First of the year!

Hello Readers!

Welcome back and just welcome to any new readers we get, sorry I've been a little late with our first post this year, we've been busy!

Quick intro my name is Logan Keoughan and I am a fifth year middle/right side player, I am a BSc Environment and Natural Resources student, and I enjoy walks in the woods and sitting down to a lovely meal.

This year we started off with early exhibition play against York University, who finished top 4 in the OUA last year. First game was on a night, with an awesome crowd out to support us we swept York 3-0. We were really happy with this result, but still felt we had some areas of game to improve for the next match, particularly to maintain good passing, and better blocking against the York middles. We had a day off Saturday while York travelled to Halifax to play DAL, then resumed out matchup on Sunday afternoon. We stared off well with a first set win, then a close second set we lost 32-30. We came back to take the next to sets and the match. We felt like we adjusted and made steps on the things we outlined from game one, but lost some of our consistency. Overall it was a good weekend for us, and not just for wins, but for a test early in the year, and the learning that came out of it.

Now we're hard at work in practice and in the gym, getting ready for a next test against Winnipeg October 11th and 12th. The focus in practice is on intensity, testing ourselves and each other to try to give 100% on every play, to get into a game mindset against each other. You might wonder why I didn't give the cliche 110% effort, and I'll tell you why. I recently read an article that struck a chord with me, it essentially said that people who wanna give 110% don't understand what 100% is. 100% is literally all you have, every part of you totally committed. That's hard, and nearly impossible to do all the time. But you gotta push it, you have to reach for putting it all the line, all the time.

So after that little bit of intensity, come on out and support us October 11th & 12th against Winnipeg!

Talk to you soon!

Logan Keoughan