This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag.com’s weekly look at 10 things in high school volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday until the last high school state championship in November.
Tawa’s High School Volleyball Dots
This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag.com’s weekly look at 10 things in high school volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday until the last high school state championship in November.
• On Oct. 7 and 8, Paragon Marketing Group put on the Second Annual GEICO Girls Volleyball Invitational.
Last year’s inaugural four-team event, which eventual national champion Marymount of Los Angeles won over Hamilton of Arizona, was held in Chandler, Arizona.
This year’s four-team event was held near Omaha at Papillion-La Vista South High School and featured the host Titans, Ponte Vedra of the Jacksonville area, Skyview of Idaho and undefeated Cathedral Catholic of San Diego, the consensus No. 1 team in the nation.
Cathedral Catholic (31-0) won the event, sweeping Ponte Vedra, the Florida 6A runner up a year ago; in one semifinal. The Dons then swept Papio South (23-5) in the championship match. Papillion-La Vista South was 40-0 a year ago and won the Nebraska Class A title.
“They were by far the No. 1 team we’ve played all season,” said Titan coach Katie Tarman. “They were an impressive team with weapons in all places.”
• Paragon started in 1995, but gained traction in high school sports when it put LeBron James and his St. Vincent-St. Mary team on ESPN in 2002 against renowned boys basketball power Oak Hill Academy. Since then it has placed a lot of high school sport events on ESPN, mostly good, though it was responsible for scheduling IMG against the sham high school, Bishop Sycamore, last year in football.
Fortunately, the reviews from Paragon’s first two years dabbling in high school volleyball have been positive. And the ESPN exposure has been very welcome for the most popular high school sport for girls in the United States.
• Papillion–La Vista South almost wasn’t part of the Volleyball Invitational. Tarman, a teacher at the school, said that she gets so many spam emails that she routinely deletes those that she doesn’t immediately recognize. That’s how she came to delete Paragon’s first two missives this past spring.
The third email Tarman…
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