Boeve's Blog: Week 8

Iowa State senior volleyball player Erin Boeve will be writing a weekly blog this season to give Cyclone fans an insiders look at the happenings of the program, which last year advanced to the NCAA Tournament for just the second time in school history. Boeve, a middle blocker from Steen, Minn., became the first Cyclone to earn AVCA All-American Honorable Mention honors a year ago. She also was the first ISU volleyballer to be named first-team All-Big 12 and the league's Co-Defensive Player of the Year. A preseason All-Big 12 selection this year, Boeve is the school's record holder for career block assists and owns the top-two single seasons in school history as well.

October 1, 2007

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Hello again to all the Iowa State volleyball fans! I can't believe it is the end of another week, and also the end of another month. I thought this week would go a little slower since we didn't have a match on Wednesday, but that wasn't the case at all.

The week of practice started out on Monday, followed by a session of lifting. During season, we lift twice a week for about a half hour at a time. These days are usually Mondays and Thursdays because we never lift a day before a match. Lifting usually consist of 4-5 lifts including upper and lower body along with shoulder exercises, core work and stretching.

On Tuesday, we were given the day off of practice. It was a great day to relax the bodies and catch up on some school work. On Tuesday night, all student-athletes were required to attend a seminar put on by Student-Athlete Services. The guest speakers discussed how to be successful in the transition from being a student-athlete to being out in the working world. It was a very beneficial speech especially for me as that time is right around the corner.

Wednesday and Thursday we were back in the gym practicing for our match on Saturday. Our focus this week was making good offensive decisions and working on our shot selections. We also continued to work on passing as that is always an important part of the game.

On Friday, we had a full afternoon of traveling. We left Ames at 2 p.m. for the Des Moines airport. We flew to Dallas and had a couple hour layover before we caught our flight to Lubbock. We arrived in Lubbock at about 9 p.m. Once we got our luggage, the vans and checked into the motel, it was time for bed!

Saturday morning turned out to be a busy one. The match got moved to 1 p.m., because of the Texas Tech football game on Saturday night. This meant that we needed to watch film and get a quick practice in before the match. We did just that and had about 20 minutes to spare in between practice and our pre-game meeting with the coaches to run over our game plan. This schedule seemed to work out alright for us as we came away with the win in four games. We are now 4-1 in the Big 12!!!

We are finally home again this Wednesday night against Kansas at 6:30 p.m., in Hilton! Come check it out!

Go State!!
Erin Boeve

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