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Post by TuesdayGone on Aug 30, 2021 17:29:12 GMT -5
Jordyn Byrd 2023 class, visited Wisconsin this weekend. She is down to her final 5 schools: Wisconsin, Purdue, Penn State, Texas, Florida
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Post by TuesdayGone on Aug 30, 2021 17:40:31 GMT -5
Ella Swindle visited Wisconsin this weekend Setter, class of 2023
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Post by robtearle on Aug 30, 2021 21:00:26 GMT -5
Speculation on the Minn thread that Rachel Kilkelly and Anna Wolf were not dressed Saturday night for the match vs TCU "due to COVID protocols". Ugh!
While hoping they're OK, does anybody know the locker room situation at the Field House? I know the Badger locker room is below 'court level' through doors to the west side of the court/stands, and the normal visitor locker room is through a door at the northeast corner (between the 'Dippin Dots' stand and a men's room that I use quite regularly :-) ), but what is the arrangement when there are multiple teams? Other rooms elsewhere? Somewhere under the south endzone stands of the stadium? A second/third room also through the same door to the regular visitor locker room?
Fingers crossed for all four teams...
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 30, 2021 21:07:18 GMT -5
That's too fast to be due to exposure in Madison, I'd think. Hope it's not true or that they caught it in time.
We'll be seeing it I'm afraid. It's inevitable at this point.
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Post by robtearle on Aug 30, 2021 21:09:49 GMT -5
That's too fast to be due to exposure in Madison, I'd think. Hope it's not true or that they caught it in time. We'll be seeing it I'm afraid. It's inevitable at this point. Not that they became infected in Madison; that they might have infected others while in the Field House, etc. Friday night. Players or staff of TCU. Baylor UW, or UW athletic dept people.
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 30, 2021 21:11:57 GMT -5
I never know what to make of those vids. I guess Wrobel's passing looks decent, and she hits heavy ball to the right spaces. Swindle sets a decent slide in that video, but also is a major attacker for that team apparently, given how often she goes over on two. Serving looks decent, I guess, though always hard to tell at that level. Byrd's vid is too damn short - although frankly they all are. I'd rather see complete match footage.
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 30, 2021 21:16:59 GMT -5
That's too fast to be due to exposure in Madison, I'd think. Hope it's not true or that they caught it in time. We'll be seeing it I'm afraid. It's inevitable at this point. Not that they became infected in Madison; that they might have infected others while in the Field House, etc. Friday night. Players or staff of TCU. Baylor UW, or UW athletic dept people. Yep. Hoping it's not true, but there remains the hope that testing caught the infection before they were really infectious. If they had been infected in Madison, well, there is no telling where it would have come from and how many were exposed. The question for the badgers becomes, which dressing room did the gophers use? On the upside, most of the badgers front line have had it AND been vaccinated by now. They should have some serious immuno protection.
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Post by robtearle on Aug 30, 2021 21:27:27 GMT -5
The question for the badgers becomes, which dressing room did the gophers use? That's why I was wondering about locker rooms for 'multiple team' weekends. I'm fairly sure I saw both TCU and Baylor people coming and going from that regular visitor locker room door, though not sure if it was the same night. That's what got me wondering about more than one room through that same door. Best case might be that UW had their room, the Big 12 was through that regular visitors' door, and Minn was off in some other room somewhere else. I know the visitor locker room for football is under the south end zone stands; Maybe the Gophers were in there. Come out of that locker room, turn right and head for the football field; turn left and head into the Field House.
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Post by TuesdayGone on Aug 30, 2021 22:37:43 GMT -5
Big Fan of these cinematic videos!
Hope they keep doing them!
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 31, 2021 0:17:07 GMT -5
That's way cool. A lot of work went into that.
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Post by savannahbadger on Aug 31, 2021 1:07:21 GMT -5
I won’t even begin to speculate if players will decide to use another year of COVID eligibility, but transfers, de-commitments, and late commitments will be our friends next season (I get that we’re barely into this season). Hart is definitely not coming back next year. An article in the local paper said she’s ready to move on along with Rettke, Hilley, etc., so that’s a given that she won’t be around for 2022.
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Post by badgerbreath on Aug 31, 2021 1:34:12 GMT -5
OK. I just watched the last two sets of the Baylor match.
Was interested to see what went wrong in the 3rd. Demps came in, but that didn't seem to be a big factor, unless Hilley was just a little hesitant to set her. The real problem was lots of problems - which suggests relaxation. The block got all loosey goosey with balls rolling down the front through the crease and off the edges. Not sure there was one good block that set. The passing got a little wonky. Plus, Baylor really started to play some hardnosed ball on D and attack. I like the grittiness of that team.
Sheff must have challenged them to correct the lack of aggression the next set because all that was gone in the 4th. Passing came back and Dana basically took control off some great off Boyers serve. I think she had 4 BAs and 4 kills that set, and some of the kills were things of beauty. Glad to see they could find a way to turn it back on again. That's something that has gotten better, but worried that things started to go a bit slack so easily.
Maybe it's because they were actually playing a good team that knew how to take advantage. Pressley had a really good all round match. Ironically maybe the best one I've seen her have against the badgers. She was a big reason they won the 3rd, but the production from the left pin just wasn't there the rest of the time (partly due to the setting) and the middles were a complete non-entity. Stafford is missed.
I have to say Orzol is in there for good at L2, but I think there may be a battle at the other left pin between Demps and Loberg by the end of the year.
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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 31, 2021 8:18:30 GMT -5
Not that they became infected in Madison; that they might have infected others while in the Field House, etc. Friday night. Players or staff of TCU. Baylor UW, or UW athletic dept people. Yep. Hoping it's not true, but there remains the hope that testing caught the infection before they were really infectious. If they had been infected in Madison, well, there is no telling where it would have come from and how many were exposed. The question for the badgers becomes, which dressing room did the gophers use? On the upside, most of the badgers front line have had it AND been vaccinated by now. They should have some serious immuno protection. Does anyone know what the Gophers' vaccination situation is? Sheff said everyone affiliated with the Badgers VB program is vaccinated, but I'm not sure how common that is across the conference. The good news about breakthrough infections in vaccinated people is that they are symptomatic and contagious for only about 5-6 days, much less than the 3+ weeks that non-vaccinated people are affected.
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Post by jiml on Aug 31, 2021 10:39:16 GMT -5
the [Baylor] middles were a complete non-entity. Yeah, I was surprised to see Van der Mark hitting negative; she was a major part of Baylor's victory over Minnesota. WI was serving tougher than MN and blocking better is probably why.
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Post by rainbowbadger on Aug 31, 2021 10:39:56 GMT -5
the [Baylor] middles were a complete non-entity. Yeah, I was surprised to see Van der Mark hitting negative; she was a major part of Baylor's victory over Minnesota. WI was serving tougher than MN and blocking better is probably why. She got pulled near the end. Anybody figure out what was up with that?
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