We sent a Developmental Team for the first time to a tournament, this one was Prez Day Quals. Motion was able to send a Developmental Team due to the automatic bid they gained this year to Prez Day Invite. Motion brought along all of their first and second year players and a few others who wanted to join in on the fun!
It was a crazy weekend filled with huge improvement seen in EVERY player out on the field. The current Motion captains even let some of their 2nd years take charge (at least partially).
Our weekend started out with one member of our team throwing up the night before and a first game bye. Motion played 4 games and went 2-2 on Saturday with loses against Santa Clara and Williams and wins against Cal B and USC B. Some of our rookies stepped up for the first time and had the opportunity to handle, and some even got the privilege to handle in a zone.
Sunday Motion woke up with one more fallen solider as our captain Liz threw up during the night. (Our team contracted what we believe in the stomach flu that is going around and has, as of today, taken 8). Once we got to the field Motion put up a good fight against Chico in their last game of pool play but lost and ended up 4th in Pool B.
We ended up in the constellation bracket playing for 5th/6th place with our first game against UCLA B. With one of the better games of the weekend Motion came up with a win on universe point to defeat UCLA B! Motion was ecstatic and carried that energy into another hard fought loss against Chico.
Overall Motion improved tremendously (especially our first year players)! We only lost to A Teams therefore beating all of the B Teams we played. And had a great weekend full of laughs, layouts, crazy catches, learning experiences, and pictures.
