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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 17, 2019 3:03:28 GMT -5
The Olympic Year is HERE! Let's start things off by discussing the 2020 VNL rosters by position.
For the purpose of clarity please note the following:
1. The following Outside Hitters are listed on the USWNT roster homepage and thus MUST be considered in the above poll: Robinson, Bartsch-Hackley, Larson, Hill, Foecke-Ritcher, Courtney, Kingdon-Rishel, Plummer, Jones-Perry, K. Rolfzen, Wilhite-Parsons and Lee.
2. The remaining names listed are some of the top players currently playing professionally over seas, have already played some with the national team, or are the top talent in the NCAA that are at least juniors or seniors during this current year: Agost, Mitchem, Wander-Weide, Pressley, Bajema, Lanier, D. Drews, Edmond, White
* = Please if you feel the need to select another not listed player please do so accompanied by an explanation. I would ask that for clarity's sake that you all refrain from tossing in players just because they play for your favorite school or just because you "like" them. That doesn't serve the purpose of this thread at all.
Please vote for SEVEN to EIGHT players and post why you choose who you did.
Thanks friends!
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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 17, 2019 3:36:25 GMT -5
I personally would like to see Foecke, Plummer, Pressley and Courtney play the first three weeks in Brazil, Serbia and Germany and save Larson, Hill, Robinson and MBH for the finals or at least until the home leg in week 4. This way Courtney is there to help stabilize passing and can be used as a Libero if needed. Karch can then bring any combo of the three actual liberos (JWO, Lake, Hentz, White) from the 25-player roster and shuffle them around as Defensive specialists when Courtney is the Libero.
While having Foecke, Plummer and Pressley would be a shaky passing situation...that is the point. We shall see who rises to the occasion.
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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 17, 2019 3:53:58 GMT -5
QUICK UPDATE!
Please vote based on which players you would choose for the roster! I really need to edit the poll question but that requires deleting the poll and retyping all of those names.....which I don't wanna do.
Also please cast ALL of your allotted votes!
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Post by sunsuphornsup on Dec 17, 2019 5:42:45 GMT -5
I think Pressley is only a Junior.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Dec 17, 2019 7:24:53 GMT -5
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Post by coloradokidd on Dec 17, 2019 8:24:06 GMT -5
Add VNL to your thread titles!  2020 USWNT VNL Outside Hitter Roster Predictions! |
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Post by werka on Dec 17, 2019 10:58:21 GMT -5
I want to see Pressley and Plummer at VNL's.
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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 17, 2019 12:13:54 GMT -5
I think Pressley is only a Junior. I know. Rettke was only a sophomore technically when she played this past summer. Pressley will be a senior next year. It's possible she will train with the Senior NT and not just the collegiate NT. |
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Post by azvb on Dec 17, 2019 12:28:33 GMT -5
Pressley is a junior?  ? How did I not know that. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2019 12:34:10 GMT -5
Would like to see Pressley, Plummer and Lanier. Of those, I would assume Plummer is the mos tlikely. I don't think we would see all of them in VNLs, though. But, I am hopeful. While I don't think this is the year for youth, I would still like to see any of the younger ones to get some action in the early weeks of the VNLs. But, this is a selfish thing rather than my expecting them to earn it. I just want to see Plummer, Pressley and Lanier playing in higher level international competition instead of Lee, Wilhite-Parsons, and Kingdon-Rishel.
Having a few youth would allow you to manage the work load of your prospective Olympians, especially Larson, so they are in peak physical condition for Tokyo. I'd give Robinson some time off as well. She seemed to play more than anyone else in the VNLs last season. But, I would get Kim Hill more actively involved right out of the gate than she was last summer.
So, for my 8 I would go with the likely Olympians: Larson, Robinson, MBH and Hill. I would then add some youth in Plummer, Pressley, Foecke and Lanier. Mix and match early in the VNLs. I think a roster of Hill, Foecke, Plummer and Robinson and another of Larson, MBH, Pressley and Lanier would be a good way to mix and match.
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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 17, 2019 13:53:36 GMT -5
Add VNL to your thread titles! 2020 USWNT VNL Outside Hitter Roster Predictions! Thanks! I did for all the other threads too. |
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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 18, 2019 0:58:18 GMT -5
Is it wrong that I look at the list of young players at this position and am more excited for next quad than this one?
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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 21, 2019 1:50:44 GMT -5
Now that Pressley is NPOY.....let's see her make her International debut KARCH!
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Post by werka on Dec 21, 2019 4:04:44 GMT -5
I saw an IG story with karch talking to the AA's. I wonder what he told them.
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Post by ToddyJ on Dec 21, 2019 14:38:17 GMT -5
I saw an IG story with karch talking to the AA's. I wonder what he told them. Don’t be a fool stay in school?! Lol |
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? How did I not know that.