Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Hibbing Dynasty; Lake Superior All Conference, All Star Games

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SECTION RESULTS
Burnsville, Eagan, Rosemount and Simley all had sweep wins to open 3AAA action.

SECTION PREVIEWS
7AA Hibbing is the heavy favorite. From the Duluth News Tribune.

ALL CONFERENCE
Already All Conference teams have been released. The first-----the Lake Superior All Conference team. From the Superior Telegram.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Jenna Flynn of Sartell was named Central Lakes offensive player of the week. Megan Rakow of Little Falls was defensive player of the week in the CL conference. From the St. Cloud Times.

LATE REPORTS
Shakopee dropped Farmington last week. Ashley Wittman had 29 kills in the match. From the Farmington Independent.

Ashby beat Rothsay; Parkers Prairie topped Hancock; Brandon-Evansville knocked off Underwood; from the Alexandria Echo Press.

ALL STAR GAMES
The inaugural Tri-State All Star Volleyball Games will be held on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at the Performance Court on the campus of the Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester, Minnesota:http://www.rctc.edu/athletics/html/fieldhouse/virtual_tour/3.htm

Team Wisconsin, Team Iowa and Team Minnesota will be formed to compete among the elite of the northern central part of the country.

Nominations are being sought for Minnesota's elite senior volleyball players to be considered for Team Minnesota. Nominate your own athlete and/or your opposing athletes. Requirement: Elite senior volleyball players will only be considered.

Also nominate a Minnesota head coach to serve as Team Minnesota's head coach at the Tri-State All Star Volleyball Games.

Send nominations by this Friday noon, October 24th, to ninham1asap@charter.net (the digit after 'ninham' is the number one and not the letter 'l') and dninham@clbs.k12.mn.us to assure the nomination will be accepted; a reply of your nomination will be emailed to you upon receipt of the nomination; if you don't receive a reply within 24 hours of your nomination, call Dan Ninham at 218-368-6430.

Send the following criteria in the order listed for all star athlete nominations: 1. name of athlete, 2. athlete's high school, 3. athlete's position, 4. athlete's height, 5. athlete's head varsity coach, 6. athlete's email address, 7. athlete's mailing address, 8. athlete's head varsity coach's name, 9. athlete's head varsity coach's email address, 10. athlete's head varsity coach's home/work/cell phone number/s, and 11. nominator's name, email address, and phone number/s. All demographic information will be confidential and not given out to anyone.

Send the following criteria in the order listed for all star coach nominations: 1. name of head coach, 2. coach's high school

The MN, WI and IA state activities associations are aware of this event and have noted the event structure is in compliance with their rules and bylaws.

Information: Event Directors - Dan and Susan Ninham, Dan: 218-368-6430 or email addresses listed above

Reminder: The deadline for nominations for the South Central and North Central Volleyball All Star Games is noon on Wednesday, October 22nd. We currently have over 50 nominee's in each region.

South Central Volleyball All Star Game Final Call
Deadline for Nominations: October 22nd at noon
Saturday, November 15th
2nd Annual South Central VB All Star Game
Bloomington Kennedy High School

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