USA Baseball's inaugural Women's Development Camp takes place this weekend at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary.
Details for that camp and camps in other sports, plus team tryouts, league registration, instruction and tournaments can be found in the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar below, an expanded version of the calendar that appears each Tuesday in the print edition Sports section.
The Southern Zone Age Group Swimming Championships, which start today at the Triangle Aquatic Center in Cary, are just one of the many recreational sports events you'll find listed below in the expanded version of the Play! recreational sports calendar.
Girls ages 12 and younger who love volleyball are invited to attend informational and training sessions from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. on July 26 and Aug. 2 at West Johnston High School. The free clinics are organized by the West Johnston coaches and players. For more info, contact Jerry Hogan at westvolleyball@hotmail.com.
Madison Bugg, one of the top high school volleyball setters in the country, has committed to Stanford.
The Triangle Volleyball Club will send seven teams to Atlanta this summer to compete in the USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championships.
The first of the Morrisville-based club’s teams to qualify was Triangle 18 Black, which qualified in the 18 Open division by finishing third at the Big South National Qualifier in early April.
The remaining six bids were earned at Carolina Region bid tournaments held in Greensboro on April 30.
Volleyball no longer is just an indoor, hard-court game in the Triangle. The players have taken the game to the sand.
Beach volleyball has developed a strong following, and this past weekend nearly 200 players on 88 teams from across North Carolina and as far away as Georgia took to the sand courts at Raleigh's Jaycee Park and North Cary Park.
RALEIGH – A simple change led to Broughton’s volleyball team playing better Thursday night against Enloe. The Caps knew they could play well on their feet, but their confidence improved each time they dove for the ball.
The Caps defeated the Eagles with effort, and it showed in their 25-19, 25-23, 25-10 win in the first round of the Cap Eight conference tournament.
Diving was one of the reasons the Caps were able to win points after long rallies. With the Eagles sending the ball to the back of court instead of going for kills at the net, the Caps needed their back-row players to respond. And although Enloe’s strategy worked at times, the Caps (14-12, 7-6 Cap Eight 4-A) stay aggressive in not letting the ball drop in front of them.
RALEIGH After jumping out to a two-set lead over Leesville Road on Thursday night in the first round of the Cap 8 volleyball tournament, Millbrook found itself a bit frustrated.
The Wildcats dropped the third and fourth sets of the match as the Pride evened things up at 2-2.
Fortunately for Millbrook, the Wildcats regained their intensity to win the decisive fifth set 15-9 to win the match 25-15, 25-21, 23-25, 20-25, 15-9 against Leesville Road and advance to next week’s semifinal match.
WAKE FOREST–Wakefield volleyball coach Cynthia Terrell kept looking toward her bench during the Wolverines’ match against rival Wake Forest-Rolesville. Terrell kept substituting players after every few plays, something she didn’t do a lot of last year against the Cougars.
After one rally, Cally Pfeiffer entered the match. Then, a few plays later, Leigh Lamonaca stepped on the court. No matter who played for Terrell, the Wolverines did more than enough to stay undefeated with a 25-16, 25-21, 18-25, 25-20 victory over the Cougars on Monday night.
