2 Time Gold Medalists

The bruises are finally healing. This weekend Jon and I participated in the Metro Games Volleyball tournament. Now, you may ask, from what professional volleyball background do the two of you come from? Well, the answer to that is . . . besides dinking around, none. We decided to sign up for the Metro Games because all of the sports that we were always told that we weren't good enough, strong enough, fast enough, or tall enough for, we finally now get to play.

As we watched the other teams high-five way past our reach and perform spike drills, we stood up to the plate (or rather court) and guess what . . . we actually, lost and then, we lost again. With the third times a charm luck on our side we played the third team and lost again. Then, some sort of miracle happened. I gave Jon a pep talk on the side and our team came up with an immaculate strategy, do whatever it takes to hit the ball over the net. We followed that strategy and won our next three games which placed us in the fourth seed going into the single elimination tournament.

With knees bloodied and arms bruised, our team played until we were elimated by the #1 seed. We then fell to the "non-winners bracket" and hit, bump, and . . . okay, so we never actually spiked the ball, but we managed to squeak out a victory to win the bronze medal!! It looks really nice next to the tennis bronze medals that Jon and I won in the Metro Games last year. Misty May and Karrie Walsh, watch out, we're coming for you next!