Every once in a while, this becomes a don’t-do-today-what-you-can-put-off-for-a-long-time job.
I was in Chicago the first week of July for USA Volleyball Girls Junior Nationals and the next week wrote this notebook:
USAV Nationals notes: LSU football, IUPUI, recruiting Egypt and more
And there was every intention of following up the next week with more. Well, here you go, better late than never. Most of these items are not about club volleyball, more about NCAA teams as we took time to visit with a ton of coaches.
But to catch up, if you missed it, here is John Tawa’s season-ending girls club volleyball Dots:
Tawa’s Girls Club Volleyball Dots: SCVC pulls stunner; Storm wins second in three years
In the meantime, we’ve got the NBA/volleyball angle, a couple of updates, and what it’s like to recruit while in China.
Volleyball Nuggets
In that last notebook, we started with all the LSU football tie-ins to top-level girls club volleyball. In this one, we’ll start with the Denver Nuggets.
Yes, the NBA champions loomed large inside the McCormick Place convention center in the form of head coach Mike Malone. He was watching his daughter, Bridget, play for her Colorado Juniors team that won 16s Open..
“You know, it’s not really fun,”…