ASIAN INVASION

Now, I know it's physically impossible for a human being to fly without the use of a harness or propelling device of some sort, but Mike Yee comes pretty close. They had one of the more complicated rotation and setting systems for a game plan as simple as this: Set it to Mike (the guy holding the shirt). Front row, back row, it didn't matter. He could pound the ball. He almost sent a lineswoman into a respiratory attack with an errant hit which went right into her chest. Don't get me wrong, Kenny, Tim and the rest of the crew could pound with the best of them. But Mike is the best of them. The three matches between Deez and the Volley-Ballers were the best in the last five years of intramurals. Even armed with Steve, Minh, Amir and T (an all star for the womens team at Penn State), they couldn't hang with the new Asian crew. It didn't help that a couple of them are straight out of the Junior Olympics. These guys are good. And I wouldn't want to be doing lines when they're playing anymore.

 
Deez, Fall 2002 Mens Volleyball Champions

THE TEAM THAT WASN'T THERE

Well, at least they weren't at the beginning of the season. The managers meeting is primarily for three things. Forfeit money, team availability, and free agent pick up. Usually, I get a handful of free agents and more than enough teams to pick them up. This year, every team seemed to already have their quota of people on their roster and were happy with things the way they were. So I asked Jason Tice to do me a favor and take his mens team and combine them with all the free agents that didn't have a home and make a coed team. I even named it for him since all of his creative juices were spent coming up with "Volley-Ballers." And so Shank, Scramble, Pray was born. Well, I knew this wouldn't be the typical free agent team struggling to get people to show up and losing every game they played. But I didn't think they'd be able to get by Andy Dunmire's Ballistic team and dethrone Lumpia for the first ever free agent team champions. But Val should have seen it coming. He was on the first free agent team to ever make it to the final game when last year's Shortfield Soccer tournament saw FC Booya beat Psi Kiev in an overtime shootout. But enough about soccer. The key to this whole team was the two-girl setter rotation. It's smart because a girl would always touch the ball if everything worked the way it should, and it was effective because Tanya and Maj-Lis were good at it. And Maj-Lis was probably the best free agent pickup in the indoor soccer tournament too. Attention all team managers: If you see her (the girl making a muscle below) at a meeting for any sport as a free agent, it would be wise for you to pick her up. No matter how many people are on your team. And one more thing for you managers while I have your attention. The people in the picture below sporting the brand spankin new championship shirts are the people that you didn't want or need on your team. It's rare to find a diamond in the rough, but there was a whole team of them in this year's tourney.

 
Shank, Scramble, Pray: Fall 2002 Coed Volleyball Champions

• Mens Schedule
• Coed Schedule