the ASC crossover tournament in Tyler. We play UTD, UT Tyler, and Letourneau, they have always been tough competition in the past. We have this whole week to practice we don’t have any weak games so this will allow us to continue to work on the things we need to work on like, playing together and finishing a game. I know we are all ready to get on a winning streak.

Danielle Kelton

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McMurry and Hardin-Simmons square off in the cross-town showdown in volleyball tonight. The first match will be on the north side of town at HSU's Mabee Complex. The Cowgirls enter with a 5-4 record and a 2-1 mark in the ASC West while McMurry is 4-6 with a 1-2 record in the west. Read the game preview here ...

IN THE NEWS

• In case you missed it, Carla Lewis won her third-straight ASC Runner of the Week award and men's runner Ken Wheeler won the award on the men's side helping McMurry sweep the award two weeks straight. The cross country teams were in Joplin, Mo. at the Missouri Southern Stampede. Below is a video of the highglights of the meet, thanks to head coach David Chandler for the footage. Thanks to Thomas Beckham for putting the editing touches on it.



In other news, the tennis teams hosted a non-traditional season tournament called the ASC Singles / Doubles Tournament. The tennis teams' regular season is in the spring, but the teams are allowed tournaments in the fall. In this particular tournament, seedings for the ITA Regionals are selected based upon the success of individual singles' performance and doubles performance. McMurry's Will Davis and Bryan Rainwater won the top flight of the doubles tournament and will go on to Dallas as the No. 2 seed in the ITA Regional Tournament in Dallas this weekend.

Below is a YouTube Video of interviews with head tennis coach Mark Hathorn along with comments from Davis and Rainwater.



I was out Monday sick, but I'll try to catch up and give you the Monday football press conference featuring Hal Mumme and running back Keenan Alford.

Also, more senior blogs coming ...
If you're in town support the McM Volleyball team against HSU at 7 p.m. on the campus of HSU.

Stay tuned ...
--KR