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 4-23-06
Congratulations to the
St.
Louis Elite 13s, who earned their first medal of the year by winning
the Silver Division of the Meramec Magic Tournament on Saturday.
Congratulations are also in order for the
St. Louis Elite 12s
as they won the Bronze Division of the Lone Star Qualifier this weekend.
The St. Louis Elite 15s
won the CYC Spring Volley on Sunday to capture their 3rd tournament of
the year. Pictures will be posted as they are recieved. |
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4-18-06
Good luck to the
St. Louis Elite 16
and St. Louis Elite 12s
as they travel to Dallas, TX for the Lonestar Qualifier this weekend.
The initial schedule for this weekend is located here:
Click
here for tournament schedule! Real time results will be
located here: Tournament
Results Good luck ladies!
The St. Louis Elite 13s play at Meramac Community College on Saturday and the St. Louis Elite 15s will be in action on Sunday afternoon at Forest Park CC, while the Elite 14s have the weekend off after returning from the Northern Lights Qualifier last weekend and the Elite 18s tend to other important things, like Prom! |
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4-18-06
Congratulations to St. Louis Elite 16
for their victory in the Overland Classic this past weekend.
Standing (Left to Right): Ana Mercado, Lis Martin, Beth Shelly, Lauren Potzman, Hannah Wallis, Shelli Byrkit Kneeling (Left to Right): Bubba Martz, Erin Coyne, Maggie Bowman Front: Katelyn Palazzolo, |
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Congrats
to the St. Louis Elite 15s
, who made it two weeks in a row with another championship at the
Overland Classic on 2/4/06! A HUGE THANK YOU to Abbie O'Mara
and Alyssa Drevenak, two of our 13s who stepped up and joined in the
win, due to some injuries and other commitments. |
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Thank
you for making our Trivia night such a great success. A special thanks
to all who worked, as well as the committee worked so hard on two weeks
notice to accomplish something amazing! |
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 1-9-06 Congrats
to Laura Passmore, of Elite 181, who commited to Jefferson College
recently! Way to go, Laura! |
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GOOD LUCK, LADIES! |
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Please note: Coaches noted by "*" will be Co-Head Coaches Specialty Coaches (for club-wide skill sessions) Passing/Defense Beth Degreeff Hitting/Blocking Colleen Hunter Setting Terri Rauhut Also, Kevin Coyne will serve as a Club Coordinator for G12-14. Matt Ryan will serve as assistant club director/webmaster. |
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St.
Louis Elite is a girls volleyball club that strives to bring out the
best in our young athletes, while having fun doing it. For more
in-depth information on the club philosophy, click
here. We fielded teams in the G14, G15, G16,
& G17 levels of the
Gateway Region
of
USA Volleyball for the 2005 season. Check out our
Message Board!. |
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Congratulations
to all of our players that made their High School teams. Please
send us your schedules, so we can come watch you play!
Check our
Teams
page for more info and rosters for all of
our teams. |
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A belated congratulations to Former Elite Coach Laura Risley Mudd, who gave birth to Ethan Glenn Mudd on 6/3/05. Baby and mom are doing well!
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A belated congratulations to Elite Alum Katie Duchek, who, as a junior at Xavier University, was named to the 2004 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American Third Team(Release). |
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Congratulations to Elite Coach (and Alum) Colleen Winter, who was named Washington University Female Senior Athlete of the Year this past week. More info is located here. Great job, Colleen, as usual! Winter ran all of our club-wide defense and passing practices this year |
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Mr. Martz has been named dedicated dad of the year, after going above and beyond the call of duty at the Northern Lights Qualifier. Mr. Martz, who, according to his daughter, is usually in bed by 9 PM, was scheduled to fly to Minnesota with 2 players of the 7 member Elite G15 squad on Thursday night, when their flight was cancelled due to electrical problems. The earliest flight the next morning would have caused the 15s to forfeit at least a game in their morning pool. This was not acceptable to Mr. Martz, who decided to fly to Chicago with the girls, and then DRIVE ALL NIGHT to get to Minnesota in time! It paid off with a WIN over the 15th seeded team in the tournament! Mr. Martz then stayed and cheered the team on throughout the ENTIRE POOL!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION, MR. MARTZ!!! |
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Pictures
from Northern Lights for the 14s Added. |
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DEFENSIVE EFFORT AWARD GOES TO OLIVIA YARBROUGH
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4/9/05--Pictures
from Big South added for
16s and
17s... |
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4/3/05--FINALLY,
AN UPDATE: Pics of the
15s
added (Perryville and MEQ). |
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2/19/05-Hey,
16s, check out the message board...there is a message from a team member
to the rest of the team....
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2/18/05-Congratulations
to the 14s on their win in the tournament at North Tech HS this past
weekend(2/12/05). They will be traveling to Chicago for the Elite
Challenge this weekend.
Schedule and
Directions |
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The 16s will return to action 3/6 at Edwardsville. |
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The
15s opened their season with a 5th place finish at the Rockwood Rumble
16s tournament last Sunday(1/16), 5th place in the winterblast
tournament (St. Charles), and a win at the Extreme Heat-16 at
McKendree(2/6). They will be off for a couple of weeks to regroup,
and are gearing up for the Seeding Tournament on 2/20 at the Rockwood
Annex. |
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2/7/05-
Congratulations to Elite G15 for their Win in the Extreme Heat
Tournament-16s at McKendree College(2/7) this past weekend. Now that you
have raised the bar of expectations, keep up the hard work! They
will return to action 2/20/05 in a seeding tournament at the Rockwood
Annex. |
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The
14s open their season Feb. 6 at Forest Park CC with a 3rd Place Finish.
Congratulations, ladies!
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St.
