End of the JO Tournament; All Tournament Teams

#1 posting 7.9.2007
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END OF THE TOURNAMENT/ALL TOURNAMENT
Here are the all tournament teams for the 18s open JO volleyball tournament. Brook Dieter and Lauren Gibbemeyer made the list for Northern Lights. In the game I saw Juliane Piggott and Geena Urango of TCA Third Degree also made the list. The photos also show the top three teams for all divisions. Northern Lights finished 3rd for the open division.
In the 17s open the All tournament team includes Kelsey Brandl and Lauren Wagner from M1. M1 finished 3rd in the open division.
The 16 American all Tournament team included M1s Kara Pioske, Rebekah Saugen and Val Smith; and MN Select's Tia Gaffen and Katherine Harms. M1 finished 2nd in this tournament; MN Select 3rd. You will need to scroll past the open and national levels.
The 15 Open all tournament team had Northern Lights' Tori Dixon and Ashley Wittman. Northern Lights finished 3rd.

PUBLICITY
Why wasn't this event covered better by the mainstream media? I know channel 4 and 11 had stories on the event, but it was more of "this is the event" updates were not really there.
The StarTribune missed out on an opportunity to sell more newspapers during the event. There was nothing except a paragraph about Northern Lights 18s and then today about the 17 results. Why is this? The StarTribune has in the past slathered the Schwans Soccer tournament with stories and results.
is it because of cost? (I think this is close to the mark)
is it because of the event not providing information? (which I doubt)
is it because they don't care?
They had an opportunity to sell to a wider audience. Why would a family buy the paper with not one drop of ink on results? Well they wouldn't. When I was there on Thursday and taking time to eat the only papers I found on the tables were USA Today (they too didn't have anything on the tournament). They missed out on a golden opportunity.

The tournament was a great event. It is too bad not enough people (outside the volleyball world) knew what kind of impact/event it really was.

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