"At the Net" - with Shay Gracy

1-0 IN CONFERENCE!! What a great feeling it is!!! We won last night against Texas Womens in five sets. It was awesome!!! We played so hard!! I can't explain how much emotion was out on the court last night!!! We went into that game knowing that we were going to have to earn every point - and we did. If TWU went on a roll, we did not let that bother us - we simply just kept FIGHTING!!! The atmosphere was awesome in the gym. It was so loud at times it was hard to hear the back row telling the front row where they should hit the ball. I loved it though; I would take a loud gym and have to struggle to hear my teammate any day.

TWU is a good team and I will not take that away from them. We just played extremely hard. Our serve-receive was amazingly consistent. The offense was outstanding. That was the first match that we had all five hitters going and everyone was putting the ball down. Our defense was in incredible also. The block was touching balls that we hadn’t been touching all year and our back row were digging balls that hadn’t been dug all year. At last night's game, simply everything was flowing and that allowed us to come out with a win.

We came out with the mentality that if we want to win, we have to earn it. I would say - WE EARNED IT!!! That same mentality is going to have to come out on Saturday when we face TAMU-Commerce. Commerce won as well last night and so they are going to be on the same high that we are on. We are going to need to come out disciplined and ready to earn another victory.

Thank you again fans, cheerleaders, and plowboys for all your support!! Ya'll were awesome last night!!! Come out Saturday at 2 p.m. when we play Commerce!! It’s another BIG GAME!! Autographs after the game as well!!

Go TSU!!
Shay