Louis Elite will be practicing at the
College School of Webster Groves,
The
Priory, and
Webster Groves CC
for the start of 2004-05... |
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Congratulations to Elite Coach Colleen Winter, who was named the Chesterfield Journal Player of the week last week. Click here for the release..
Congratulations to Elite alum Sutten Lasater (SLU), who made the 2004 Conference USA All-Freshman team! Click here for more info!
Congratulations to Elite alum and current coach Colleen Winter (Washington University-St. Louis), who has been named an AVCA Division III First Team All-American for a second consecutive year! Colleen was part of the
Congratulations to Elite Alum Lindsey Noll (Missouri) who earned first team All-Academic Team in the Big 12 Conference. More info here.
Congratulations to former Elite coach Colleen Hunter (SLU), who was named to the Conference USA All-Decade team. Click here for more info!
St. Louis Elite is proud to announce the addition of Colleen Winter, Terri Rauhut, Kristelle Rodriguez, and Erin McClanahan to the coaching staff for the 2004-2005 season. More info and bios will follow. They join Cindy McPeak as newcomers to a staff that includes Pete Wung, Laura Risley-Mudd, Kevin Coyne and Matt Ryan. This is a homecoming for both McPeak and Winter, as both played for Elite in its inaugural season. Check out our teams pages to find out what age groups our coaching will be with this year.
Congrats to Elite Alum Lindsey Noll (Missouri) who was named Lathrup & Gage's student athlete of the week for Sept. 20-25. Noll, an education major, has better than a 3.0 grade-point average, is averaging 1.3 Kills/Game and contributes significantly to her surrounding community through community service. For more info, click here.
Current Elite Coach and Elite Alum Colleen Winter became the career dig leader at Washington University-St. Louis this weekend. She moved into the lead against Juniata College with a 10 dig performance. Congratulations, Colleen!!!
Congrats to Elite Alum Christina Archibald, who became Indiana University's all time kill leader with a 26 kill performance against Kent State on Sept. 18. More information is located here.
Congrats to Elite Alum Tiara Gilkey (Pattonville), who is leading the University of Memphis volleyball team in scoring for the second consecutive season. Her uncle is former Cardinals player Bernard Gilkey. A senior outside hitter, Gilkey leads the Tigers (18-4) in kills (317) and digs (261). This season, she has twice been named Conference USA volleyball player of the week.
St. Louis Elite would like to announce the addition of Cindy McPeak to the coaching staff for the 2004-2005 season. As a senior co-captain in 2003, McPeak led the Washington University-St. Louis Bears to the NCAA DIII championship title. She also is the first former Elite player to rejoin Elite as a coach, after finishing her collegiate career. We look forward to all Cindy's contributions!
The 2004 Season is complete for Elite. Our 18s have completed their final juniors season at the Gateway Regional tournament, and we wish them best of luck with their college experience. Our 18s are planning on playing at the following colleges:
| PLAYER | COLLEGE | HIGH SCHOOL |
| Carly Bayes | Southern Mississippi | Notre Dame |
| Jessica Bollinger | Mineral Area College | Rockwood Summit |
| Kaitlin Deutsch | Southern Mississippi | Mehlville |
| Morgan Johnson | Southern Mississippi | Benton |
| Erin Klaus | Missouri Southern | Triad |
| Sutton Lasater | Saint Louis U | Marquette |
| Denise Sanford | Central Missouri State U | Notre Dame |
| Julia Stortz | Washington Univ | Lafayette |
Congratulations to our 14s that made their high school team for the first time this fall.
| PLAYER | HIGH SCHOOL | TEAM |
| Caitie Carter | St. Joseph's Academy | Freshman |
| Erin Coyne | Nerinx Hall | Junior Varsity |
| Maggie Elking | Ursuline Academy | Junior Varsity |
| Riley Krus | Cor Jesu Academy | Junior Varsity |
| Michelle Martz | Nerinx Hall | Freshman |
| Noelle Rowles | Villa Duchense | Varsity |
St. Louis Elite would like to thank Mr. Indo Haruya from the Pioneer Red Wings of the Japanese Professional Volleyball League for teaching us SO much in a weekend seminar. We would also like to thank Jim Kron of Midwest Select, Corey Arbini of TSL, Josh Lauer of CYC and Todd & Tracy Plagemann of SWIL for graciously opening their practices up for Indo to teach at. See some of the pictures from Indo's practice here (the rest of the pictures will be up when Pete gets his film developed!)
Congrats to Coach Katie Dowden of our 16s, who will be taking a high school coaching (volleyball and swimming) and teaching job in Kearney, MO. We wish you well, and we'll miss you every step of the way!
Congrats to Coach Matt Ryan of our 16s, who will be the assistant coach at Webster University for the 2004 season
Congrats to former player Kim Fletcher (Nerinx Hall, Notre Dame, Elite 2000) who has accepted a 27 month Peace Corp assignment to the Gambia. Way to go, FLETCH!
Congratulations to Lindsey Noll on completing a very successful tour of Europe this summer with Bring It USA. She proved her ability to compete against international competition.
We also want to send our congratulations to club co-founder and former coach Santiago Restrepo, who was recently named head coach of Oklahoma University (Release). We're sure he will have a huge impact on that Big 12 program and we wish him well. .
STL
ELITE VBC
BELATED
CONGRATULATIONS
Olivia
Yarbrough has been awarded the Elite G15 Defensive Effort Award, for a
play at the Northern Lights Qualifier this past weekend.
Olivia(#9) dove into a chair chasing a ball on match point of the 15s
first place tie break game vs. Sky High. She broke her nose and
required 2 stitches. The picture at left shows her and her
teammates who accompanied her to the hospital (From left, Maggie Elking,
Beth Shelly, Olivia, and Nina Sykora).